Instrumentation

Instruments placed around a device to monitor it or its effects.

Monitoring instruments are typically used to monitor an operating device or its potential environmental effects. For example, extensive environmental monitoring is often required prior to and throughout the operation of any given marine renewable energy device, which typically necessitates the use of a variety of sensors (e.g., active acoustic, passive acoustic, optical) or an integrated instrumentation package. Instrumentation is also used to monitor the performance of a device to ensure it is operating correctly and to determine when maintenance is needed.

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Marine Energy Documents Related to Instrumentation

Tethys Engineering is a knowledge hub that contains documents and resources about the technical aspects of marine energy development. The table below contains all of the documents in the Tethys Engineering Knowledge Base associated with Instrumentation.

Total: 227

Title Author Date Type of Content Technology Collection Method Engineering
CRIMSON Project: Full-scale Turbine Demonstration By Tank Tests Falchi, M., Cronin, P., Dillon, C. Journal Article Current, Cross Flow Turbine, Tidal Lab Data, Full Scale Performance, Substructure
Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Project: Stage II - Experiments on unsteady loading in waves Authors Marouf, N., Han, Y., Willden, R. Conference Paper Current, Axial Flow Turbine, Tidal Lab Data, Modeling Performance, Structural
A Virtual Instrument Approach for Improved Tidal Turbine Wake Measurement Spence, N., Lam, R., Old, C. Conference Paper Current, Axial Flow Turbine Modeling Hydrodynamics
Co-evolution of Underwater Noise Measurements and Wave Energy Converter Design Polagye, B., Bassett, C., Mackey, L. Presentation Wave, Attenuator Field Data Acoustics
Evaluating the Hybrid Mobile Survey Method (HMS) for Tidal Energy Resource Assessments Kryl, M., Haas, K., Gunawan, B. Presentation Current, Tidal Field Data
Experimental Investigation of Heterogeneous Wave Energy Converter Arrays: Open-Source Data and Performance Comparisons Vitale, O., Brundan, A., Mandalam, Y. Presentation Wave, Point Absorber, Oscillating Wave Surge Converter Lab Data, Scale Device Array Effects
OpenCTD as a Low-Cost Tool for Small-Scale Wave Energy Characterization Wentzel, L., Taylor, T., Golden, R. Presentation Wave Field Data
Enabling the Ocean Internet of Things with Renewable Marine Energy Topper, M., Jarnoux, N., Costello, R. Journal Article Wave
On the design of a small scale tidal converter for long time deployment at sea Alizzio, D., Gurnari, L., Nardi, V. Journal Article Current, Kite, Tidal Scale Device Control, Structural
Advanced measuring techniques for tidal turbine blades during structural testing Thanthirige, T., Flanagan, M., Kennedy, C. Journal Article Current, Cross Flow Turbine, Tidal Full Scale Structural
Integration of electrical energy storage in wave energy hardware-in-the-loop test rigs Garcia-Rosa, P., Barrera-Cardenas, R., Alessandri, G. Journal Article Wave, Point Absorber Modeling Performance
Fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for the Energy Management of Hybrid Energy Storage System in Wave Energy Converters Zhu, X., Huang, X., Xiao, X. Journal Article Wave Modeling Performance
Osmotic energy-based systems for self-powered sensing Pan, J., Xu, W., Zhang, Y. Journal Article Salinity Gradient, Pressure-Retarded Osmosis Materials, Performance
Tidal Stream Technology and Project Development Final Lessons Learnt Report TIGER Tidal Stream Energy Enegiser Report Current, Axial Flow Turbine, Tidal Field Data, Test Center, Full Scale, Scale Device Grid Integration
A wave-powered capacitive deionization system with in-situ blue energy harvester Ren, J., Fang, L., Qu, H. Journal Article Wave Field Data, Lab Data Array Effects, Hybrid Devices, Hydrodynamics
On the utility of partially corrupted flow measurement data arising from adjacent acoustic Doppler current profilers for energy yield assessment Evans, L., Ashton, I., Sellar, B. Journal Article Current, Tidal Field Data
Using Fiducial Markers for Pose Estimation of an OSWEC in a Wave Tank Callisaya, F., Yau, H., Thiagarajan, K. Conference Paper Wave, Oscillating Wave Surge Converter Lab Data
Influence of powertrain components on noise from a pair of cross-flow turbines Jones, L., Crisp, C., Calandra, G. Presentation Current, Riverine Field Data Acoustics
Solid–Liquid Elastic Pendulum Triboelectric Nanogenerator Design for Application to Omnidirectional Blue Energy Harvesting Zhang, X., Su, Y., Dong, X. Journal Article Wave Lab Data
Tidal Energy Resource Assessment at the Atlantic Marine Energy Center’s Tidal Energy Test Site at Memorial Bridge in the Piscataqua River Bichanich, M., Wosnik, M., Neary, V. Presentation Current, Tidal Field Data, Test Center
Using Vision-Based Wave Height Sensors to Estimate Ocean Wave Field Chen, Z., Li, P. Presentation Wave Lab Data, Modeling
Comparative Evaluation of Ocean Current Flow Feature Detection Success based on Data Type within the Florida Straits DeVito, L, VanZwieten, J., Tang, Y. Presentation Current Field Data
