In February 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office held its Peer Review Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. The purpose of the meetings was to evaluate DOE-funded water power research and development projects for contributions to DOE’s mission and goals, and to assess progress made against stated objectives.
Controls Technology
- Overview of Controls Technology
William McShane, U.S. Department of Energy - Passive Control for Wave Energy Converters (WECs) (National Aeronautics and Space Administration Compressible Degree of Freedom)
Vincent Neary, Sandia National Laboratories - Optimal Control of a Surge-Mode WEC in Random Waves
William Staby, Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. - Advanced Controls for the Multi-Pod Centipod WEC Device
Alan McCall, Dehlsen Associates, LLC - Controls Optimization of Three Different WEC Devices
Mirko Previsic, ReVision Consulting, LLC - Advanced Energy Harvesting Control Schemes for Marine Renewable Energy Devices
Jarlath McEntee, Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC - Advanced WEC Controls
Ryan Coe, Sandia National Laboratories - Assimilation of Wave Imaging Radar Observations for Real-Time Wave-by-Wave Forecasting
Merrick Haller, Oregon State University
Systems
- Overview of Systems
Alison LaBonte, U.S. Department of Energy - Wave Energy Converter Modeling
Yi-Hsiang Yu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - DTOcean (Optimal Design Tools for Ocean Energy)
Jesse Roberts, Sandia National Laboratories - Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Industry Support
Al Livecchi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Marine and Hydrokinetics Advanced Materials Program
Bernadette Hernandez-Sanchez, Sandia National Laboratories - Administration of the Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Prize
Wesley Scharmen, Ricardo, Inc. - Wave Energy Prize: Testing and Data Analysis
Rick Driscoll, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Components
- Overview of Components
Alison LaBonte, U.S. Department of Energy - Direct Drive Wave Energy Buoy
Ken Rhinefrank, Columbia Power Technologies, Inc. - Wave Energy Converter Structural Optimization Through Engineering and Experimental Analysis
Ken Rhinefrank, Columbia Power Technologies - Optimization of Hull Shape and Structural Design for OE Buoy
Mirko Previsic, Ocean Energy USA LLC - Energy Pass-Through-The-Hub Turbine Blades with Integrated Health Management Technology
Kevin Koudela, The Pennsylvania State University - Build and Test of a Novel, Commercial-Scale Wave Energy Direct-Drive Rotary Power Take-off Under Realistic Open-Ocean Conditions
Ken Rhinefrank, Columbia Power Technologies, Inc. - Advanced Direct-Drive Generator for Improved Availability of Oscillating Wave Surge Converter Power Generation Systems
V.R. Ramanan, ABB, Inc. - HydroAir Power Take Off System
Gary Pearson and George Laird, Dresser-Rand Group, Inc. - Power Take-off System for Marine Renewable Devices
Jarlath McEntee, Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC - Advanced Technology Integration and Demonstration (FY16 FOA 1418 Topic Area 1 Awards Overview)
Alison LaBonte, GFO (FOA), DOE Program Manager - Efficient and Reliable Power Take-Off for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting
Lei Zuo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - System Agnostic Switched Reluctance Linear Generator for WECs
Alan McCall, Dehlsen Associates, LLC
Survivability
- Overview of Survivability
William McShane, U.S. Department of Energy - Improved Survivability and Lower Cost in Submerged Wave Energy Device
Mike Morrow, M3 Wave LLC - Numerical Modeling and Experimental Validation of Extreme Conditions Response for the Centipod WEC
Alan McCall, Dehlsen Associates, LLC - Survivability Enhancement of a Multi-Mode Point Absorber
Tim Mundon, Oscilla Power, Inc.
System Innovation
- Structured Innovation
Jochem Weber, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Jesse Roberts, Sandia National Laboratories