Research projects & collaboration
The LHEEA is involved in many research projects and collaborations.
MARINE ENERGY ALLIANCE
The Marine Energy Alliance aims to progress the combined technical and commercial maturity level of 40 SMEs by delivering a suite of bespoke integrated technical and commercial services.
OCEAN DEMO
FLOAWER
FLOAting Wind Energy netwoRk (FLOAWER) is an Innovative Training Network (ITN), a European project that brings together leading academics and industry leaders in the offshore wind industry, and floating wind turbines in particular. Its goal is to strengthen the leadership and competitiveness of this industry in Europe.
FLOATECH
Launched in January 2021 for a duration of 3 years and coordinated by TU Berlin, FLOATECH is a European H2020 project bringing together five public research institutions, including Centrale Nantes and its LHEEA research lab, with relevant expertise in offshore floating wind energy and three industrial partners involved in the most recent developments of floating wind systems.
Blue-GIFT
The Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) is a coordinated ocean energy technology demonstration programme encouraging longer-term demonstration and technology de-risking across the Atlantic Area regions. This €2.5 million project is funded by Interreg Atlantic Area. A series of test site access vouchers will be offered to successful applicants to support testing of devices and subsystems at the following test centres including the SEM-REV.
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MaRINET 2
FLOATGEN
Construction work on the floating foundation took place between 2016 and 2017 in Saint Nazaire. It was inaugurated on 2017 October 13th and was installed on the Centrale Nantes offshore test site, SEM-REV, on April 2018 to perform all tests in real conditions. Since September 2018, the Floatgen wind turbine has been exporting kWh to the power grid.
SARAH
FORESEA
Two new technologies were tested at the SEM-REV offshore test site in 2017, developed by Geps Techno and Pytheas Technology.
LHEEA is currently involved in several industrial chairs and partnerships:
- Bureau Veritas - Centrale Nantes Chair in hydrodynamics and marine structures
- Mann+Hummel - Centrale Nantes Chair: “Innovative intake systems and thermo-management”
- "System Modeling for the Control and Development of Internal Combustion Engines", Centrale Nantes/Renault/LMS A SIEMENS BUSINESS Chair
- Joint Laboratory of Marine Technology, Naval Group, Sirehna, Centrale Nantes
- Stellantis & Centrale Nantes R&D programme dedicated to digital simulation techniques for powertrain design
- MAN Energy Solutions - Centrale Nantes Chair
- HyMot project to decarbonise light commercial vehicles
- Centrale Nantes & Siemens Digital Industries Software chair on numerical simulation applied to fluid mechanics
- MERVENT 2025 project: Construction of the first hybrid sail/synthetic fuel powered container ship
See also the research projects carried out by each team
Published on March 22, 2017
Updated on March 7, 2023
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