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TEAMER: CalWave xWave New Technology Qualification and Path to Certification Final Report

CalWave is developing a wave energy converter (WEC) called xWave, which operates fully submerged and is classified as a submerged pressure differential type. As ocean waves pass over the submerged wave buoy, a pressure differential is created, exciting the absorber in multiple deg...

Petcovic, D. and Zhang, S. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Oct 31, 2022
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2023 Risk Management Plan and Register for Low-Power WEC for Non-Grid Applications

This is an updated risk management plan and risk register for the design, build and test of a novel, remote, low-power wave energy converter (WEC) for non-grid applications. This Columbia Power Technologies project seeks to develop a prototype low-power WEC that lowers the total c...

Hammagren, E. et al Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

Jun 14, 2023
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CalWave Tank Testing Lir Deep Ocean Basin

Experimental tank testing report for CalWave's 1:20 & 1:30 scale prototype testing at the Lir National Ocean Test Facility in Ireland. Testing was completed in January 2018. Test report includes description of the scaled prototype, primary testing objectives, instrumentation and b...

Boerner, T. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Jan 15, 2018
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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
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CalWave WEC Open Water Demonstration Public Final Test Report

The objective of this project is to advance the Technology Readiness Level of the x1 Wave Energy Converter (WEC) developed by CalWave Power Technologies Inc. through advanced numerical simulations, dynamic hardware tests, and ultimately a scaled open water demonstration deployment...

Boerner, T. et al CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Nov 30, 2022
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ORPC TidGen Turbine Foil Production Process Technical Report

This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the production process for the first TidGen turbine. The turbine is composed of several key components, including carbon fiber foils, e-glass struts, and a steel shaft. The report covers the production of each of these elemen...

Barrington, M. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Jan 30, 2023
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TEAMER: Crossflow Turbine Fairing Geometry Optimization Report and CFD Modeling Files

The dataset includes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models and simulation files for crossflow turbines as well as a detailed project report. The report documents the project undertaken by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) to design and optimize a modular fairing for the...

McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Aug 08, 2024
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Direct-Drive Electrical Generator and PTO System for Flap-type Wave Energy Converters

Project and generator specifications and initial prototype test data for flap-type wave energy converters (WEC)

Englebretson, S. ABB Inc.

Mar 20, 2015
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CalWave Device Behavior in Different Sea States from Scaled Tank Testing

This submission contains a summary of tank test derived WEC device behavior in different irregular sea states. CalWave sought to conduct experimental tank testing of scaled prototype units early on in the design process to obtain a first estimation of device performance for sea ...

Boerner, T. and Murray, B. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Mar 30, 2018
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TEAMER: Original HANNA Mono-Radial Turbine Post Access Report

Final report on a TEAMER RFTS 2 (request for technical support) study undertaken by Alden Research Laboratory for the Mono-radial turbine invented by John Clark Hanna DBA: Hanna Wave Energy Primary Drives. The study is a predictive numerical and CFD (computational fluid dynamics) ...

Hanna, J. Hanna Wave Energy Primary Drives

Mar 10, 2022
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TEAMER: xWave Real Time IMU Optimization for Advanced Controls

CalWave is developing a wave energy converter (WEC) called xWave that operates fully submerged and is classified as a type of submerged pressure differential WEC. As ocean waves pass over the submerged wave buoy, a pressure differential is created, exciting the absorber in multipl...

Spinneken, J. and Boerner, T. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Apr 18, 2023
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Triton: Survivability Enhancement of a Multi-Mode Point Absorber

The overall goal of this project was to design and validate a survival mode for the Triton WEC that allows for a reduction in peak loads, while simultaneously allowing for a reduction of capital cost due to the elimination of overdesign to account for uncertainty. In addition, the...

Mundon, T. and Rosenberg, B. Oscilla Power, Inc.

