In July 2021, a commercial-off-the-shelf hydrophone was deployed in a free-drifting configuration to measure underwater acoustic emissions and characterize a 25 kW-rated tidal turbine at the University of New Hampshire's Living Bridge Project in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sampling methods and analysis were performed in alignment with the recently published IEC 62600-40 Technical Specification for acoustic characterization of marine energy converters. Results from this study indicate acoustic emissions from the turbine were below ambient sound levels and therefore did not have a significant impact on the underwater noise levels of the project site. As a component of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Triton Field Trials (TFiT) described in a paper published in a Special Issue of Journal of Marine Energy Science and Engineering, this study provides a valuable use case for the IEC 62600-40 Technical Specification framework and further recommendations for cost-effective technologies and methods for measuring underwater noise at future current energy converter project sites. The paper can be accessed in the link bellow.
Triton Field Trials (TFiT) underwater noise - University of New Hampshire Living Bridge turbine Processed Data
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OverviewCECHydrokineticLiving Bridge ProjectMHKMarineTFiTacousticacoustic emissionscross flow turbinecurrent energy converterdrifting hydrophoneenergyenvironmentalenvironmental monitoringhydrophonemarine energypowerprocessed dataraw datatidal turbineunderwater noise
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Dcat Issued2021-07-21T06:00:00Z
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Dcat Publisher NamePacific Northwest National Laboratory
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