SBIR/STTR Research Award
Recovery Act - Development of a Wave Energy-Responsive, Self-Acuated Blade Articulation Mechanism for an OWC Turbine
Award amount
$149,789Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Concepts NREC, LLC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- 2010-06-06
- UEI
- PKMJNWK4V2U1
- Solicitation number
- DE-PS02-09ER09-27
- Topic code
- 06 c
Research abstract
An oscillating water-air column (OWC) is one of the most technically viable and efficient options for converting wave energy into useful electric power. However, there is a need to increase the overall energy conversion efficiency of the OWC system from its current 25% efficiency to improve the economics necessary for an OWC to compete effectively with other alternative forms of renewable energy. A potential improvement of up to 40% in wave energy recovery has been determined by CN based on its thermo-fluids computational model of an OWC system. The exact amount of improvement is dependent on the off-design operation of the OWC as it attempts to recover energy from a wide range of wave conditions. CN is working with Oceanlinx, Ltd., a world renowned developer of OWC systems to advance the design of Oceanlinx
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Cost-Effective RBC for High-Power X-Ray Applications
- Space Exploration Hydrogen Boost Pump
- Advanced sCO2 Turbine for Concentrated Solar Power Application
- Integrated Cooling and Secondary Flow Design System
- Integrated Brayton Cryocooler for LOx and LH2 Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Intelligent Trace Analysis for Automatic Extraction of Analog Seismographic Data
- Reliability Enhancement and Preliminary Ocean Demonstration of Low Cost Wave Energy Harvester
- Reliability Enhancement and Ocean Demonstration of a Low Cost Wave Energy Harvester
- Recovery Act - A Variable-Geometry Oscillating Wave Surge Converter Paddle for Maximum Power Output and Survivability
- High-Dynamic-Range, Rad-Hard, Time-Resolved, Correlated X-ray Photon Detector
Research funding history
68 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2024). Reported award amounts total $20,616,344. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation