Kymaner

Kymaner, is an engineering company that was created in 2005 specialised in the Oscillating Water Column (OWC) technology. Aggregating industry originated and university experts, most with more than 30 years of work in the fields of hydropower and wave energy, Kymaner represents a unique setup for the delivery of solutions in the field of Wave Energy. This experience has been demonstrated to clients and partners with renowned success. The service areas of Kymaner correspond to its areas of expertise: from Project Management to Systems Design and Supply Chain Development, including Operation and Maintenance. Kymaner, is developing a new type of radial self-rectifying air turbine, a Biradial turbine named KymanAIR that is expected to exceed in efficiency all the known air turbine concepts for use is Oscillating Water Column installations. Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations predict a peak efficiency of 81%. A program of model testing with a rotor of 0.5m diameter is being carried on. The KymanAIR - Biradial turbine is an innovative self-rectifying impulse turbine that substantially differs from all previous concepts. It is very compact axially, mechanically simple and reliable and shows a wide operating range capability with unmatched efficiency. Kymaner sets the new limit to the exploration of high efficiency OWC floating systems either as single system WECs or as complementary solutions integrated in offshore windpower converters.