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Advanced TidGen Power System Deployment and Mooring System

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. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Jun 14, 2018
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UNH TDP Concurrent Measurements of Inflow, Power Performance, and Loads for a Grid-Synchronized Vertical Axis Cross-Flow Turbine Operating in a Tidal Estuary

This data was collected between October 12 and December 15 of 2021 at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Atlantic Marine Energy Center (AMEC) turbine deployment platform (TDP). This data set includes over 29 days of grid connected turbine operation during this 65 day time f...

Wosnik, M. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 21, 2021
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Single Turbine Test Procedure and Data Acquisition Plan

This document describes the test procedure and the data acquisition plan for the Single Turbine Subsystem (STS) testing that is part of the Advanced TidGen Power System. The goal of the Advanced TidGen Power System is to demonstrate a commercially viable tidal power system, integr...

Hayes, N. ORPC Inc.

Apr 13, 2022
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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
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HERO WEC V1.0 Electrical PTO Deployment Data and Analysis

This submission includes the processed and raw field electrical data from NREL's August 2022 HERO WEC (hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis wave energy converter) deployment at Jennette's Pier for the electrical PTO (power take-off).

Nakhai, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 12, 2022
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ALFA Discrete Element Method (DEM) Simulations using PFC3D

Contains input scripts, background information, reduced data, and results associated with the discrete element method (DEM) simulations of interface shear tests, plate anchor pullout tests, and torpedo anchor installation and pullout tests, using the software PFC3D (v4.0).

Evans, M. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Jan 05, 2016
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Single Turbine Test Procedure and Data Acquisition Plan, Rev. B

The TidGen80 Single Turbine System (TD80-STS or STS) will be used to test the power production performance of a single turbine in a tidal environment. Installation of the STS will also test the deployment system and methods for the full scale TD80. This document describes the te...

Hayes, N. ORPC Inc.

Apr 13, 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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Admiralty Inlet, WA Tidal Current Turbulence

Tripod and mooring data using acoustic doppler velocimeter (ADV) and acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) of tidal turbulence. When using the data, please cite the J. Oceanic Eng. paper included in this submission, and please contact Jim Thomson prior to submitting publication...

Thomson, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Feb 01, 2011
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Reference Model 2 Full Scale Geometry (RM2: River Current Turbine)

Contains the Reference Model 2 (RM2) full scale geometry files of the River Current Turbine, developed by the Reference Model Project (RMP). These full scale geometry files are saved as SolidWorks assembly, IGS, X_T, and STEP files, and require a CAD program to view. This data was...

Neary, V. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 30, 2014
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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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Observation-Based Resource Assessment of Gulf Stream MHK

Multi-year measurements of current velocity, salinity, and temperature from fixed and vessel-mounted sensors quantify Gulf Stream (GS) MHK resource variability and inform development off Cape Hatteras, NC. Vessel transects across the GS demonstrate a jet-like velocity structure wi...

Muglia, M. et al North Carolina State University

Jan 01, 2020
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TEAMER: Tidal Turbine Test, Downeast Turbines, July 12, 2021

Downeast Turbines tested a tidal turbine prototype with novel rotor/channel system and lateral effluent discharge apparatus (LEDA), during five days of testing in the flume at Alden Lab. Three days of testing (July 12-14, 2021) focused on turbine power metrics of torque and rpm, w...

McBride, G. Downeast Turbines

Mar 26, 2022
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Oscylator cylinders

This is one of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The parameters for the test are in the info.txt file.

Taipale, J. Vortex Hydro Energy

Feb 07, 2017
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Simulink Model of a New Energy EVG-005 5kW Hydropower Turbine

Simulink model for a New Energy 5kW hydropower turbine. ADCP data ("ds_streamwise_7_13.nc") and DC voltage, DC current, and rotor rotation observed from the New Energy EVG-005 Current Energy Converter (CEC) ("electrical_7_13_10ohms.nc") were collected at the Tanana River Test Sit...

Browning, E. et al University of Alaska Fairbanks

Jul 13, 2023
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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
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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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M3 Wave DMP/APEX WEC Final Technical Report

This project successfully developed methods for numerical modeling of sediment transport phenomena around rigid objects resting on or near the ocean floor. These techniques were validated with physical testing using actual sediment in a large wave tank. These methods can be applie...

Morrow, M. et al M3 Wave

May 31, 2018
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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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TEAMER: Pitching Foil Crossflow Turbine Efficiency Data

This dataset documents the efficiency testing of a pitching foil crossflow turbine, conducted at the University of New Hampshire's (UNH) Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory tow tank facility. The tests explored various pitch phases and amplitudes, ranging from 0 to 18 degrees, acro...

McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Aug 07, 2024
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Underwater Target Detection Software Demonstration on the RivGen Turbine

This repository contains data and processing scripts necessary to train the object detection models utilized in the underwater target detection software demonstration on the RivGen turbine project and to produce performance metrics (precision, recall, mAP50, mAP50-95). Contents...

Joslin, J. et al MarineSitu

Dec 17, 2024
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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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Turbine Lander, Sequim Bay (2023-2024) Environmental Observations and Data

The Turbine Lander, a small-scale (1.19 m x 0.85 m) veritical-axis, cross-flow turbine was deployed in the Inlet to Sequim Bay, Washington for 141 days from October 2023 to March 2024. Throughout the deployment an Adaptable Monitoring Package equipped with an acoustic Doppler curr...

Bassett, C. and Cotter, E. University of Washington Applied Physics Lab

Feb 07, 2024
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Reference Model 6 Cost Breakdown (RM6: Oscillating Water Column)

Contains the Reference Model 6 (RM6) spreadsheets with the cost breakdown structure (CBS) for the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) calculations for a single RM6 device and multiple unit arrays. These spreadsheets are contained within an XLSX file and a spreadsheet editor such as Mi...