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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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TidGen: Single Turbine System (STS) Deployment and Mooring Report

This document provides a summary for the performance of the deployment and mooring systems for a single turbine test system (STS) deployed by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) in Cobscook Bay, Maine in 2023.

Pillsbury, L. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Jan 05, 2024
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Triton Field Trials (TFiT) underwater noise University of New Hampshire Living Bridge turbine Processed Data

In July 2021, a commercial-off-the-shelf hydrophone was deployed in a free-drifting configuration to measure underwater acoustic emissions and characterize a 25 kW-rated tidal turbine at the University of New Hampshire's Living Bridge Project in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sampling...

Haxel, J. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jul 21, 2021
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Turbine Lander Deployment in Sequim Bay (2023-2024): Optical and Sonar Records of Animal Interactions

This dataset contains environmental monitoring data collected during the deployment of the Turbine Lander, a small-scale vertical-axis, cross-flow turbine (1.19 m x 0.85 m) in the inlet to Sequim Bay, Washington. The turbine was deployed for 141 days between October 2023 and March...

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

Mar 07, 2024
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Advanced TidGen Power System Material Characterization Program

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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TidGen LCOE Workbooks

Workbooks showing Annualized Energy Production, Cost Breakdown Structure, Levelized Cost of Electricity for DOE Reference Tidal Project 1) Baseline TidGen Power System 2) TidGen Power System with the application of Advanced Controls 3) Advanced TidGen Power System with several enh...

McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Mar 21, 2016
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Advanced TidGen Power System LCOE Calculations and System Overview

Marnagh, C. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Jun 14, 2018
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Performance data for an axial-flow turbine with passive adaptive blades

To support the development of simulation tools for passive adaptive turbine rotors, an experimental data set from a laboratory-scale axial-flow turbine with passive adaptive blades is provided. The 0.45-meter diameter turbine was tested in the Alice C. Tyler Flume at the Universit...

Van Ness, K. et al University of Washington

May 01, 2024
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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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Verdant Power TriFrame, Gen5 KHPS Turbine, and BOP System Content Models

This submission includes System Content Models with data following manufacture for the Verdant Power TriFrame, Gen5 Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) Turbines, and Balance of Plant (BOP). The TriFrame installs 3 Gen5 KHPS Turbines. The BOP system controls the turbines and interconn...

Corren, D. et al Verdant Power Inc.

Mar 31, 2020
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Design of high deflection foils for MHK applications CFD files

The Ocean Renewable Power Company's (ORPC's) goal is to design, develop, and test hydrofoils with large deflections. The effects of the deflections on cross-flow turbine performance would be evaluated in order to inform design considerations for full-scale water turbines and other...

Barrington, M. and McEntee, J. Ocean Renewable Power Company

Jun 01, 2021
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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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AeroDyn V15.04: Design Tool for Wind and MHK Turbines

AeroDyn is a time-domain wind and MHK turbine aerodynamics module that can be coupled into the FAST version 8 multi-physics engineering tool to enable aero-elastic simulation of horizontal-axis wind turbines. AeroDyn V15.04 has been updated to include a cavitation check for MHK tu...

Murray, R. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 28, 2017
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RANS Simulation RRF of Single Full Scale DOE RM1 MHK Turbine

Attached are the .cas and .dat files for the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation of a single full scale DOE RM1 turbine implemented in ANSYS FLUENT CFD-package. In this case study taking advantage of the symmetry of the DOE RM1 geometry, only half of the geometry i...

Javaherchi, T. et al University of Washington

Apr 10, 2013
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RANS Simulation RRF of Single Lab-Scaled DOE RM1 MHK Turbine

Attached are the .cas and .dat files for the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation of a single lab-scaled DOE RM1 turbine implemented in ANSYS FLUENT CFD-package. The lab-scaled DOE RM1 is a re-design geometry, based of the full scale DOE RM1 design, producing same p...

Javaherchi, T. et al University of Washington

Apr 15, 2014
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Verdant Power Gen5 KHPS and TriFrame System Content Models

This submission includes the Component Content Model for Verdant Power TriFrame and the System Content Model for Verdant Power TriFrame + 3 Gen5 KHPS Turbines. The TriFrame is the foundation component of the system, which consists of a TriFrame + 3 Gen5 KHPS Turbines (TF+3T).

Corren, D. et al Verdant Power Inc.

Jul 05, 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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RANS Simulation VBM of Single Full Scale DOE RM1 MHK Turbine

Attached are the .cas and .dat files along with the required User Defined Functions (UDFs) and look-up table of lift and drag coefficients for Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation of a single full scale DOE RM1 turbine implemented in ANSYS FLUENT CFD-package. In this...

Javaherchi, T. and Aliseda, A. University of Washington

Apr 10, 2013
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RANS Simulation VBM of Single Lab Scaled DOE RM1 MHK Turbine

Javaherchi, T. et al University of Washington (NNMREC)

Apr 15, 2014
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RANS Simulation VBM of Array of Three Coaxial Lab Scaled DOE RM1 MHK Turbine with 5D Spacing

Attached are the .cas and .dat files along with the required User Defined Functions (UDFs) and look-up table of lift and drag coefficients for the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation of three coaxially located lab-scaled DOE RM1 turbine implemented in ANSYS FLUENT CF...

Javaherchi, T. University of Washington

Jun 08, 2016
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TEAMER: Engineering Design for Adaptable Environmental Monitoring Packages for Floating Tidal Turbines

Environmental monitoring of large-scale, floating current energy converters is challenging due to the size of the systems and operational challenges with deploying and operating sensing packages. Furthermore, each jurisdiction is generally expected to impose unique environmental ...

Bassett, C. et al University of Washington Applied Physics Lab

May 25, 2026
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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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TEAMER: Public Initial Optimization of a Vessel-mounted Removable Current Energy Converter

This project focuses on developing a numerical tool to estimate the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for vessel-mounted hydrokinetic turbines. By leveraging open-source software and public-domain data, the tool evaluates energy capture and costs for deploying turbines on vessels in...

Forbush, D. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Jul 31, 2024
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Underwater LoRa Radio Testing

This data set contains results from laboratory testing of LoRa radios in submerged environments. For these tests LoRa radios were enclosed in submersible polycarbonate enclosures then immersed in water of varying salinity levels. Data packets were transmitted between two radios, a...

Candon, C. National Laboratory of the Rockies

Sep 02, 2026
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TEAMER: Proprietary Initial Optimization of a Vessel-mounted Removable Current Energy Converter