Abstract
An experiment to test conclusively the feasibility of open-cycle ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) to generate electricity has been designed by Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, Colo. Following five years of gathering data and modeling systems, and with funding from the Department of Energy, SERI will conduct the experiment, as yet unscheduled, at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii. NELH has been involved in ancillary studies of OTEC for some time and already has in place some of the equipment needed for the experiment. The design calls for a 165-kW, open-cycle system. That size is considered the smallest that can be used satisfactorily to validate the basic design and also permit scaleup to projected commercial systems with generating capacities in the range of 5 to 15 MW. Interest in open-cycle OTEC systems was revived in 1978, when DOE funded analyses of the concept with an eye to cost-effectiveness. Work by several groups, including Westinghouse, the ...
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