Modulift Lifting Frame Used In Mocean Energy Prototype Testing
Aberdeen, UK-based wave power specialist Mocean Energy utilised a custom-made lifting frame from Poole, UK-based engineering company Modulift to help lift and lower a prototype 20-metre long, 38-tonne wave energy machine into the North Sea for its first ever sea-based
Aberdeen, UK-based wave power specialist Mocean Energy utilised a custom-made lifting frame from Poole, UK-based engineering company Modulift to help lift and lower a prototype 20-metre long, 38-tonne wave energy machine into the North Sea for its first ever sea-based test.
With the aid of the lifting frame the wave energy machine, called Blue X, has now undergone its first wet testing, load tests and ballast testing at Rosyth, Scotland.
Cameron McNatt, managing director and co-founder of Mocean Energy, outlined why it required a lifting frame, “Lifting is a critical operation for Blue X – the device is lifted on and off of transport, into and out of the water – sometimes over steep quaysides. And it’s complex – Blue X is a hinged machine that can be lifted in two configurations.
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