A Novel Ocean Sentinel Instrumentation Buoy for Wave Energy Testing

Lettenmaier, Terry; Amon, Ean; Brekken, Ted K. A.; Phillips, Reo

doi:10.4031/mtsj.47.1.4

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“…The Ocean Sentinel is an instrumentation buoy developed by NNMREC and AXYS Technologies for open-ocean WEC testing [4]. The Ocean Sentinel is a surface buoy based on the 6-meter NOMAD (Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device) design, which facilitates open-ocean, stand-alone testing of WECs without a utility grid connection.…”

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Wave Energy Research, Development and Testing Including Testing of Materials and Technologies for Bio-Fouling and Corrosion Prevention

Baker

Yim

Amon

et al. 2014

Day 4 Thu, May 08, 2014

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This paper illustrates opportunities for ocean wave power to become a new, reliable and clean source of renewable energy. Presented are the activities of the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC), a Department of Energy sponsored partnership between Oregon State University and the University of Washington (UW). NNMREC performs fundamental technological, social, and environmental research on marine renewables, in addition to providing unique testing facilities including a wave energy linear test bed, 2D and 3D wave tanks, and an Ocean Sentinel mobile ocean test berth instrumentation buoy to facilitate ocean testing. This paper includes the ongoing research and testing with the Ocean Sentinel instrumentation buoy, in addition to the developing cable-to-shore testing facility, which would be the first utility scale, grid-connected wave energy test site in the US. Finally, this paper presents the ongoing research and testing of materials and technologies for bio-fouling and corrosion prevention in the marine environment.

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Wave Energy Research, Development and Testing Including Testing of Materials and Technologies for Bio-Fouling and Corrosion Prevention

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“…The Ocean Sentinel is an instrumentation buoy developed by NNMREC and AXYS Technologies for open-ocean WEC testing [9]. The Ocean Sentinel is a surface buoy, based on the 6-meter NOMAD (Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device) buoy design that facilitates open-ocean, stand-alone testing of WECs without a utility grid connection.…”

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Advancing wave energy converter array-to-grid transmission systems

Brekken

Cotilla‐Sanchez

Amon

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)

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The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC), a US Department of Energy (USDOE) Center headquartered at Oregon State University (OSU), seeks to facilitate the integration of marine renewables onto the utility grid. This paper presents NNMREC's approach to streamlining the research, development and testing process to enable wave energy converter (WEC) array-to-grid transmission systems. The WEC development process tools and facilities are presented, including modeling, scaled laboratory and wave tank testing as well as field testing. The NNMREC ocean testing solutions include scaled non-grid connected facilities as well as developing utility-scale cable-to-shore grid emulator and grid-connect facilities. This paper concludes with the NNMREC cable-toshore site grid integration configuration along with a high-level array-to-grid transmission system simulation.

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“…See the January/February 2013 issue of the Marine Technology Society Journal for a paper that gives a detailed description of the Ocean Sentinel (von Jouanne et al, 2013). See the January/February 2013 issue of the Marine Technology Society Journal for a paper that gives a detailed description of the Ocean Sentinel (von Jouanne et al, 2013).…”

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Testing the WET-NZ Wave Energy Converter Using the Ocean Sentinel Instrumentation Buoy

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Moran³

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mar technol soc j

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This paper describes ocean testing of the half-scale Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET-NZ) prototype wave energy converter (WEC) using the Ocean Sentinel instrumentation buoy during a 6-week deployment period in August‐October 2012. These tests were conducted by the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) at its Pacific Ocean test site off the coast of Newport, Oregon. The WET-NZ is the product of a research consortium between Callaghan Innovation, a New Zealand Crown Entity, and Power Projects Limited (PPL), a Wellington, New Zealand private company. The Oregon deployment was project managed by Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI), a Portland, OR firm. NNMREC is a Department of Energy sponsored partnership between Oregon State University (OSU), the University of Washington (UW), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The Ocean Sentinel instrumentation buoy is a 6-m surface buoy, developed in 2012, that provides a stand-alone electrical load, WEC generator control, and data collection for WECs being tested. The Ocean Sentinel was deployed and operated for the first time during the 2012 WET-NZ tests. During these tests, the operation of the WET-NZ was demonstrated and its performance was characterized, while also proving successful deployment and operation of the Ocean Sentinel.

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A Novel Ocean Sentinel Instrumentation Buoy for Wave Energy Testing

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Wave Energy Research, Development and Testing Including Testing of Materials and Technologies for Bio-Fouling and Corrosion Prevention

Wave Energy Research, Development and Testing Including Testing of Materials and Technologies for Bio-Fouling and Corrosion Prevention

Advancing wave energy converter array-to-grid transmission systems

Testing the WET-NZ Wave Energy Converter Using the Ocean Sentinel Instrumentation Buoy

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