Edinburgh Designs will be building a bespoke current and wave tank for the Stony Brook University.
The tank will feature our first production Wet Back Piston Wavemaker. The machine will 1.5 x 1.5m and is designed to operate in depths up to 1m.
The tank will have glass sides to allow observation of experiments and stainless steel base trays.
Edinburgh Designs are extremely proud to unveil our new tank at the National Museum of Scotland.
This tank will showcase our technology to thousands of people per week and hopefully inspire the engineers of the future.
The tank is featured in the BBC’s coverage of the 10 new exhibitions.
We have installed seven paddles into a highly specialized flood certification facility for Aquobex Ltd.
The facility will be British Standards Institution certified and will be used for flood doors and other defenses.
The BSI test requires 30 minutes of constant waves. This tank does not have any beach so reflections are extremely high!
Because of Edinburgh Designs unique force feedback technology, the tank stays stable indefinitely.
Without our technology, this tank would not have been possible.
Edinburgh Designs offer an upgrade service that brings older machines up to our current state of the art software.
We recently visited the Ifremer Wave Current Circulation tank to upgrade the software and inspect the wavemaker.
Our software is constantly evolving to include new features, general improvements and support new operating systems.
One particularly notable feature is the brand new Analysis package. This tool provides an intuitive graphical tools for analysing experiments.
Edinburgh Designs have just started construction of a brand new wave exhibition for the National Museum of Scotland.
The tank will have two flap paddles at each end and has been designed to create mesmerizing wave effects.
It will feature the largest pieces of glass that Edinburgh Designs have ever used with dimensions of 4 x 1m.
The all new Energy Laboratory will be unveiled on the 8th of July 2016.
Edinburgh Designs have completed a new towing tank laboratory at the Bergen HIB. The tank has six 1.2 m hinge depth flaps and has a wire driven carriage capable of 5 m/s.
More information on the Edinburgh Designs turnkey solution can be found on our portfolio page.
The Wave Energy Prize is a public competition run by the United States Department of Energy. It aims to deliver game changing performance developments and entice new players to develop new Wave Energy Converters (WECs).
Entrants are competing for three cash prizes, with a maximum payout of $1.5M, following successful testing at the MASK basin.
Edinburgh Designs tanks are being used by entrants to the Wave Energy Prize to test their designs:
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey
Wind/Wave Lab, University of Maine
MASK Basin, US Navy, Carderock
Many pictures of the competitors at Edinburgh Designs tanks are available here.
And videos of other Wave Energy Developers Testing In Edinburgh Designs Tanks
Edinburgh designs have successfully installed sixteen 1.8m hinge depth flap paddle wave makers to the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) new W2 – Wind/Wave – tank.
The tank has a 32 fan array for simulating wind on offshore structures such as wind turbines.
The tank has been featured in a major newspaper
Edinburgh Designs have successfully installed eight paddles at a new towing tank at the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.
The tank has been featured in the Poland at Sea magazine.
Edinburgh Designs equipment forms the centerpiece of the new state-of-the-art maritime facility at University College Cork’s Beaufort Building. Edinburgh Designs have supplied 16 x 2.5m flap wavemakers for a deep water flume, along with a hydraulic movable floor. A coastal flume has been fitted with 8 x 0.7m flap wavemakers in a movable module which allows tank water depth to be varied. The third basin, the Ocean Wave Basin, will have wave generation provided by by the relocated 40 x 0.7m flap wavemaker originally built by Edinburgh Designs for UCC in 1993.
The building situated in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork and was officially opened by Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.
The facility was featured in the Irish Times and the Irish Examiner.