Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/N020731/1
ClearSeas
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor SB Groom, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Remote Sensing Group
- Grant held at:
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Remote Sensing Group
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Remote Sensing & Earth Obs.
- Power generation
- Technol. for Environ. Appl.
- Abstract:
- Industries such as nuclear power stations and desalination plants bring in huge volumes of sea water for cooling or processing. This makes them vulnerable to 'severe marine ingress events' where seaweed, jellyfish or even schooling fish block intake and cause plant shutdown. For nuclear power plants, the financial implications of these shutdowns can run into millions of pounds per incident. EDF Energy, the client for this scoping project, has identified their inability to predict such events as an increasingly significant problem. Indeed, under climate change pressures, any increases in severe marine ingress events will not only compound cumulative financial loss, but also reduce energy availability to the national grid. EDF Energy and other industries relying on seawater intake currently have no methods in place to predict blockages from marine sources and must operate reactively rather than proactively. With over 100 recorded severe intake events at EDF stations across the UK and France over the past 10 years, this inability to predict events has proved to be ineffectual at preventing shutdowns and mitigating the associated financial losses. The objective of this project is to investigate the potential for a time series of satellite images showing sea-surface temperature and the colour of the sea to investigate the conditions that occur during sever ingress events. EDF Group will provide data on historic ingress events at coastal nuclear power stations in the UK and France The project will also use fishing vessel location data, in a similar manner to GPS data, to locate the fishing fleet and compare with known ingress events. The ultimate aim is to provide an early warning system for severe marine ingress (seaweed, jellyfish and fish) events at EDF Group's coastal power stations in the UK and France.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/N020731/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Innovation
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Follow on Fund Pathfinder
This grant award has a total value of £20,044
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Estate Costs | DA - Other Directly Allocated | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £5,807 | £3,665 | £7,512 | £2,126 | £531 | £403 |
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