Marine hydrokinetic energy from western boundary currents

JM Bane, R He, M Muglia, CF Lowcher… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The kinetic energy in ocean currents, or marine hydrokinetic (MHK) energy, is a renewable
energy resource that can help meet global energy requirements. An ocean circulation model …

An imbalance fault detection method based on data normalization and EMD for marine current turbines

M Zhang, T Wang, T Tang, M Benbouzid, D Diallo - ISA transactions, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an imbalance fault detection method based on data normalization and
Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) for variable speed direct-drive Marine Current …

Rotor blade imbalance fault detection for variable-speed marine current turbines via generator power signal analysis

B Freeman, Y Tang, Y Huang, J VanZwieten - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine hydrokinetic (MHK) turbines extract renewable energy from oceanic environments.
However, due to the harsh conditions that these turbines operate in, system performance …

Physics-informed turbulence intensity infusion: A new hybrid approach for marine current turbine rotor blade fault detection

B Freeman, Y Tang, Y Huang, J VanZwieten - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Ocean current turbines (OCT) convert the kinetic energy housed within the earth's ocean
currents into electricity. However, OCT technologies used to harvest this energy are still at …

ν-gap metric based multi-model predictive control of an ocean current turbine system with blade pitch failures

EB Ondes, C Sultan, A Hasankhani, JH VanZwieten… - Ocean …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, a method of combining multiple linear models is developed and used by an
advanced model predictive control algorithm for ocean current turbine flight control. The …

Spatiotemporal optimization for vertical path planning of an ocean current turbine

A Hasankhani, Y Tang, J VanZwieten… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel spatiotemporal optimization approach for vertical path planning
(ie, waypoint optimization) to maximize the net output power of an ocean current turbine …

Numerical modeling of turbulence and its effect on ocean current turbines

P Pyakurel, JH VanZwieten, M Dhanak… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
An approach for numerically representing turbulence effects in the simulation of ocean
current turbines (OCT) s is described. Ambient turbulence intensity and mean flow velocity …

[HTML][HTML] Development of riverine hydrokinetic energy systems in Colombia and other world regions: a review of case studies

VH Aristizábal-Tique, AP Villegas-Quiceno… - Dyna, 2021 - scielo.org.co
At a global level, hydrokinetic power has been considered as a renewable energy source,
and it has become an attractive alternative for the rural electrification of non-interconnected …

Adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control for ocean current turbine-driven permanent magnet synchronous generator

Y Tang, Y Zhang, A Hasankhani… - 2020 American …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blue economy industries, such as aquaculture or deep sea mining, are moving further
offshore to take advantage of the vast scale of the ocean, but moving further offshore …

Modeling and numerical simulation of a buoyancy controlled ocean current turbine

A Hasankhani, J VanZwieten, Y Tang… - … Marine Energy Journal, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Increased global renewable power demands and the high energy density of ocean currents
have motivated the development of ocean current turbines (OCTs). These compliantly …