GC22C:
Renewable Energy: Marine and Hydrokinetic I


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Session ID#: 59166

Session Description:
This session will focus on the science, technology, and policy issues of renewable energy with a special focus on marine, 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 on aquatic and benthic species, altered hydrodynamics, water quality, and sediment transport, or changes to currents, wave regimes, and tidal ranges), ocean thermal energy conversion, environmental monitoring, device-performance evaluation, resource assessment, grid integration, characterization of potential energy, forecasting on multiple time scales, impacts of energy extraction, system planning, risk evaluation, and uncertainty are all of interest. Studies in riverine environments and of wave-energy converters are also appropriate. The field of renewable energy is growing with multi-disciplinary approaches welcomed and encouraged. International and early career researchers are particularly invited to submit. This session is coordinated with the other two sessions on Renewable Energy: Wind and Solar.
Primary Convener:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Vincent S Neary, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Maria L Beninati, Bucknell University, Mechanical Engineering, Lewisburg, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  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:  Vincent S Neary, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, and Public Affairs

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • PA - Public Affairs

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

International Standards and Certification for the Marine Renewable Energy Industry (Invited) (360927)
Paul William Staby, Resolute Marine Energy, Inc, Boston, MA, United States
Tidal Energy Conversion at an Estuarine Bridge – Integration of a Tidal Turbine into the Living Bridge Project (Invited) (426825)
Martin Wosnik1, Ian Gagnon2, Kaelin L Chancey3, Kenneth Baldwin1, Erin Bell4 and Living Bridge Project Team, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Mechanical Engineering, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States
Hydrodynamic performance and near wake characterization of axial flow hydrokinetic turbine (391248)
Luksa Luznik, Ethan Lust and Karen Ashby Flack, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States
The Effects of Unsteady Flow Conditions on the Performance of a Cross Flow Hydrokinetic Turbine (352975)
Karen Ashby Flack1, Ethan Lust1 and Benjamin H Bailin2, (1)US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States, (2)US Navy, Charleston, SC, United States
Wake Characterization of a Tidal Stream Turbine under Yaw (437672)
Pranav Kashyap Modali, Ashwin Vinod and Arindam Banerjee, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Numerical simulations of marine hydrokinetic devices for improving their representation in ocean circulation models (419725)
Karina Andrea Soto, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Cristian R Escauriaza, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Santiago, Chile and David H Richter, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States
Development of a high-resolution wave hindcast model to support wave resource assessment in the U.S. Alaska coast (462841)
Wei-Cheng Wu1, Zhaoqing Yang1, Taiping Wang2, Gabriel García-Medina1 and Luca Castrucci2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, United States

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