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Water Velocity and Turbulence Data from Sequim Bay, WA, 2016 2025

Collection of publishable datasets from bottom-lander deployments of acoustic Doppler instrumentation in Sequim Bay, WA measured between 2016 and 2025. These data primarily consist of water velocity measurements from ADCPs deployed by PNNL in both the inlet and the bay itself. R...
Harding, S. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jul 12, 2016
10 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

CalWave Open Water Demonstration PTO Belt Assessment & Test Report Public

PTO (Power Take-Off) belt test and analysis report conducted under CalWave's Open Water Demonstration Award EE0008097 Belt Tradeoffs for Winch PTO. The report tests two types of belts: a high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) woven fiber belt and a steel cable polyurethane belt. The goa...
Kojimoto, N. and Boerner, T. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.
May 28, 2021
1 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

TEAMER: Sandia and CalWave Torque Spring Assessment

Power-take-off (PTO) systems for wave energy converters (WEC) require restoring forces for efficient hydrodynamic as well as mechanical to electric power transfer. Implementation of an effective spring mechanism that can provide a restoring torque on e.g. a rotational, winch type ...
Boerner, T. et al CalWave Power Technologies Inc.
Apr 01, 2022
3 Resources
0 Stars
Awaiting release

TEAMER: Acoustic Characterization of ORPC Device Sound Signatures Public Report and Data

This submission contains a public Post Access Report documenting drifting acoustic measurements near ORPC river turbines, an archive of associated report figures in MATLAB .fig format with embedded data, and a MATLAB script for extracting data from those figures. Drifting acoustic...
Polagye, B. et al University of Washington
Dec 14, 2025
4 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Reports on Wave and Tidal Energy Cost Reduction and Performance Improvement Opportunities

This submission contains two resources developed by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in 2025 for the U.S. Department of Energy/Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). The study identifies near-term opportunities to reduce costs and improve performance in wave and tidal current energy syst...
Yüzügüllü, E. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
May 27, 2025
2 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Accelerated Lifetime Testing of Main Shaft Seals for Tidal Turbine Rotors

The lifetime assessment experimental platform described in this report is specifically designed for testing the low-speed main shaft seal for Verdant Power's (Verdant Power Inc., New York, New York) fifth-generation (Gen5) underwater power generation turbine. This project is joint...
Murray, R. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jul 01, 2024
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

TEAMER: Investigation of Alternate Material Design Methods in WPS Ballast and Hull Systems

Data, results and final report from a study on the use of alternative materials in a floating, two-body Wave Power System (WPS). This study was focused on introduction of fiber-reinforced polymer and concrete in structural elements of the subject WPS, as well as the design and per...
Veilleux, M. et al Cardinal Engineering
Apr 22, 2025
3 Resources
1 Stars
Curated

WEC Controls Optimization Final Report

The over-arching project objective is to fully develop and validate optimal controls frameworks that can subsequently be applied widely to different WEC devices and concepts. Optimal controls of WEC devices represent a fundamental building block for WEC designers that must be cons...
Previsic, M. and Karthikeyan, A. Re Vision Consulting
Aug 26, 2020
1 Resources
0 Stars
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Unobtrusive Multi-static Serial LiDAR Imager (UMSLI) Dataset

The dataset contains the data from the field deployment of the Unobtrusive Multi-static Serial LiDAR Imager (UMSLI) system at PNNL-Sequim test site in 2017. The dataset contains scanning of manmade models of baracuda and turtles as well as technical target placed in the field of v...
Dalgleish, F. and Ouyang, B. Florida Atlantic University
Sep 22, 2023
9 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

TEAMER: OSU X Hinsdale & Sandia LUPA System Identification

This submission is part of a TEAMER testing campaign through RFTS 7 at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon. This testing was conducted by Oregon State University (OSU) and Sandia National Laboratories in October and November 2023. The Laboratory Upgrade...
Robertson, B. et al Oregon State University
Oct 19, 2023
4 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Characterization for Creek Tides Energy and Power Reversible Blade Turbine

Reactive reversible blade turbine (RRBT) is a new technology which provides a solution to hydro-power generation from slow-moving currents such as rivers, tides, and oceans. It features blades that pivot to capture the maximum force of the water current and then pivot again to a n...
Curet, O. Florida Atlantic University
Sep 17, 2024
2 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Advanced TidGen Power System System Fabrication Plan

The TidGen Power System generates emission-free electricity from tidal currents and connects directly into existing grids using smart grid technology. The power system consists of three major subsystems: shore-side power electronics, mooring system, and turbine generator unit (TGU...
Marnagh, C. Ocean Renewable Power Company
Jun 14, 2018
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

