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Annual Report- Part III - Florida Energy Systems Consortium

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Title: Uni-Directional Impulse Turbine for the Powering of Offshore Monitoring <strong>Systems</strong>PI: Zhihua Qu, Co-PI: Kuo-chi Lin – UCFDescription: Numerical modeling and experimental testing of turbine for wave energy conversion. TheUniversity of Central <strong>Florida</strong> and Harris Corporation have joined efforts to design, build and analyze awave powered abandoned oil well monitoring system for use in the Gulf of Mexico. This system proposes afully automated oil leak detection system which is self-powered by the local ocean energy which isconverted to electricity, conditioned and sent from the surface buoy to the ocean floor to supply power foran abandoned oil well monitoring system.Industry <strong>Part</strong>ner: Harris Corporation91

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