GC54B:
Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar, Marine, and Open Topics III

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Session ID#: 15826

Session Description:
The session will focus on the science, technology and policy issues of wave, current, and tidal energy conversion for electric utilities. Studies focusing on environmental effects of marine hydrokinetic energy devices (e.g., acoustic and electromagnetic influences to aquatic and benthic species, altered hydrodynamics, water quality, and sediment transport, or changes to currents, wave regimes, and tidal ranges), environmental monitoring, device performance evaluation, and resource assessment are of interest. Wave-energy converters will also be a focus. Studies in riverine environments are also appropriate. Assessment of policy or decision making associated with implementation of renewable energies are also welcome, but may be categorized into the Integration, Policy and Open Topics session.
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Maria L Beninati, Bucknell University, Mechanical Engineering, Lewisburg, PA, United States, Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States and Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Chairs:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States and Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Investigating the Trade-Off Between Power Generation and Environmental Impact of Tidal-Turbine Arrays Using Array Layout Optimisation and Habitat Sustainability Modelling. (138418)
Roan Jay du Feu, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Simon Wolfgang Funke, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway, Stephan C Kramer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Jon Hill, University of York, Environment Department, York, United Kingdom and Matthew D Piggott, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Combined impacts of tidal energy extraction and sea level rise in the Gulf of Maine (179599)
M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering and Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States and Boma Kresning, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States
Discrete Element Method Simulations of the Interactions of Woody Debris with Hydrokinetic Energy Infrastructure (191115)
Jeremy Kasper1, Anton V Kulchitsky2, Jerome Johnson3 and Paul Xavier Duvoy3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, NH, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Development of a Wave Resource Classification System (182981)
Seongho Ahn1, Kevin A Haas1, Vincent S Neary2 and Sara Bredin2, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Quantifying Uncertainty of Wind Power Production Through an Analog Ensemble (135777)
Mehdi Shahriari, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Hub height optimization to increase energy production of wind farms (142693)
Ahmadreza Vaselbehagh, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Cristina L Archer, University of Delaware, Center for Research in Wind, Newark, DE, United States

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