PUBLICATIONS

Please find below a selection of our published papers about our Venturi Enhanced Turbine Technology:

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• Benham G.P., Hewitt I. J., Please C. P., Bird P. A. D. (2018) Optimal control of diffuser shapes for non-uniform flow. Journal of Engineering Mathematics. Volume 113, Issue 1, pp 65–92.

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• P. A. D. Bird, P. Roberts, G. Benham, S. Downie and A. Castrejon-Pita, (2017) 'VETT’– Reducing the Cost of Tidal Power Generation, Proc 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 27th Aug - 1st Sept 2017, Cork, Ireland.

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• Roberts, P and Daly, T. (2014) "Venturi Enhanced Turbine Technology" Presented at the International Conference on Ocean Energy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 4-6/11/2014

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• P.A.D. Bird and P.M. Roberts. (2013) 'VETT‘ – A New Approach to Very Low Head Tidal Power Generation" 10th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference. Aalborg, Denmark, 2-5/09/2013.

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• Bruijn, Q.A.A de., Vis, H., and Kemper, J.H. (2013) "Test of fish survivability of the "Venturi Enhanced Turbine Technology"' Report VA2013_33

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• Sinclair, W. (2013) "VerdErg VETT Fish Testing Programme - 3rd Party Accreditation of Test on fish survivability of prototype VETT venturi" University of Cumbria

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• P.M. Roberts, P.A. D. Bird, R.A. Kettle and N. Copsey. (2011) "Potential of SMEC to Reinforce Coastal Defence Economics"

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• Germain, G., Bahaj, A.D., Huxley-Reynard, C. and Roberts, P. (2007) "Facilities for marine current energy converter characterization" 7th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Porto, Portugal. 11-13/09/2007.

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