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Title: Fabrication, testing, and modeling plans for a 125-kW counter-rotating-turbine wave energy converter

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OSTI ID:6465358

An air turbine accepting bi-directional flow and featuring counter-rotating turbine wheels is described. The turbine is for use with an oscillating water column and an air chamber to form a wave energy converter. Plans are presented for testing the turbine in a steady-state manner so as to obtain output torque and mass flow as functions of operational parameters. Additional tests will evaluate the rotary inertia of the turbine and generator, and determine the torque requirements of the generator. Concurrent modelling studies are described which will lead to the design of an optimized airchamber.

Research Organization:
Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-77CH00178
OSTI ID:
6465358
Report Number(s):
SERI/TP-634-1215; CONF-810622-4; ON: DE81023946
Resource Relation:
Conference: 8. ocean energy conference, Washington, DC, USA, 7 Jun 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English