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Net Shape Fabricated Low Cost MHK Pass-Through the Hub Turbine Blades with Integrated Health Management Technology

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 healt...
Wess, D. ARL Penn State
Feb 09, 2016
24 Resources
0 Stars
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StingRAY Structural Optimization Final Technical Report

The overall project objective is to materially decrease the leveled cost of energy (LCOE) of the Columbia Power (CPower) StingRAY utility-scale wave energy converter (WEC). This will be achieved by reducing structural material and manufacturing costs and increasing energy output. ...
Lenee-Bluhm, P. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.
Aug 05, 2020
2 Resources
0 Stars
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StingRAY Structural Optimization Final Technical Report Appendices

The protected data appendices to the public Final Technical Report. The overall project objective is to materially decrease the leveled cost of energy (LCOE) of the Columbia Power (CPower) StingRAY utility-scale wave energy converter (WEC). This will be achieved by reducing stru...
Lenee-Bluhm, P. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.
Aug 05, 2020
16 Resources
0 Stars
Awaiting release

Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1

Numerous studies have shown that advanced control of a wave energy converter's (WEC's) power take off (PTO) can provide significant increases (on the order of 200-300%) in WEC energy absorption. Transitioning these control approaches from simplified paper studies to application in...
Coe, R. Sandia National Laboratories
Feb 26, 2016
3 Resources
0 Stars
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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: Heterogeneous Wave Energy Converter Test Data

This dataset was generated during the Heterogeneous Wave Energy Converter (HetWECs) experimental campaign conducted at the O.H. Hinsdale Direction Wave Basin at Oregon State University. Experiments include system identification, hydrodynamics, and power take-off (PTO) tests. The ...
Vitale, O. et al Cornell University
Jun 27, 2025
5 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Power Conversion Unit Bench Testing of DUO Wave-powered Desalination System (DUO-DS)

This upload includes the data collected between September 9 and September 26, 2025, at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) in Golden, Colorado. Sea Potential built a single power conversion unit (PCU) along with the pipework for a reverse osmosis system, which was actuat...
Bourque, C. et al Sea Potential LLC
Sep 26, 2025
6 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

TEAMER: Experimental Characterization of a Laboratory-Scaled Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter

This data is a result of an experimental campaign 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 thick and was tested in the Sea Wave Environmental Lab (...
Lydon, B. et al University of Washington
Apr 05, 2024
9 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

Current Energy Harnessing using Synergistic Kinematics of Schools of Fish-Shaped Bodies: Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory Tank Testing Data

The objectives of the proposed work pertain to building a high power-density and high efficiency device to harness MHK energy by mimicking fish-school kinematics. Vortex Hydro Energy is collaborating with a concept formed and undergone preliminary testing at the University of Mich...
Bernitsas, M. Vortex Hydro Energy
Apr 11, 2017
20 Resources
0 Stars
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TEAMER: ORPC Pitching Foil Crossflow Turbine Efficiency Testing Report

Turbine performance data, collected and processed by the University of New Hampshire (UNH). This presentation includes turbine performance vs tow speed and Reynolds #, turbine performance vs tip-speed ratio, as well as the TARE values used for processing the data. Project was fun...
Pillsbury, L. Ocean Renewable Power Company
Sep 01, 2022
1 Resources
0 Stars
Awaiting release

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
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TEAMER: Tidal Currents in San Juan Archipelago, Washington

Re-analyzed acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data originally collected by NOAA CO-OPS (Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services) and equivalent point data from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's FVCOM (Finite Volume Community Ocean Model) model of th...
Polagye, B. et al University of Washington
Dec 15, 2022
4 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

TEAMER: Two Stage Ocean Current Turbine Reduced Order Modeling

The Equinox Ocean Current turbine is a groundbreaking new two-stage turbine design, enabling cost effective power generation at low water velocities. The data included in this submission can be used to reproduce the figures provided in the corresponding Post Access Report. The pro...
Ross, H. et al National Laboratory of the Rockies
Mar 04, 2026
2 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

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

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

Focusing Wave Energy for Wave Energy Converter Applications

Wave tank tests at Stevens Institute of Technology quantified the ability of near-surface platforms to concentrate wave energy over the platform. Due to the instantaneous change in water depth, mass, energy, and power are conserved in this process. The energy and power concentrat...
Raftery, M. Stevens Institute of Technology
Aug 10, 2010
7 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

TEAMER: Modeling of Wave Energy Converter-augmented Ocergy Offshore Platform

In this project, using the MATLAB/Simulink tool, WEC-Sim, initial simulations were performed of Ocergy's offshore data platform, the OCG-Data, to study the feasibility of augmenting this platform with several wave energy converters (WECs) affixed to platform structure. A target of...
Tom, N. et al Ocergy, Inc
May 15, 2026
2 Resources
0 Stars
Curated

M3 Wave DMP/APEX WEC 1:10 Scale Preliminary Tank Test Plan

This is a preliminary test plan for testing of the Delos-Reyes Morrow Pressure Device (DMP), commercialized by M3 Wave LLC as "APEX," at Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University. Additional logistical details and instrumentation specifics will be added as engi...
Delos-Reyes, M. and Morrow, M. M3 Wave
Feb 23, 2017
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Tank testing of Waveberg wave energy converter

Waveberg tank test data guide: The files are in alphabetical order after the first sub file; this file contains earlier versions of the master analysis file. As I was working, I would take a graph and drop it into the draft final report, since I did not understand the data tracea...
Wegener, P. DBA Waveberg Development
Apr 20, 2025
27 Resources
0 Stars
In curation

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
2 Resources
0 Stars
Awaiting release

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
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible
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