TY - DATA AB - The primary objective of this project is to develop a three-blade MHK rotor with low manufacturing and maintenance costs. The proposed program will design, fabricate and test a novel half-scale low cost, net shape fabricated single piece three-blade MHK rotor with integrated health management technology to demonstrate significant Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditures (OPEX) cost reductions due to the novel design and manufacturing process. The proposed project is divided into three major tasks: Task 1: Single Piece Three-blade Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) Rotor Full-Scale and Half-Scale Design; Task 2: Composite Manufacturing Trials and Half-Scale Prototype Rotor Fabrication; and Task 3: Material Characterization and Half-Scale Prototype Test and Evaluation. These three tasks include design and analysis of full-scale and half-scale three-blade rotor prototypes using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite-element analysis (FEA), demonstration of a novel half-scale net shape fabrication process, determination of a fatigue threshold composite strain allowable, three-blade rotor mold design, manufacture of half-scale rotor clam shell mold, three-blade rotor test fixture design and fabrication, development of final manufacturing and test plans, manufacture of the half-scale net shape composite single blade and three-blade prototypes, and test and evaluation of the half-scale rotor. AU - Wess, Dennis DB - Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - 10.15473/1643941 KW - Hydrokinetic KW - Composite Materials KW - Threshold Fatigue KW - Net Shape Fabrication KW - Test and Evaluation KW - Verdant Power KW - Gen5d KW - axial flow turbine KW - CEC KW - CFD KW - CAPEX KW - OPEX KW - economics KW - OVER-REL KW - FEA KW - CAD KW - fatigue test KW - rotor KW - three-blade KW - RITE KW - ADV KW - flow KW - visualization KW - FAST KW - simulation KW - modeling KW - strain KW - stress KW - fabrication KW - as-fabricated KW - KHPS KW - health management KW - VP KW - Kinetic Hydropower System KW - steady-state KW - transient LA - English DA - 2016/02/09 PY - 2016 PB - ARL Penn State T1 - Net Shape Fabricated Low Cost MHK Pass-Through the Hub Turbine Blades with Integrated Health Management Technology UR - https://doi.org/10.15473/1643941 ER -