Watch HHL Freemantle install a bioWAVE Bio Power System off the coast of Australia.
Hansa Heavy Lift is a global tramp carrier specializing in the ocean transport of project, heavy lift, and super heavy lift cargoes .
With a fleet of 19 fully owned multipurpose heavy lift vessels that have state-of-the-art equipment including cranes with a combined lifting capacity of up to 1400 metric tons.
Hansa heavy lift has a in-house team of naval architects, structural engineers and welding engineers with shipyard, offshore and installation backgrounds developing customized solutions.
Bio Power Systems bioWAVETM is being developed for utility-scale power production from ocean waves. Its nature-inspired design (biomimicry) combines high conversion efficiency with the ability to avoid excessive wave forces, enabling supply of grid-connected electricity at a competitive price per MWh.
The bioWAVETM is designed to operate in ocean swell waves, absorbing energy both at the surface and below. It is a bottom-mounted pitching device, which spans the full depth. The bioWAVETM prototype currently under development will operate at a depth of 30m, while the planned 1MW commercial model will operate where the depth is 40-45m.
The energy capture and conversion process for bioWAVETM has been confirmed through peer reviewed scientific research, extensive device testing at model-scale, and by measured results from dry-tests on our full-scale grid-connected O-DriveTM test module.
An ocean-based 250kW bioWAVETM demonstration project is currently under development at a grid-connected site with further plans in place to develop a 1MW demonstration, followed by multi-unit wave energy farms.
