Advanced Control of the Azura Wave Energy Device Award Number: DE-EE0007693 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Water Power Program Date: 12/15/2016 Location(s): OR Office(s): Golden Field Office
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Advanced Control of the Azura Wave Energy Device
Award Number: DE-EE0007693
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Water Power Program
Date: 12/15/2016
Location(s): OR
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI) to design and validate the performance for an advanced controller for the Azur4a wave energy device.
The Azura device was developed, in part, through a previous DOE grant. In DOE grant #DE-EE0006923, NWEI fabricated a 1/40th scale model of the Azura device. That model is approximately 1 meter long by ½ meter wide and contains an electric motor PTO. That model was then tested, as part of the previous grant, at the Hinsdale wave tank testing facility at Oregon State University. The Hinsdale facility is a purpose built wave tank testing facility that regularly tests wave energy device models such as the Azura.