@inproceedings{1c8e3448805b49a3b7b7615d9d8b29e6,
title = "Committee v.4 offshore renewable energy",
author = "Zhen Gao and Bingham, {Harry B.} and David Ingram and Athanasios Kolios and Debabrata Karmakar and Tomoaki Utsunomiya and Ivan Catipovic and Giuseppina Colicchio and Rodrigues, {Jos{\'e} Miguel} and Frank Adam and Karr, {Dale G.} and Chuang Fang and Shin, {Hyun Kyoung} and Johan Sl{\"a}tte and Chunyan Ji and Wanan Sheng and Pengfei Liu and Lyudmil Stoev",
note = "Funding Information: In addition to offshore wind, wave and marine current energy, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) utilizes the temperature difference between the sea surface water and the colder, deep water to generate electricity. However, an OTEC device requires temperature differences of at least about 20 degrees Celsius to be effective (Mofor et al., 2014), which leads to the resources only applicable in the tropical waters. Moreover, a water depth of 1000m is expected to reach such level of temperature difference, which indicates a high cost for the need of extremely long pipes. A few small-scale land-based prototypes of OTEC have been built and tested, including the Okinawa Prefecture OTEC Demonstration Plant with two 50kW units in Japan (OTEC Okinawa, 2017) and the 105kW demo plant built by Makai Ocean Engineering and operated in Hawaii (Techxplore, 2017). Large-scale OTEC plants are under design and development, which includes a 16MW plant project that will be developed by Akuo Energy and DCNS in France with funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s NER300 programme and a 10MW pilot plant that will be designed by Lockheed Martine in a project sponsored by the Reignwood Group in China (Mofor et al., 2014). In addition, MW-scale OTEC plant concepts with floating support structures (such as semi-submersible or mini-spar) have also be proposed (Stoev et al., 2017).; 20th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress, ISSC 2018 ; Conference date: 09-09-2018 Through 14-09-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-61499-864-8-193",
language = "English",
series = "Progress in Marine Science and Technology",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "193--277",
editor = "Kaminski, {Mirek L.} and Philippe Rigo",
booktitle = "Specialist Committee Reports",
}
