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Nova Southeastern UniversityNSUWorksThe OTEC Liaison NSU Digital Collections4-1-1980Volume 4, Number 4 (April 1980)The Solar Ocean Energy LiaisonFollow this and additional works at: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_otec-liaisonPart of the Energy Policy Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Natural ResourcesManagement and Policy Commons, Oceanography Commons, Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons,Science and Technology Studies Commons, and the Water Resource Management CommonsThis Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in TheOTEC Liaison by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact nsuworks@nova.edu.NSUWorks CitationThe Solar Ocean Energy Liaison, "Volume 4, Number 4 (April 1980)" (1980). The OTEC Liaison. Paper 32.http://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_otec-liaison/32Solar OCEAN E-NERGY Liaison 7TH ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE DRAWS LARGE ATTENDANCE INCORPORATING The OTEC Liaison VOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 April 1980 The 7th Annual Energy Technology Conference and Exposition (ET7), held in Washington DC March 24th to 26th, has grown not only in number of atten-dees, but also in stature. With over 6,000 in attendance, the meeting was marked by more than 200 exhibiting organizations of national and international scope. But the major change, related by those who had attended earlier meetings, was the replace-ment of smaller exhibitors of such items as wood-burning stoves by larger firms, many with multi-booth exhibits . (continued on Page 3) OTEC-1 CLOSE TO SEA TRIALS: The above photograph shows a heat exchanger (condenser) being lowered into the converted Navy tanker Cepachet, now renamed OTEC-1. The OTEC-1 Early Ocean Test Program Platform is expected to begin sea trials in June. • Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison INCORPORATING The OTEC Liaison AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER ENGAGED AS LIAISON FOR ALL FORMS OF SOLAR ENERGY FROM THE SEA, INCLUDING: OTEC (OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION) WAVE - TIDAL - CURRENT OFFSHORE WIND - BIOMASS SALINITY GRADIENTS VOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 April 1980 EDITOR/PUBLISHER Richard Arlen Meyer TYPESETTER AND COpy EDITOR Shelly Treshansky ART DIRECTOR Pamela Greenfield BUSINESS MANAGER Kathleen Guido SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Mildred Ward Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison is published monthly by Popular Products Incorporated at 1303 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA. Phone (312) 427-3000. Printed in USA. Copyright 1980 by Popular Products Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois. All rights reserved. Contents of this newsletter may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without permission. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison will not assume any responsibility for manuscripts or photos either left or submitted on speculation. Subscription prices are listed below: United States and possessions: one year $125, two years $200. Foreign: Add $15 per year for air mail. Single copies: US $10.50 per copy. Foreign $11.25 per copy. ISSN: 0162-8755 Page 2 COMMERCIAL OTEC PLANT IN IVORY COAST NEARS DESIGN COMMITMENT " Cost Sharing by DOE Since October, rumors have circulated that DOE's Bennett Miller made a trip to Abdijan, Ivory Coast in September for discussions regarding a cost-sharing pro-posal for design of a commercial OTEC plant to be built there. Possessing a high delta-T due to its warm equatorial sur-face waters and narrow continental shelf, Abdijan was also the site of a French plant over forty years ago. It has now been confirmed that Miller did, in fact, make the alleged trip, and that a proposal has been under consideration for many months involving DOE's willing-ness to fund 70% of a $1 million design study, the balance to be borne by the Ivory Coast Government. The President of the Ivory Coast has been personally involved in the negotiations. A consortium of European companies has also been negotiating with the Ivory Coast for a similar cost-sharing agreement. The US proposal has been pursued pri-marily by Pacific Power and Protein of New York, though other American and European forms are also involved in the project. The favored concept for the Ivory Coast project involves a bottom-mounted, land-based plant near shore, with power cables for direct transmission of electricity. Mari-culture ponds are also included in the pro-posed plant design, expected to be in the 25-40 MW range. The proposed plant would be shore-based