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Image courtesy of Dr. Maricarmen Guerra Paris.
Maricarmen Guerra Paris
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
“For me, it has been exciting to learn how to use new instruments and to test how the different instruments and techniques, that we typically use in the field, work and compare in both controlled environments and energetic tidal channels. This research matters because turbulence measurements are difficult in highly-energetic environments, turbulence varies spatially and in time, and it is not easy to accurately capture its variability.”Image
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Image courtesy of Biome Renewables.
Testing of a New Turbine Blade Design and Blade Materials
Because there’s not yet a standardized, optimal way of extracting power from tidal currents, many tidal industry technologies are currently being tested around the world. The Testing of a New Turbine Blade Design and Blade Materials project used Canada’s largest university aquatic research facility – Dalhousie University’s Aquatron – to demonstrate the potential of a new hydrokinetic tidal turbine design.Image
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Image courtesy of Dr. Etienne Mfoumou.