Energy: bridges to a sustainable future

This section focuses on three essential pillars: Oil and Gas, highlighting innovations and challenges in extraction and processing; Marine and Inland Waterway Terminals, addressing the importance of these infrastructures in the energy supply chain; and Energy Transition / New Energies, exploring the move towards renewable sources and sustainable solutions. This compendium seeks to inform, inspire and provoke reflection on the global energy present and future, highlighting the interconnection between tradition and innovation on the road to sustainability.

Industrial Transformation: Exploring New Horizons and Success Stories in Construction, Mining and Aerospace

Explore the Industry section, where technical articles delve into Construction, Mining and Aerospace, highlighting innovations, challenges and opportunities. Designed to offer insights into the evolution toward efficiency, sustainability and technological advancement, this area highlights the path of innovation and progress in the industrial arena.

Construction

Mining

Aerospace

Vanguard in Mechanical Integrity: A Commitment to Excellence

Explore Mechanical Integrity: a comprehensive guide to asset durability and safety through advanced techniques and non-destructive testing. We provide in-depth engineering, regulatory, reliability, and corrosion solutions, supported by case studies and state-of-the-art technology to optimize industrial performance.

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

Corrosion and Materials

Study cases

Technology

Leading with Efficiency: Integrated Management Strategies

Dive into our Management section, where we cover everything from quality to innovation in talent management, operations, and safety. With a focus on soft skills, financial and project management, this area offers insights and strategies to lead teams and projects to success, ensuring a safe work environment and promoting operational excellence in the dynamic business world.

Human Talent Management

Operations Management

Health and Safety Management

Environmental Management

Financial Management

Connect and Grow: Joining Voices in the Inspenet Community

Within the vibrant Inspenet community, we invite you to explore a collaborative space full of forums, podcasts, and newsletters. Dive into the Inspenet Wall, discover our Inspenet Brief magazine, and connect with exclusive content from allies and partners. This section is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, strengthening your professional network and enriching your career in the industry.

Content from Contributors

Secrets of energy generation with these efficient underwater turbines

Inspenet.

Published: March 27, 2023

Share on social networks

Inspenet, March 27, 2023

The Brazilian company Tidalwatt has developed underwater turbines that can be much more efficient than traditional wind turbines. A single turbine can generate clean energy for 22,000 homes.

According to Maurício Queiroz, founder and CEO of the Tidalwatt startup, when the energy source is predictable and constant, as is the exclusive case of the ocean, it can be said that this source guarantees energy security.

In this way, the ocean is the only clean and safe source of energy. Ocean currents are already extensively mapped around the world, so they already know several locations for the installation of these underwater turbines.

Torobo El robot carpintero hecho en Japon que puede cortar y martillar la madera

Unete a nuestra Masterclass gratuita sobre Sistemas de Gestion de la Calidad sgc

Avances en la Energia Nuclear Espacial del Reino Unido

Cientificos trabajan en un robot serpiente para la inspeccion de tuberias 2

HKIC y Galbot desarrollaran la IA en el mercado

Torobo: The made-in-Japan carpenter robot that can cut and hammer wood

Join our free Masterclass on Quality Management Systems!

Rolls-Royce gets National Space Innovation Program funding for space nuclear power breakthroughs

Scientists work on snake robot for pipeline inspection

HKIC and Galbot sign agreement to boost artificial intelligence industry in Hong Kong

The product is uniquely designed to capture the hydrokinetic energy associated with underwater currents. Unlike wind turbines, this technology is not based on wind or aeronautical mechanisms, which lose energy between the blades of the wind turbine, but rather continuously captures the energy generated by currents.

Queiroz explains that an underwater turbine of 3 m. in diameter, it has the capacity to generate 5 MW of power at a current of 1.87 knots, practically the same power as a 180 m diameter wind turbine. In this way, the turbine with a diameter 60 times smaller, generates the same power. In addition, due to the availability of the source, a wind turbine generates energy 90% of the time, that is, being 3,600 times smaller in coverage area, since the startup’s wind turbines can generate 3 times more energy.

The startup plans to install its turbines in locations with average current speeds greater than 1 knot, generating 5 MW with a turbine capacity ranging between 70 and 95%. Considering the average energy consumption of Brazilian homes, Queiroz says that each of these turbines can serve around 22,800 families.

The company is also focused on protecting marine life, as the installation sites have been chosen far from coral reefs to protect the surrounding ecosystems, avoiding bottom trawling on the ocean floor. In addition to the foundations of some wind turbine plants, artificial reefs will be formed to allow various marine species to live and breed safely there.

Source : https://clickpetroleoegas.com.br/empresa-desenvolve-turbina-subaquatica-60-vezes-menor-que-produz-3-vezes-mais-energia-que-as-turbinas-eolicas-tradicionais/

Image: Tidalwatt

Don’t miss the Inspenet News at: https://inspenet.com/inspenet-tv/