About the project
As a research project within the Doctoral Centre for Advanced Electrical Power Engineering this project will investigate the impact of heterogeneous burial environments on the power flow capacity of high voltage submarine cables.
The UK government is targeting 40GW of offshore wind generation by 2030, enough to power every home in the UK. This power must be transmitted to land though high voltage submarine cables buried under the seabed. The power flow capacity of these cables is limited by the maximum operating temperature, and hence the ability of the system to dissipate heat generated by the cables is of paramount importance.
This project will investigate through simulation and laboratory experiments the heat dissipation in remediated and heterogeneous burial environments indicative of the real seabed, to provide insight into the accuracy of calculations used to determine power flow capacity, and to inform modelling considerations.
This is a highly interdisciplinary project, with a supervisory team from the Electrical power engineering group and the School of Ocean and Earth Science.
