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ALFA Field Testing of a Dual Sonar System for Detecting Woody Debris

Field testing of a dual sonar system for detecting woody debris in natural settings was conducted at the Tanana River Test Site (TRTS) in Nenana, AK between 8/26 and 9/23, 2015. The TRTS is approximately 65 miles south of Fairbanks and is well suited for testing hydrokinetic energ...

Kasper, J. University of Alaska Fairbanks

Apr 11, 2022
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ALFA MHK Biological Monitoring Stationary Deployment South Energy Test Site, Newport, Oregon

Acoustic backscatter data from a WBAT operating at 70kHz deployed at PMEC-SETS from April to September of 2016. 180 pings were collected at 1Hz every two hours, as part of the Advanced Laboratory and Field Arrays (ALFA) for Marine Energy project. Data was subject to preliminary pr...

Horne, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Oct 01, 2016
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ALFA Wave Resource Characterization in Extreme Conditions, Offshore of Newport, OR

Model hindcast and Surface Wave Instrument Float With Tracking (SWIFT) buoy observations during extreme conditions offshore of Newport, OR

Thomson, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Dec 06, 2015
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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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ALFA Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics/Discrete Element Method Modeling System

The HDIS/COUPi discrete element method modeling system was used to simulate the interaction between various debris and the Research Debris Diversion Platform (RDDP)

DUVOY, P. University of Alaska Fairbanks

Nov 29, 2016
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ALFA Biological Monitoring NNMREC South Energy Test Site, Offshore of Newport, OR

Acoustic Pilot surface survey at the South Energy Test Center at Newport (Oregon). Data collected with a SIMRAD EK-60 echosounder using four frequencies (38, 70, 120 and 200 kHz).

Horne, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Oct 08, 2015
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ALFA Station Keeping Results for Seabotix vLBV300 Underwater Vehicle near Newport, OR

This data set presents results testing the station keeping abilities of a tethered Seabotix vLBV300 underwater vehicle equipped with an inertial navigation system. These results are from an offshore deployment on April 20, 2016 off the coast of Newport, OR (44.678 degrees N, 124.1...

Hollinger, G. Oregon State University

Apr 20, 2016
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ALFA Oscillating Water Column Device Testing

Data from Phase 1 testing of a single ALFA Oscillating Water Column (OWC) device at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory (HWRL) at Oregon State University in Fall of 2016. Contains two zip files of raw data, one of project data, and a diagram of the device with dimensions. ...

Bosma, B. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Nov 07, 2016
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ALFA: SWIFT Buoy Data Under Extreme Wave Conditions at the Newport South Energy Test Site

Full data set (six deployments) from the Surface Wave Instrument Float With Tracking (SWIFT) buoy deployments at the Newport South Energy Test Site during extreme wave events.

Thomson, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

May 01, 2017
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Tidal Current Cross-flow Turbine Wake ADV and PIV Data

Measurements in the wake of a high-solidity cross-flow turbine in a laboratory flume obtained using Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry and Particle Image Velocimetry for the purposes of characterizing the turbine wake and comparing the methods.

Polagye, B. University of Washington

Dec 06, 2016
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ALFA Shared Autonomy Manipulation Data with a Seabotix vLBV300

This report outlines marine field demonstrations for manipulation tasks with a semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (sAUV). The vehicle is built off a Seabotix vLBV300 platform with custom software interfacing it with the Robot Operating System (ROS). The vehicle utilizes an inertia...

Hollinger, G. and Lawrance, N. Oregon State University

Jun 19, 2017
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ALFA Biological Monitoring Density Values South Energy Test Site, Newport, Oregon

Density values from active acoustic measurements at South Energy Test Site. This data correspond to a bottom mounted upward-looking WBAT, deployed from April 19th to September 30th. Samples (175 pings) were collected hourly at 1Hz.

Horne, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Apr 11, 2017
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Underwater Mapping Results for Seabotix vLBV300 Vehicle with Tritech Gemini 720i Imaging Sonar near Newport, OR

This document presents results from tests to demonstrate underwater mapping capabilities of an underwater vehicle in conditions typically found in marine renewable energy arrays. These tests were performed with a tethered Seabotix vLBV300 underwater vehicle. The vehicle is equippe...

Hollinger, G. Oregon State University

May 15, 2017
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Coordinated Control of Tidal Cross-flow Turbines

Initial laboratory experiments with coordinated phase control of cross-flow turbines in a dense array.

Polagye, B. University of Washington

Dec 06, 2016
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DAISY Acoustic Measurements in Agate Pass, WA

Acoustic data and metadata from Drifting Acoustic Instrumentation SYstem (DAISY) testing in Agate Pass (separating the north end of Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound), WA in April 2022. The goal was to characterize radiated noise from a cross-flow turbine d...

Polagye, B. et al University of Washington

Apr 20, 2022
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Laboratory Experiments for Highly Nonlinear WEC-Wave Conditions

This document describes the experiments carried out in December 2019 and February-March 2020 in the Directional Wave Basin at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, Oregon State University. Regular and irregular waves were generated in the absence and presence of a WEC, inclu...

Robertson, B. et al Oregon State University

Apr 30, 2020
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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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Wave Energy Prize Wave Calibration Data for the 1:20 Scale Testing at MASK

Time series data, sensor layout, and wave calibration summaries for the wave height measurements for the 10 calibration sea states for the 1:20 scale testing of the Wave Energy Prize (WEP) at the US Navy's Maneuvering and Seakeeping (MASK) Basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center...

Driscoll, R. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

May 08, 2017
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ALFA Non-linear Ocean Waves and PTO Control Strategy

Data from Advanced Laboratory and Field Arrays (ALFA) Non-linear Ocean Waves and Power Take-Off (PTO). Control Strategy project conducted at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory (HWRL) at Oregon State University in 2019/2020. Contains two zip files (ALFANL.zip, ALFANL2.zip)...

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

Oct 28, 2019
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Reference Model 1 Cost Breakdown (RM1: Tidal Current Turbine)

Contains the Reference Model 1 (RM1) spreadsheets with the cost breakdown structure (CBS) for the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) calculations for a single RM1 device and multiple unit arrays. These spreadsheets are contained within an XLSX file and a spreadsheet editor such as Mi...

Neary, V. et al Sandia National Laboratories