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PT J
TI Sea states influence on the behaviour of a bottom mounted full-scale twin vertical axis tidal turbine
BT 
AF Moreau, Martin
   Germain, Gregory
   Maurice, Guillaume
   Richard, Aloïs
AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:2;4:2;
FF 1:PDG-REM-RDT-LHYMAR;2:PDG-REM-RDT-LHYMAR;3:;4:;
C1 Ifremer, Marine Hydrodynamic Laboratory, LHyMar, 150 Quai Gambetta, 62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
   HydroQuest SAS, 16 Chemin de Malacher, 38240 Meylan, France
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   HYDROQUEST, FRANCE
SI BOULOGNE
SE PDG-REM-RDT-LHYMAR
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   copubli-france
IF 5
TC 8
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00795/90736/96368.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Tidal energy;Vertical axis turbine;Cross-flow;In-situ measurement;Waves effect
AB As only a few tidal turbine developers have reached full-scale installation, the community lacks clear feedback on the validity of development tools to predict in-situ behaviour. From 2019 to 2021, HydroQuest tested its first 1 MW capacity bottom mounted twin vertical axis tidal turbine (VATT) OceanQuest at the Paimpol-Bréhat site, off the coast of Brittany, France. Thus, two years of operational data are available to analyse the behaviour of the full-scale VATT at sea. After describing the environmental conditions and the average performance of the machine, the wave effect on the turbine response is studied. The presence of strong waves multiplies almost by a factor 3 the fluctuation intensities of the torque, the rotational speed of the rotors and the turbine drag, without affecting significantly the mean quantities. The strong coherence between the loads and velocity spectra in the wave frequencies range indicates that the increase of fluctuation intensities is directly due to the periodic loads of surface waves. 
PY 2022
PD DEC
SO Ocean Engineering
SN 0029-8018
PU Elsevier BV
VL 265
UT 000874271400002
DI 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112582
ID 90736
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