CalWave WEC Holistic PTO Design

This project aims to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of CalWave’s commercial scale Power Take-Off (PTO) subsystem through further increasing the level of coupling in physical PTO and concurrent controls design. This is achieved by incorporating a systematic holistic...
Boerner, T. et al CalWave Power Technologies Inc.
Sep 02, 2022
5 Resources
0 Stars
Awaiting release

Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, OR Site Selection Evaluation

Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center Project fishing vessel charter survey and South Energy Test Site (SETS) selection evaluation report.
Hellin, D. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center
Jun 29, 2016
2 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Cone Penetration Tests at the PacWave South Test Site

This ZIP archive contains cone penetration test data from the PacWave South Test Site. The data were collected in September 2023 aboard the ship Seacor Lee operating out of the Port of Newport, OR. The tests were performed by ConeTec using an AP van den Berg ROSON-100. The cone it...
Evans, M. Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)
Sep 07, 2023
6 Resources
1 Stars
Publicly accessible

TEAMER: Tidal Currents Turbine Parametric Study Flow, Power, Torque, and Energy Optimization

This is an exercise in optimizing the flow through a shrouded axial turbine to have the least resistance and to have optimal output and torque and energy. In this study, different variations of the original geometry of the current turbine designed by Hydrokinetic Energy Corp. (HEC...
Schurtenberger, W. and Ge, Z. Hydrokinetic Energy Corp.
Jul 30, 2021
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Optimal kite control in spatiotemporally varying flow fields ACC 2021

Two papers submitted (and accepted) to the 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), both focused on different attributes of kite control in variable flow environments. Siddiqui et. al. focuses on tether elevation angle control in a spatiotemporally varying environment, and Reed et....
Vermillion, C. et al North Carolina State University
Sep 14, 2020
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

DAISY Acoustic Measurements in Agate Pass, WA

Acoustic data and metadata from Drifting Acoustic Instrumentation SYstem (DAISY) testing in Agate Pass (separating the north end of Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound), WA in April 2022. The goal was to characterize radiated noise from a cross-flow turbine d...
Polagye, B. et al University of Washington
Apr 20, 2022
3 Resources
1 Stars
Publicly accessible

HERO WEC 2024 Hydraulic Configuration Deployment Data

The following submission includes raw and processed data from the in water deployment of NREL's Hydraulic and Electric Reverse Osmosis Wave Energy Converter (HERO WEC), in the form of parquet files, TDMS files, CSV files, bag files and MATLAB workspaces. This dataset was collected...
Jenne, S. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mar 14, 2024
9 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Experimental Performance of a Laboratory-Scaled Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter

This data is a subset of the data from an experimental campaign (https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/603) to characterize the hydrodynamics and performance of a laboratory-scale oscillating surge wave energy converter (OSWEC). The device was 85 cm wide, 1.4 meters tall, and 14 cm...
Polagye, B. et al University of Washington
Sep 26, 2024
3 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

TEAMER: Assessing Structural Integrity of a Self-Reactive Point Absorber Subjected to Extreme Sea Conditions

This submission contains the numerical modeling data and analysis results generated for the structural integrity assessment of a self-reactive two-body point absorber wave energy converter (WEC) designed by the University of Michigan. The dataset includes hydrodynamic outputs from...
Zhang, S. et al University of Michigan
Jul 30, 2025
1 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

TEAMER: Vertical Axies Hydrokinetic Turbine Data, Emrgy Inc. 2022, Post Access Submission

The data herein contains all data collected and used for the Performance Characterization Testing and Model Calibration of a Vertical Axis Hydrokinetic Turbine. The data includes performance data and durability data for the Hydrokinetic Turbine. The device performance data contain...
Cuthbert, T. Emrgy, Inc.
Apr 06, 2022
5 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

ALFA Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics/Discrete Element Method Modeling System

The HDIS/COUPi discrete element method modeling system was used to simulate the interaction between various debris and the Research Debris Diversion Platform (RDDP)
DUVOY, P. University of Alaska Fairbanks
Nov 29, 2016
11 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

TEAMER: DAISY Variant and Tether Tests, Admirality Inlet, WA

Acoustic data and metadata from Drifting Acoustic Instrumentation SYstem (DAISY) testing in Admiralty Inlet (connecting Puget Sound to the Strait of San Juan de Fuca) in July 2022. Tests focused on occurrences of flow noise for three hydrophone package variants and on the potentia...
Crisp, C. et al University of Washington
Jul 14, 2022
6 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Control of an AUV with deployable energy-harvesting kite

This paper examines the control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with a deployable energy-harvesting kite for oceanographic observation and surveillance. The proposed design and control strategies specifically address objectives of achieving high-payload, long-endurance A...
Reed, J. et al North Carolina State University
Sep 02, 2019
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible
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