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Subhub Completes High Flow Installation Trials

4C Offshore | Richard Harrod
By: Richard Harrod 16/11/2015 QED Naval
Recent testing of the Subhub operations model in high tidal flow conditions proved its ballast system capabilities and installation and retrieval methodology with great success. QED Naval were able to install the model on the seabed safely and in a controlled manner within minutes. The model was then secured on the seabed overnight before being recovered to the surface gracefully within an equally short time period and control.
 
Despite onerous wind, wave and current conditions experienced during testing, the Subhub coped admirably during the installation and retrieval trials.  Scaling these extreme conditions to the prototype size, based on a 4.0m diameter turbine, would be equivalent to over 2m/s or 4 knots with a significant wave heights over 1.0m
 
Frontal profiles of turbine blades were added to the cross beam to simulate three turbines being installed on the Subhub; the blades acting against the current presented no issues.

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