Wave Tank Package

Wave Tank Package: €75,000

Accurate for education and research. Single design, continually refined.
Minimal floor space required. Convenient to move, assemble and dismantle.

We offer a complete wave tank package to best meet most needs of ocean research laboratories for unlimited in-house testing. It is low-cost, because the design and manufacturing process is repeated and refined. Versatile because it is modular and movable. 

THE NEED

Large tank test facilities were only accessible by those organisations that could justify long, once-off capital projects. Many more organisations need tank test time. Occasional access to centralised wave basin facilities is not adequate.
• Cost; with daily rates c.$3k only very limited test time is affordable.
• Practicality; transport and schedule difficulties make it difficult to access.

So we have developed a range of wave tank module design so you can have unlimited access to in-house tank testing.

OUR SOLUTION

Organisations buy our wave tank packages for:
• Credibility; having an in-house capability demonstrates your ability to show results, and win backing.
• Clarity; theoretical design speculation can be substantiated or eliminated early reducing time and investment wasted in dead-ends.
• Coverage; with unlimited testing the broadest battery of tests can be performed.
• Cost; much of the doubt is removed before moving to costly high-end facilities.
• Confidence; tank demonstrations build confidence of funders.

SCALE & DIMENSIONS
Our wave tank design is the best use of standard materials, manufacturing and transport constraints, while still meeting most wave flume test needs.
 
The design is nominally pitched in the range of 1:50th to 1:100th scale of North Atlantic seas, with working width of 2.5m, and nominal working depth of 1.3m. Being modular, any tank length can be setup.

The tank modules are designed for convenience, and versatility. Tank modules are shipped from stock, by shipping container.  
Each module incorporates steel feet to distribute the weight of the full tank adequately for most concrete floors (0.12MPa).
The wave maker requires a conventional single phase 240v AC or three phase 208v power supply.
WAVE MAKER 
The ability to create a known wave climate in a tank environment repeatedly provides a wealth of insight when studying linear and non-linear interactions.  
 
To complement the range of tank modules OMEY offers a dry-back, hinged paddle wave maker module. Actuated by a high quality planetary gear lead screw actuator and assisted by pneumatic air springs, the wave maker is able to produce a wide range of wave conditions with high quality orbital particle motion.
  • Type; dry-back, hinged paddle. 
  • Peak; 0.2m Hmax, 0.5sec Tmin 
  • Dimensions; 2.5m wide, 300mm stroke, 1.25m deep 
  • Actuator; electrical linear planetary gear screw (Exclar) 
  • Spectra; regular and irregular waves (e.g. Bretschneider, Pierson-Moskowitz) 
  • Hydrostatic; pneumatic air spring providing zero K. 
  • Materials; stainless steel space frame paddle, rolling gusset seal
  • Control; closed loop
  • Power; single phase 240v 13A or three phase 208v 16A
WAVE TANK PACKAGE
OMEY’s wave tank range of modules can be combined to create a versatile wave flume for many teaching and research purposes. While any of the modules can be combined to create a wave tank to meet your needs, OMEY offers a wave tank design that offers everything you need in a single bundle
  • Working Depth: 1.33m
  • Working Width: 2.5m
  • Working Length: 3-4m
  • Wave height: c0.2m
  • Wave period: >0.5s
  • Overall length: 12.13m
  • Overall width: 3.2m
  • Overall height: 1.76m
  • Power: 240v AC 13A, 208v AC 16A 3phase
OMEY now build the tank modules to order, to meet the customer requirements (quantities, sizes, power etc).

  • Unloading

    Shipped to North Caroline by standard shipping container. 

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  • Moved into place

    Rolled into place by pallet truck and bolted together. 

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  • Precise fit

    Fit into the lab with just 1" to spare. 

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  • Filling

    Filled with fresh water from a fire hydrant in 1 hour. 

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TESTIMONIAL
We really wanted to add a wave tank to the research and education facility at CSI, but we didn’t have the budget or space for a full wave basin. So, when we found OMEY’s offering with a fixed price, it was a perfect fit for our existing lab.”
Prof. Billy Edge

UNC-CSI undertake research, education and community outreach programs. They wanted to have in-house wave tank facilities, to enhance teaching and awareness of wave mechanics, and to allow research prototypes to be tested. However there was limited space and limited budget.
 
UNC-CSI completed a competitive evaluation of OMEY’s offering. No other company was able to deliver a complete wave tank within budget. UNC-CSI placed their order, and OMEY Labs Ltd shipped a complete wave tank by shipping container. It took six weeks for the shipment to be completed from OMEY’s facility in Ireland to the client in North Carolina, USA.
 
OMEY’s technicians arrived on Monday with a detailed method statement. A 2.5T forklift move the tank modules near the building where they were manually pushed into the lab on skates.
 
Each module was sealed using the bolted flange and a solid silicone bead. No messy compounds were needed or time for seal curing. By Wednesday afternoon the complete watertight tank was ready to be filled from a nearby fire hydrant taking just 40mins. This was a rare opportunity to demonstrate a standing wave, before the wave absorber was lifted into place.
 
In just three days a complete wave tank was installed and commissioned with just 2” of spare room at either end of the completed wave tank.
 
UNC-CSI were able to bring in-house wave tank testing capabilities although their budget and laboratory space was very limited. Their lab now enables staff and students to run tests at say 1:70th scale in regular, irregular and random wave conditions, something normally reserved for organisations with budget for a major capital project.

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