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Competing Use Analysis for Offshore Renewables and Subsea Cables

Demand for abundant and diverse resources in the oceans is growing, necessitating marine spatial planning. To inform development of Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) and Offshore Wind (OSW) resources, the Department of Energy (DOE) has asked NREL to identify the competing uses areas betwe...

Best, B. and Kilcher, L. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 29, 2019
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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. Martin and Ottaway

Aug 10, 2010
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CalWave Open Water Demo Budget Period 1 Reports

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

Boerner, T. et al CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Jun 03, 2019
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HERO WEC V1.0 WEC-Sim Model

This zip file contains the files that are needed to simulate NREL's HERO WEC (hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis wave energy converter). This requires the user to have already installed WEC-Sim. In addition to the standard toolboxes that are required to run WEC-Sim the user wi...

Jenne, S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 12, 2022
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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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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
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HERO WEC V1.0 WEC-Sim Model (July 2024)

**This submission supersedes submission MHKDR-483** This submission file contains the files that are needed to simulate NREL's HERO WEC (hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis wave energy converter). This requires the user to have already installed WEC-Sim. In addition to the sta...

Panzarella, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 01, 2024
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TEAMER: Tidal Energy Resource Characterization and Model Validation via the Assessment of Distributed Current Measurements from microFloat Swarms, Data and Post-Access Report

This project evaluated how high-resolution, spatially distributed field data can be used to refine and validate site-scale hydrodynamic simulations of tidal channels. Use of such spatially-distributed field observations or site-scale hydrodynamic simulations will be needed for pro...

Harrison, T. et al University of Washington (NNMREC) Applied Physics Lab

Aug 20, 2020
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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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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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HERO WEC V1 Upgrade 2023 Laboratory Testing (processed data)

The following submission includes processed laboratory data from NREL's Hydraulic and Electric Reverse Osmosis Wave Energy Converter (HERO WEC), in the form of MATLAB workspaces. This dataset was created using NREL's Large Amplitude Motion Platform (LAMP) and collected between Aug...

Panzarella, J. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jan 01, 2024
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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
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TEAMER: Technical Support for Aquantis (Materials): CRD-21-17762-0

The Aquantis Tidal Power Tug is a unique synthesis of best-available technologies and materials configured as a novel spar vessel to create an optimal platform for tidal stream energy conversion. The Power Tug utilizes an upstream-facing horizontal, 2-bladed rotor. To drive down c...

Swales, H. et al Aquantis, Inc.

Oct 17, 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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HERO WEC 2024 Hydraulic Configuration Deployment Data

The following submission includes raw and processed data from the in water deployment of NREL's Hydraulic and Electric Reverse Osmosis Wave Energy Converter (HERO WEC), in the form of parquet files, TDMS files, CSV files, bag files and MATLAB workspaces. This dataset was collected...

Jenne, S. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 14, 2024
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LandRAY PTO Test Plans with NREL NWTC 5 MW Dynamometer

The overarching project objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of using an innovative PowerTake-Off (PTO) Module in Columbia Power's utility-scale wave energy converter (WEC). The PTO Module uniquely combines a large-diameter, direct-drive, rotary permanent magnet generator; ...

Prudell, J. et al Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.

Feb 29, 2016
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Advanced Control Systems for Wave Energy Converters

This submission contains several papers, a final report, descriptions of a theoretical framework for two types of control systems, and descriptions of eight real-time flap load control policies with the objective of assessing the potential improvement of annual average capture eff...

Scruggs, J. et al Resolute Marine Energy, Inc.

Jan 30, 2017
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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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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 project and to produce performance metrics (precision, recall, mAP50, mAP50-95). Contents: Data consist of "images" and "labels". Each image has an associated lab...

Joslin, J. et al MarineSitu

Dec 17, 2024
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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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Performance of Elevated Hinge Flap Wavemaker

This data includes a sweep of regular wave runs characterizing the performance of an elevated hinge flap wavemaker. Maximum wave heights were run for 13 periods in a range from 0.5 s to 6 s. Data is saved in several formats including 'raw' analog voltages, 'mat' matlab files,'tx...

Bosma, B. et al Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)

Oct 25, 2023
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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
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State Estimation for advanced control of wave energy converters

A report on state estimation for advanced control of wave energy converters (WECs), with supporting data models and slides from the overview presentation. The methods discussed are intended for use to enable real-time closed loop control of WECs.

Coe, R. and Bacelli, G. Sandia National Laboratories

Apr 25, 2017
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Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) Content Model for Design of High Deflection Foils for MHK Applications

The LCOE Content Model provides data submitters with an easy and consistent means of uploading data that can be used to calculate the levelized cost of energy for MHK devices. These data are important to DOE and will be used to develop data products that provide quantitative info...