Search OEDI Data

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
Publicly accessible

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
4 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

DAISY Benchmark Performance Data

This repository contains the underlying data from benchmark experiments for Drifting Acoustic Instrumentation SYstems (DAISYs) in waves and currents described in "Performance of a Drifting Acoustic Instrumentation SYstem (DAISY) for Characterizing Radiated Noise from Marine Energy...

Polagye, B. et al University of Washington

Sep 28, 2024
4 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Version 2 Tidal Energy Resource Characterization, Velocity and Turbulence Measurements, Cook Inlet, AK, 2021

Version 2 of MHKDR submission #475, which also contains the metadata for these measurements. Files here are stored in netCDF4 format, which can be read in Python using the "netcdf4" or "xarray" packages or in MATLAB using the "ncread()" function. Changes are as follows: MWM1 (mi...

Kilcher, L. and McVey, J. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jul 01, 2021
9 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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

Modeling and Performance Data for Heaving Buoy Wave Energy Converter with a Compressible Degree of Freedom (CDOF)

Modeling and performance data in Matlab data file (.mat) containing 3 structures (WEC model, simRes_sr and simRes_fix), and a pdf document describing the model, the simulations, and the analysis that has been carried out.

Bacelli, G. Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 28, 2016
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
6 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

NWEI AZURA Data for February 2018 Measured by MOIS (NREL)

Performance data (motion, power, mooring loads, position, heading, MOIS status) for the AZURA WEC operating at the Hawaii Wave Energy Test Site (WETS). Measured by Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS). These data are for the month of February 2018. Note that the WEC was dep...

Driscoll, R. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sep 30, 2018
6 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Control of an AUV with deployable energy-harvesting kite

This paper examines the control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with a deployable energy-harvesting kite for oceanographic observation and surveillance. The proposed design and control strategies specifically address objectives of achieving high-payload, long-endurance A...

Reed, J. et al North Carolina State University

Sep 02, 2019
1 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
11 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Wave Energy Prize 1/50th Testing IOwec Point Absorber

This submission of data includes all the 1/50th scale testing data completed on the Wave Energy Prize for the Iowec team, and includes: 1/50th test data (raw & processed) 1/50th test data video and pictures 1/50th Test plans and testing documents SSTF_Submission (summarized re...

Scharmen, W. Ricardo Detroit Technical Center

Dec 18, 2015
5 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Experimental Testing of a Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter at Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

In order to generate a public data set that can be used to validate Wave Energy Converter (WEC) numerical codes, such as WEC-Sim, Sandia National Laboratories led an experimental testing campaign of a 1:33 scale Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter (FOSWEC) in the Dire...

Ruehl, K. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Jun 15, 2016
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Laboratory Upgrade Point Absorber WEC-Sim Model with MoorDyn Moorings

This dataset includes a WEC-Sim and MoorDyn model of the Laboratory Upgrade Point Absorber (LUPA). LUPA is an open-source wave energy converter designed and tested by Oregon State University. The files provided here constitute a stable LUPA configuration with three mooring lines. ...

Mcconnell, A. Oregon State University

Oct 08, 2024
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Centipod WEC, Advanced Controls, WaveDyn Models

Archive containing the WaveDyn models used for analysis of the Centipod WEC with and without Advanced Controls, i.e. the WaveDyn files contain a baseline model which can be run alone, and a model predictive control (MPC) model which must be run when connected to the MPC controller...

McCall, A. Dehlsen Associates, LLC

Feb 15, 2016
3 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

NREL MOIS Data for NWEI Azura May 2016

NREL Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS) data files for the Azura grid-connected deployment at the 30-meter berth of the US Navy's Wave Energy Test Site (WETS 30m Site) at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) on the windward (northeast) coast of the island of Oahu, ...

Nelson, E. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jun 07, 2016
4 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

TEAMER: CalWave xWave New Technology Qualification and Path to Certification Final Report

CalWave is developing a wave energy converter (WEC) called xWave, which operates fully submerged and is classified as a submerged pressure differential type. As ocean waves pass over the submerged wave buoy, a pressure differential is created, exciting the absorber in multiple deg...

Petcovic, D. and Zhang, S. CalWave Power Technologies Inc.

Oct 31, 2022
2 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Cone Penetration Tests at the PacWave South Test Site

This ZIP archive contains cone penetration test data from the PacWave South Test Site. The data were collected in September 2023 aboard the ship Seacor Lee operating out of the Port of Newport, OR. The tests were performed by ConeTec using an AP van den Berg ROSON-100. The cone it...

Evans, M. Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)

Sep 07, 2023
6 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

TEAMER: Numerical Modeling of WECs to Support OES Task 10

This submission contains the files for reproducing the waves only and sphere test article simulations for the experimental setup (three different wave conditions) associated with the Teamer Request for Technical Support 9 (RFTS 9) fluid dynamics simulations to support the Ocean En...

Meuris, B. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 23, 2024
1 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

Wave Energy Prize 1/50th Testing WECCA Attenuator

This submission of data includes all the 1/50th scale testing data completed on the Wave Energy Prize for the WECCA team, and includes: 1/50th test data (raw & processed) 1/50th test data video and pictures 1/50th Test plans and testing documents SSTF_Submission (summarized re...

Scharmen, W. Ricardo Detroit Technical Center

Jan 15, 2016
6 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

Hydrokinetic Canal Measurements: Inflow Velocity, Wake Flow Velocity, and Turbulence

The dataset consist of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) velocity measurements in the wake of a 3-meter diameter vertical-axis hydrokinetic turbine deployed in Roza Canal, Yakima, WA, USA. A normalized hub-centerline wake velocity profile and two cross-section velocity con...

Gunawan, B. Sandia National Laboratories

Jun 11, 2014
4 Resources
0 Stars
Publicly accessible

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...