• Open Water Data

    RealTide ADCP01/02 NW Dep5

    Field-Measurements aligned to the implementation of a tidal energy converter’s power performance assessment (IEC 62600-200 PPA Type A)
    Source data (external link): https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/4422

    As part of the ETI Reliable Data Acquisition for Tidal Platform (ReDAPT) project a multi-year field measurement campaign was carried out, comprising multiple seabed deployments of acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) proximal to an operating 1MW commercial prototype tidal turbine. This dataset comprises two ADCP deployments that targeted the (at the time) recently released IEC TS 62600-200:2013 Power Performance Assessment guidance. The deployment followed the guidance for a Type A implementation, i.e., ADCP instruments positioned inline and upstream of the tidal turbine rotor plane - in this case capturing the ambient flow conditions when the tide approaches the rotor plane from the north west. The data has been re-processed and QC’d under the EC H2020 RealTide project.
      

    Main Reference

    Sellar, Brian G., Wakelam, Gareth, Sutherland, Duncan R. J., Ingram, David M. and Venugopal, Vengatesan, 2018 "Characterisation of Tidal Flows at the European Marine Energy Centre in the Absence of Ocean Waves," Energies 11(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/en11010176, https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/1/176

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