and closed-cycle, using plate-type heat exchangers, and built on a site in Abdijan adjacent to existing transformers and high-voltage transmission lines. As the project becomes finalized, OE will bring readers additional details. • QUEST DOES COVER STORY ON OTEC Ouest devoted a portion of their Au-tumn 1979 issue to an article on OTEC by Robert Douglass titled "OTEC: Solar Energy From the Sea". The illustrated 28-page story, while published in a TRW-sponsored magazine, provides an overall history, technological details, and an over-view of OTEC. Copies may be obtained from Ouest Magazine, TRW Defense and Space Systems Group, One Space Park, Mail Station E 2/9063, Redondo Beach, California 90278. OE, which only recently became aware of the article, has a limited number of cop-ies available to subscribers, and will for-ward one on receipt of $3 to cover postage and handling . NEW BOOK DETAILS WORLD POTENTIAL OF OCEAN ENERGY A new hard-cover book entitled Marine Sources of Energy, authored by Jacques Constans, formerly Deputy Director Gen-eral of EUROCEAN (the consortium of European organizations organized to devel-op ocean resources), is a complete over-view of ocean energy and its international potential. The 168-page book analyzes the tech-nical feasibility and cost benefits of marine energy sources and their capacity to inte-grate into industrial development. Meth-ods for the advancement of safe energy sources from the sea are documented along with seven sources of ocean energy. Constans is now Vice-President for Science and Technology and International A ffai rs of The Cousteau Society. The book is forwarded by Jacques Cou-steau, who notes that marine biomass en-ergy is equivalent to the energy produced by about 20,000 nuclear plants, and the combined potential of winds, currents, and waves is equivalent to the energy produced by 370,000 nuclear plants. OTEC- as most readers of OE already know- has the greatest potential of all. Cousteau equates the solar energy absorbed by ocean surface waters to that produced by about 55 million nuclear plants. Marine Sources of Energy, published in co-operation with the United Nations' Of-fice for Science and Technology, is avail-able from Pergamon Press, Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523. WOODS HOLE DEVOTES ENTIRE ISSUE TO OCEAN ENERGY Oceanus, The International Magazine of Marine Science published quarterly by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has devoted its entire Winter 1979/80 issue to ocean energy. The profusely-illustrated 68-page issue details all of the major forms of ocean energy, including OTEC, current, salinity gradients, waves, offshore winds, marine biomass, and tides. The issue leads off with an article on OTEC entitled" Energy From Ocean Ther-mal Gradients", by Dr. Robert Cohen of DOE's Ocean Systems Branch. Copies may be obtained from Oceanus, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543. Specify Volume 22, Number 4. • DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE SEVENTH ANNUAL OCEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DC JUNE 2ND THROUGH JUNE 7TH • Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison Chicago 60605 April 1980 • General Electric's display included a new bottom-standing OTEC plant model. ~COLD WATER ~WARM WATER DTEC Another view of Westinghouse's exhibit. Westinghouse devoted a major part of their display at ET7 to OTEC. (continued from Page 1') OTEC Well Represented While last year's conference also had significant numbers (about 5,000 persons), OTEC was completely unrepresented. This year, however, firms such as GE and West-inghouse apportioned major space to their OTEC work. TRW, Lockheed, and Sea En-ergy Corporation also exhibited. At least a third of the Westinghouse ex-hibit-large unto itself- was devoted to OTEC, with several new models and visual representations that undoubtedly will also appear at the 7th Ocean Energy Confer-ence in June. (See photos.) Bottom-Standing Trends The General Electric exhibit was espe-cially noteworthy because of its initial dis-play of an elaborate model of a bottom-standing OTEC plant, illustrated in this issue. This is still another indication of a leaning away from floating concepts by many private contractors, not to mention current French designs. OTEC, as well as other ocean-energy advocates (Sea Energy-see photo- dis-plated wave-energy concepts) should con-sider exhibiting at and/or attending the next meeting (ET-8). Contact the organ-izers, Government I nstitutes Incorporated, 4733 Bethesda Avenue Northwest, Wash-ington DC 20014, (301) 656-1090, for further information. Sea Energy Corporation's wave-energy concept, illustrated by a working model. