Sustainable Marine Energy

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Sustainable Marine Energy
SAMS Blue Energy Research Applying science
excellence to overcome the barriers to
sustainable marine renewable energy
Tidal-stream, Wind Wave Energy
Policy
Collision Risks1 Mammals Fish Birds Modelling
Behaviour Acoustic warning
Oceanography Turbulent mixing Hydrodynamic
modelling Resource mapping Energy shadows
MPAs
Spatial Planning
Research strategy6,7
Fishery exclusion
Acoustic footprints3,4 Prediction Measurement
Mitigation
Artificial structures5 Reefs Colonisation
Fisheries enhancement
Wildlife displacement2
Biofuels Macro-algae (seaweeds)
Digestion
Energy Production8
Fuel
Harvesting
Cultivation
Species / strain selection
Scale-up
Processing
Waste management
Environment Impacts8
Exclusion
Ecosystem effects Benthic Pelagic
Eutrophication
Biofuels Micro-algae
Fish nurseries
Biodiesel
Energy Production8
Harvesting

• Ongoing projects
• Equimar Equitable testing evaluation of
  marine energy
• extraction devices in terms of performance, cost
  and environmental
• Impact, EC FP7 (Batty)
• 2. Estimates of collision risk of harbour
  porpoises and marine renewable
• devices at sites of high tidal stream energy,
  Scottish Gov (Wilson)
• 3. Use of acoustic devices to warn marine
  mammals of tidal-stream
• renewable energy devices, Scottish Gov (Wilson)
• 4. Underwater acoustic interactions between
  emerging tidal energy
• technologies and vulnerable vertebrates,
  SNH-SEPA (Wilson)
• 5. Oceans 2025, WP 4.6 Linking habitat
  complexity size diversity to the
• delivery of ecosystem services NERC (Wilding)
• 6. NERC Scoping study Proof of concept for
  marine bioenergy (Stanley)

Optimal growth for lipid production
Species / strain selection
Fatty acids
Reactor technology
Environment Impacts8
Waste management
Carbon capture
Water resources
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