Just because it performs in the flume, doesn’t mean it’ll perform in open water. PMEC experiments are helping to accurately extrapolate lab data to commercial scale.
A series of experiments in the Alice C. Tyler flume at the University of Washington assessed performance of a cross-flow turbine under speed- or torque-regulated flow.
The team set out to evaluate changes in cross-flow turbine power output and structural loads at various stages of barnacle colonization on turbine blades.
