The past month has been even more hectic with final assembly of our 1/20th scale model - many components had to be “adjusted” to fit at the same...
Water Power Technologies Office
June 20, 2016
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The past month has been even more hectic with final assembly of our 1/20th scale model - many components had to be “adjusted” to fit at the same time as we were completing our input for Technical Gate 3. Byron Barnes has worked into wee hours many nights.
Photo 1 shows the bare device core on the left with the bow Styrofoam cutout in the background.
In photo 2 you can see the assembly being fiberglassed - inverted on our custom build frame/test cart.
Photo 3 shows SEWEC sitting snugly in the crate (thanks Patrick) before shipment to the University of Maine for pretesting in the last week of June.
Also in June our calibration team at San Jose State University swung into high gear, measuring and calibrating SEWEC’s PTO system. Professor Liat Rosenfeld’s team - Tamir Alquran and Brian Hulliger followed Nick Gray’s test protocols to measure and document the position/flow/pressure drop data that will be used to measure power absorption in wave tank testing. Photo 4 shows the SEWEC valve and orifice plates being calibrated in the SJSU lab.
On June 28th we splash and then start to tune and pre-test SEWEC 1/20 in Orono, Maine. Thanks to all hardworking team members and contributors who got us here on time. Our next update will show SEWEC 1/20 in her element, sucking power out of the waves. Stay tuned…
Message from Sea Energies_SEWEC - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYuU-w3ENCM&feature=youtu.be
Reflections on WEP_SEWEC - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aivajG85n0&feature=youtu.be