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WEC-SIM Validation Testing Plan FY14 Q4

Ruehl, Kelley M.

The WEC-Sim project is currently on track, having met both the SNL and NREL FY14 Milestones, as shown in Table 1 and Table 2. This is also reflected in the Gantt chart uploaded to the WEC-Sim SharePoint site in the FY14 Q4 Deliverables folder. The work completed in FY14 includes code verification through code-to-code comparison (FY14 Q1 and Q2), preliminary code validation through comparison to experimental data (FY14 Q2 and Q3), presentation and publication of the WEC-Sim project at OMAE 2014 [1], [2], [3] and GMREC/METS 2014 [4] (FY14 Q3), WEC-Sim code development and public open-source release (FY14 Q3), and development of a preliminary WEC-Sim validation test plan (FY14 Q4). This report presents the preliminary Validation Testing Plan developed in FY14 Q4. The validation test effort started in FY14 Q4 and will go on through FY15. Thus far the team has developed a device selection method, selected a device, and placed a contract with the testing facility, established several collaborations including industry contacts, and have working ideas on the testing details such as scaling, device design, and test conditions.

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TYPE Other Report YEAR 2016
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WEC-sim phase 1 validation testing-numerical modeling of experiments

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Ruehl, Kelley M.; Strofer, Carlos A.M.; Bosma, Bret; Yu, Yi H.

The Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim) is an open-source code jointly developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It is used to model wave energy converters subjected to operational and extreme waves. In order for the WEC-Sim code to be beneficial to the wave energy community, code verification and physical model validation is necessary. This paper describes numerical modeling of the wave tank testing for the 1:33-scale experimental testing of the floating oscillating surge wave energy converter. The comparison between WEC-Sim and the Phase 1 experimental data set serves as code validation. This paper is a follow-up to the WEC-Sim paper on experimental testing, and describes the WEC-Sim numerical simulations for the floating oscillating surge wave energy converter.

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TYPE Conference Poster YEAR 2016
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Electromechanical emulation of hydrokinetic generators for renewable energy research

OCEANS 2013 MTS/IEEE - San Diego: An Ocean in Common

Ruehl, Kelley M.; Jepsen, Richard A.; Roberts, Jesse D.; Glover, Steven F.; Horry, Michael L.

The pace of research and development efforts to integrate renewable power sources into modern electric utilities continues to increase. These efforts are motivated by a desire for cleaner, cheaper and more diverse sources of energy. As new analyses and controls approaches are developed to manage renewable sources and tie them into the grid, the need for these controls to be tested in hardware becomes paramount. In particular, hydrokinetic power is appealing due to its high energy density and superior forecastability; however, its development has lagged behind that of wind and solar due in part to the difficulty of acquiring hardware results on an integrated system. Thus, as an alternative to constructing an elaborate wave-tank or locating a power lab riverside, this paper presents a method based on electromechanical emulation of the energy source using a commercially available induction motor drive. Using an electromechanical emulator provides an option for universities and other laboratories to expand their research on hydrokinetics in a typical laboratory setting. © 2013 MTS.

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TYPE Conference YEAR 2013
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