Sep 28, 2018
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MASK4 Test Campaign for Sandia WaveBot Device Dataset

This data and report details the findings from a wave tank test focused on production of useful work of a wave energy converter (WEC) device. The experimental system and test were specifically designed to validate models for power transmission throughout the WEC system. Additional...

Forbush, D. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Dec 25, 2023
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UMass 2-Body WEC Techno-Economic Assessment

The University of Massachusetts (UMass) is developing a 2-body wave energy converter (WEC) device that is converting mechanical power into electricity using a mechanical motion rectifier that allows the system to couple to a flywheel. UMass has completed numerical modeling, wave t...

Previsic, M. Re Vision Consulting

Nov 19, 2024
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TEAMER: Electrically Engaged Undulation System for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

This TEAMER RFTS 1 (Request for Technical Support) project supported the flume tank testing of a long range, high endurance unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to monitor maritime space. Today, battery-powered remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) lack the duration to make persistent, w...

Lu, K. and Datla, R. Pyro-E

Oct 01, 2021
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TEAMER: Additional Degree of Freedom for WEC Model

'Additional Degree of Freedom for WEC' WEC-Sim numerical model from RFTS 1 (request for technical support) TEAMER project. An increase in wave energy converter (WEC) efficiency requires not only consideration of the nonlinear effects in the WEC dynamics and the power take-off (PTO...

McCall, A. et al Dehlsen Associates, LLC

May 26, 2022
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Tidal Energy Site Characterization East Forelands Alaska

During the summer field season in 2012, Benthic GeoScience Inc. (Benthic) mobilized under contract with Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) in order to conduct precise geospatial measurements of the seafloor accomplishing a preliminary Site Characterization Study for the ORPC Eas...

Worthington, M. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 01, 2013
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Performance estimation of resonance-enhanced dual-buoy wave energy converter using coupled time-domain simulation

This paper presents the modeling methodology and performance evaluation of the resonance-enhanced dual-buoy WEC (Wave Energy Converter) by HEM (hydrodynamic & electro-magnetic) fully-coupled-dynamics time-domain-simulation program. The numerical results are systematically compared...

Kang, H. et al Texas A&M University

Aug 31, 2020
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LCOE Baseline for RME Surge WEC Device

This submission includes all the data to support an LCOE baseline assessment for the Resolute Marine Energy (RME) Surge WEC device.

Previsic, M. et al Re Vision Consulting

Jul 19, 2017
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Wave Tank Testing Report for Controls Validation of a Heaving Point Absorber

The core objectives of this project is to improve the power capture of three different wave energy conversion (WEC) devices by more than 50% using an advanced control system and validate the attained improvements using wave tank and full scale testing. In parallel, we will bring a...

Previsic, M. et al Re Vision Consulting

Aug 26, 2020
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Control-based optimization for tethered tidal kite

This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting control-based techniques to maximize effectiveness of a tethered tidal kite. Below are the abstracts of each file included in the submission. Cobb...

Vermillion, C. et al North Carolina State University

Mar 02, 2020
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In-Situ Blade Strain Measurements of a Crossflow Turbine Operating in a Tidal Flow

This data was collected between October 25 and December 12 of 2022 at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Atlantic Marine Energy Center (AMEC) turbine deployment platform (TDP). The goal was to collect blade strain data from a crossflow turbine operating in a tidal flow. A t...

Bharath, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 16, 2022
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RivGen Deployment Control System Specifications and Models, Igiugig, AK

Control System simulation models, case studies, and processing codes for analyzing field data. Raw data files included from VFD and SCADA. MatLab and Simulink are required to open some data files and all model files.

Forbush, D. et al Ocean Renewable Power Company

Mar 21, 2016
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M3 Wave DMP/APEX WEC Downselected System Overviews

In 2014, open water testing revealed that sediment scour around and under the device was significant and likely interrupted operations. To explore methods to mitigate this phenomenon, M3 developed a number of alternate concepts as detailed in concept sketches. This submission incl...

Morrow, M. and Delos-Reyes, M. M3 Wave

Sep 29, 2017
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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....