Comparative Evaluation of Ocean Current Flow Feature Detection Success based on Data Type within the Florida Straits DeVito, L, VanZwieten, J., Tang, Y. Conference Paper Current, Ocean Current Field Data
On the Performance of a Horizontally Mounted ADCP in an Energetic Tidal Environment for Floating Tidal Turbine Applications Dillenburger-Keenan, J., Miller, C., Sellar, B. Journal Article Current, Axial Flow Turbine Field Data
Post Access Report: MADWEC Techno-Economic Analysis University of Massachusetts Report Wave Modeling Grid Integration, Hybrid Devices, Performance
Performance of three hydrophone flow shields in a tidal channel Cotter, E. , McVey, J., Weicht, L. Journal Article Field Data
Paimpol-Bréhat testing, power curve accreditation and data sharing Coquet, R. Report Current, Cross Flow Turbine Field Data, Full Scale Materials, Substructure
Post Access Report: Assessing cost-effective spatially distributed current measurements from microFloat swarms for tidal energy resource characterization and model validation Applied Physics Laboratory (APL-UW) Report Current, Tidal Field Data, Modeling Hydrodynamics
Structural testing and numerical modelling of a glass fibre-reinforced composite demonstrator for turbine blades Jiang, Y., Finnegan, W., Kelly, C. Conference Paper Current, Tidal Lab Data, Modeling Materials, Structural
Performance Assessment of a Multi-Rotor Floating Tidal Energy System Kaufmann, N., Starzmann, R., Al-Kahli, N. Conference Paper Current, Tidal Field Data, Full Scale Performance
The application of temporal gating in the measurement of response amplitude operators Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Cohen, N. Conference Paper Wave Lab Data, Modeling
Wake characterization of tidal turbines in the Pentland Firth using vessel-mounted ADCP measurements Huchet, M., Droniou, E., Perez, L. Conference Paper Current, Tidal Field Data Hydrodynamics
Test Procedure 3 – Recommendations for nonconventional tidal energy converters resource measurement for power performance Dibb, C. Report Current, Axial Flow Turbine, Kite
T.1.7.3 - Test Procedure Report 4 Recommendations and lessons learnt for ADCP deployments Dibb, C. Report Current Field Data
OTEC and Advanced Deep Ocean Water Use for Kumejima: An Introduction Martin, B., Okamura, S., Yasunuga, T. Conference Paper OTEC, Closed-Cycle Field Data, Full Scale Grid Integration, Performance
Toward the Instrumentation and Data Acquisition of a Tidal Turbine in Real Site Conditions Murray, R., Simms, A., Bharath, A. Journal Article Current, Tidal Field Data Materials, Substructure
A data-driven long-term metocean data forecasting approach for the design of marine renewable energy systems Penalba, M., Aizpurua, J., Martinez-Perurena, A. Journal Article Current, Wave Field Data, Modeling Performance
Mini-DAQ: A lightweight, low-cost, high resolution, data acquisition system for wave energy converter testing Bosma, B., Coe, R., Bacelli, G. Journal Article Wave
Open Water Data Acquisition on a Vertical-Axis Tidal Turbine Bharath, A., Ross, H., Nichols, C. Presentation Current, Cross Flow Turbine, Tidal Field Data Performance
Ocean Testing of Hydrokinetic Turbines Schurtenberger, W. Presentation Current, Tidal, Ocean Current Field Data Performance, Structural
Operation of a tidal turbine from a moored vessel in Agate Pass, WA Bassett, C. Presentation Current, Tidal Field Data Acoustics, Performance
Mini-DAQ: A lightweight, low-cost, high resolution, data acquisition system for wave energy converter testing [Presentation] Bosma, B., Coe, R., Bacelli, G. Presentation Wave Lab Data Control, Hydrodynamics
T1.7.3 Test Procedure Report 2 IEC TS62600-200 Feedback and Recommendations for Floating TEC Incident Resource Measurement for Power Performance Assessment Dibb, C. Report Current, Axial Flow Turbine, Kite
Maximizing tidal energy conversion by adopting hydraulic transformation and LMI based robust control Yin, X., Pan, L., Lei, M. Journal Article Current, Tidal Modeling Control, Structural
Ocean energy applications for coastal communities with artificial intelligence: a state-of-the-art review Zhou, Y. Journal Article Current, Wave, Salinity Gradient, OTEC Control, Grid Integration, Performance
HarshLab Benguria, P. Presentation Field Data Mooring
Power Production from Produced Waters via Reverse Electrodialysis: A Preliminary Assessment Cosenza, A., Campisi, G., Giacalone, F. Journal Article Salinity Gradient, Reverse Electrodialysis Lab Data Performance
Quantifying Background Magnetic Fields at Marine Energy Sites: Challenges and Recommendations Grear, M., McVey, J., Cotter, E. Journal Article Current, Tidal Field Data
Bio-inspired Salinity-gradient Power Generation with UiO-66-NH₂ Metal-Organic Framework based Composite membrane Yao, L., Li, Q., Pan, S. Journal Article Salinity Gradient, Reverse Electrodialysis Lab Data Materials, Performance
Novel sensors: drones for tidal stream current measurements Swansea University Presentation Current, Tidal Field Data, Modeling
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