University of New Hampshire Center for Ocean Renewable Energy (CORE) Infrastructure Enhancements
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States), Center for Ocean Renewable Energy (CORE); University of New Hampshire
Several key components of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Center for Ocean Renewable Energy (CORE) research, development and evaluation infrastructure for marine renewable energy (MRE) systems were enhanced under this project. These consisted of (1) A Tidal Turbine Deployment Platform (TDP) for marine hydrokinetic (MHK) turbines for use at the two UNH tidal energy test sites in Great Bay Estuary/Piscataqua River, (2) Laboratory Upgrades at Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory (COEL), including a new towing mechanism for the UNH tow tank, a one-meter scale turbine test bed with instrumentation and a new test section for a high-speed cavitation tunnel, and the (3) Refurbishment of a Wave/Wind Offshore Test Site Environmental Buoy (for use with WEC testing). The UNH-CORE Infrastructure Enhancement Project was very successful. Existing MRE infrastructure was improved and upgraded and new MRE infrastructure was created at UNH. The infrastructure has already been extensively utilized by MHK industry and collaborators from National Laboratories and other universities, and will continue to serve the R&D mission in support of the Marine Renewable Energy and Powering the Blue Economy (PBE) industries. Testing infrastructure for marine hydrokinetic turbines was created which enables very cost-effective testing of intermediate scale turbines in a real tidal flow. A floating Turbine Deployment Platform (TDP) of dimensions 50 ft x 20 ft (15 m x 6 m), which can be used to deploy and test axial-flow or cross-flow MHK turbines with diameters up to approximately 10 ft (3 m), is now available for the marine energy industry. The platform is currently moored via pile-guides in a “floating-dock” configuration next to a bridge pier at Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth, NH, and turbines can be rotated in and out of the water via a turbine pitching mechanism. Using this new test infrastructure, the MHK industry can perform medium-to-long-term testing with inexpensive device deployment and retrieval, and re-deployment to facilitate low-cost incremental testing.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0003263
- OSTI ID:
- 1635378
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UNH--0003263
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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