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Azura WEC 1/15th Wave Tank Test Data

Test data from the 1/15th Wave Tank Tests of the Azura performed in 2017/2018 to validate the power performance and survivability of the Azura Design developed by Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI) planned for deployment at the US Navy's Wave Energy Test Site. Raw and processed d...

Ling, B. Northwest Energy Innovations

Feb 02, 2018
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Triton-C WEC Detailed System Design Package

The Detailed System Design Package for the Triton-C WEC, including a report and CAD drawings pertaining to the overall preliminary design, system arrangement, surface float hull, and surface float arrangement. D6 presents an overview of the final detailed design package for the T...

Stinson, K. et al Oscilla Power, Inc.

Nov 02, 2020
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Triton-C WEC Fabrication Plan (DDP)

This is the Fabrication Plan for the Triton-C WEC based on the Detailed System Design Package (DDP), including a report and visuals pertaining to the overall detailed design of the reaction ring, surface float hull, power take off and surface float arrangement. Oscilla Power Inc,...

Stinson, K. and Mundon, T. Oscilla Power, Inc.

Nov 02, 2020
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TidGen: Single Turbine Subsystem (STS) Device Installation, Deployment, Retrieval, and Removal Procedures

This document provides the process details for installation of the Single Turbine Subsystem (STS) device from the assembly laydown location to the deployed location in Eastport, ME. These procedures will be conducted not only during initial deployment, but also during maintenance ...

Martin, T. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Feb 20, 2023
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Geometric, structural, and control co-design for undersea kites

Focusing on a marine hydrokinetic energy application, this paper presents a combined geometric, structural, and control co-design framework for optimizing the performance of energy-harvesting kites subject to structural constraints. While energy-harvesting kites can offer more tha...

Vermillion, C. et al North Carolina State University

Sep 14, 2020
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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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StingRAY Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis: WEC Risk Registers

Analysis method to systematically identify all potential failure modes and their effects on the Stingray WEC system. This analysis is incorporated early in the development cycle such that the mitigation of the identified failure modes can be achieved cost effectively and efficient...

Rhinefrank, K. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

Jul 25, 2016
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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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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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TidGen MHK Generator Composite Fatigue Analysis Procedure

A procedure was described for performing a fatigue analysis of composite foils for an MHK generator. The steps included generating load data, S-N (Stress versus Number of cycles to failure) diagrams through fatigue testing, cycle counts, damage versus load, and cumulative damage. ...

Krumpe, A. ORPC Inc.

Apr 14, 2020
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TidGen: Permits for Installation of Single Turbine Test System, Cobscook Bay, Maine

This is a summary of permits required and obtained for installation, operation, removal of the TidGen Single Turbine Test system in Cobscook Bay, May in 2023. The Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) worked with federal and state entities to gain required permits and approvals tha...

Sellers-Reynolds, K. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Feb 27, 2024
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Spooling control design for flight optimization of tethered tidal kites

This submission includes three peer-reviewed (under review) papers from the researchers at North Carolina State University presenting different control-based techniques to maximize the efficiency and robustness of a tethered energy-harvesting kite. Below are the abstracts of each ...

Daniels, J. et al North Carolina State University

Sep 16, 2019
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TEAMER: Drifting Hydrophone System Block Diagram and Pre-Amplifier Calibrations

This data release is part of TEAMER RFTS 2, where the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) at Oregon State University is performing hardware and software development and integration of four newly designed drifting hydrophone systems for underwater noise measu...

Turnbull, J. et al Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC) / PacWave Oregon State University

Feb 26, 2024
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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
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Azura Advanced Controls 1/15th Scale Wave Tank Testing

Experimental data from the wave tank test of the Advanced control systems developed by Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI) for the Azura at the University of Maine in Orono (UMO). Summary data is included utilizing the WEC Lab Testing Content Model v2.1. All raw and processed expe...

Ling, B. Northwest Energy Innovations

Feb 02, 2018
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MOIS LabVIEW Software

Software developed in LabVIEW for the Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS) is provided. Two documents: MOIS User's Guide and MOIS Software Developer's Guide are included in the submission.

Nelson, E. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 03, 2015
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Advanced TidGen Power System Composites Structural Testing

Seawater aging response was investigated in marine-grade glass/epoxy, glass/vinyl ester, carbon/epoxy and carbon/vinyl ester composites with respect to water uptake, interlaminar shear strength, flexural strength, tensile strength, and tensile fracture surface observations. The re...

Krumpe, A. ORPC Inc.

Jan 06, 2020
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Risk Management Plan and Risk Register for Design Low-Power Wave Energy Converter for Non-Grid Applications

Risk Registers for major subsystems completed according to the methodology described in the Risk Management Plan [DE-EE0008627 D1.2 Risk Management Plan PD v1.1 07-19-2019.pdf], also included here.

Amon, E. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

Jul 19, 2019
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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....