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Jarlath McEntee
Ocean Renewable Power Company jmcentee@orpc.co November 1-3, 2011
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Challenges
At present deploying, mooring and retrieval in fast moving water requires specialized equipment and expertise Expensive and limited equipment Project aims to define loadings on moored hydrokinetic structures, to develop innovative mooring systems, and to reduce cost associated with installation and retrieval
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Technical Approach
Identify the loads acting on the mooring system
Steady fluid loads Dynamic fluid loads Dynamic inertial loads
Scale model testing Collect geophysical and geotechnical data Design, build and deploy field size module
Design of OCGen sub-module Design of mooring system Deployment and monitoring of system
Design, build and acquire mooring system for full OCGen Power System
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ORCAFlex
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ORCAFlex Inputs
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Budget: No budget variances to date. Portion of the project budget expended to date: $276,123.78
Budget History
FY2009 DOE $0 Cost-share $0 DOE $222,274.25 FY2010 Cost-share $0 DOE $53,849.53 FY2011 Cost-share $0
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Successfully utilized a commercially available CFD code to predict fluid induced loads on the OCGen module
Modular, scalable modeling technique
Developed an analytical tool to predict the dynamic behavior of a tethered floating system in transient flows Identified limitations with a commercially available mooring design code and found path to address these Performed preliminary scale model tests Now gathering the required geophysical information for the proposed field test site, and beginning the design process for the field test module
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Milestone 1 Load modeling 2 Dynamic Stability 3 Dynamic analysis of Mooring System 4 Scale Model Testing 5 Geophysical Surveys 6 Cable & anchor design 7 Mooring experiment 8 Design of OCGen Mooring System 9 Reporting
Completion Date July 2011 July 2011 July 2011 July 2011 March 2012 September 2012 October 2012 August 2013 September 2013
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Challenges to Date
Understanding and providing accurate inputs for the ORCAFlex code (apparent mass, etc)
Investigating other analysis codes
Project received NEPA categorical exemption 14 months after project start date.
Rescheduled project activities
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Next Steps
Completion of Analysis for OCGen sub-module Design of cable and mooring system for sub-module Field deploy, test and monitor a sub-module for 3 months (starting June 2012) Design of a full scale mooring system for the OCGen power system (Fall 2012) Procurement and installation of OCGen Power System (Spring 2013)
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Next Steps
Utilization of alternative codes to Flow-3D and ORCAFlex
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