New, stronger composites are currently being developed for tidal turbine blades. These innovative materials are fortified with carbon nanoparticles, nano-complexes and copolymers – some of which borrow from the natural world.
Innovative micro-textures that mimic fish scales are being employed to combat biofouling, which affects all tidal stream turbines.
A set of composite panels made from fibreglass and a gel-coat coating have been installed for testing at the HarshLab facility as part of the NEMMO Project.
In WP5 numerical methodologies for the design of new generation tidal blades will be developed. These numerical...
WP3 deals with the integration of new materials for the blades. These materials could be at nanometric scale inside the blade...