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison Chicago 60605 April 1980 Page 3 US GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT INVITATIONS AND CONTRACT AWARDS Listed below are contract awards and procurement invitations related to OTEC in particular and ocean resources in general culled from the Commerce Business Daily. This is not to be construed, however, as a complete list. • Mar 3: Preparation of a Solar Study With Appropriate Design Analyses, Drawings, and Economic Analyses on the Resource Man-ager's Office at the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Project (now under construction): This study will be performed to determine potential energy conservation that can be achieved with solar energy. The study will require the preparation of documentation in the form of an engineering/economic analysis to determine the extent to which solar-energy systems are cost-effective for each of the following systems: (a) water heating, (b) space heating, (c) water heat-ing and space heating, (d) water heating, space heating, and space cooling. The study will include comparisons and recommenda-tions of solar energy with fuel oil, natural or LPG, and electricity. The solar-energy system(s) recommended for final design will be based on the results of the engi-neering/economic analysis of various suit-able solar-energy utilization systems. Rea-sons for rejecting other systems from fur-ther consideration will be noted in the an-alysis.This will serve to document that suit-able engineering/economic analyses have been made and also to indicate clearly the methods followed and the basis for the decisions made regarding the solar-energy systems. The engineering/economic analy-sis for each solar-energy project will in-clude a brief description of systems consid-ered, a brief pro/con discussion leading to the recommended system(s), a cost esti-mate, payback period, and the life-cycle cost of the conventional/solar cost as mod-ified by these instruction(s) system(s). The Initial screening of firms will be based on Page 4 the professional qualifications necessary for satisfactory performance of the services re-quired. Significant evaluation factors, in order of relative importance to the Gov-ernment, are listed in Note 62. This will be a lump-sum contract, and it is anticipated that work will begin in May 1980. Savan-nah District, Corps of Engineers, Attention AECU, Savannah, Georgia 31402, Tele-phone (912) 233-8822, Extension 465. • Mar 5: External Fluid Mechanics of Ocean Thermal Energy Power Plants: Mod-ification A004, Contract DE-AC-02-78-ET-20483, $117,000, awarded to the Mas-sachusetts I nstitute of Technology, Cam-bridge, Massachusetts 02139. • Mar 12: Continuation of Experimental Studies on Wind- Excited Waves: Contract N0014-75-C-0285, February 15th, 1980 (no RFP), for $119,993, awarded to the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711. Mar 12: Further Development of Deep-Ocean Mining' Technology Transfer Ap-proaches: Examination of Non-Licensee Vis-A-Vis Licensee Sources: Contract J-01-00037, for $60,296, awarded to Sci-ence Applications Incorporated, 1200 Pros-spect Street, PO Box 92038, La Jolla, Cali-fornia 92038. Bureau of Mines, Washing-ton DC. Mar 18: Definition Study of Modular-Integrated Solar Energy Systems: RFP 8-1-0- FA-00353. Date of issuance on or about March 21st, 1980. Closing date 45 days later. For copies of R FP contact A. L. Bowling, AP34, Phone (205) 453-0588. Procurement Office, Attention AP34/A. L. Bowling, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812. Mar 21: Offshore Traffic Information System Study (OTIS): Contract DTRS-57-80-C- 0066, February c 25th, 1980 (TSC/542-0009-GMF), $69,905, awarded to Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Incorporated, PO Box 504, Sunnyvale, Cal-ifornia 94086. Department of Transporta-tion, Transportation Systems Center, Ken-dall Square, Massachusetts 02142, Code DTS-852. DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE SEVENTH ANNUAL OCEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DC JUNE 2ND THROUGH JUNE 7TH Mar 24: Theoretical Studies of the Dy-namics of Ocean Circulation: Contract N00014-80-C- 0113, February 20th, 1980 (no R FP), for $627,143, awarded to Texas A&M Research, PO Box H, College Station, Texas 77843. Mar 24: Additional Research on Ocean Surface Thermal Scanning: Contract N-00014-79-C- 0066, February 26th, 1980 (no RFP), for $152,000, awarded to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wiscon-sin 53706. Mar 24: Further Research on the Alloy-ing Effects in TI: Contract N00014-76-C-0409, February 27th, 1980 (no R FP), for $324,718, awarded to Carnegie-Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. • Mar 24: Further Research on Tidal Grav-ity Inversion: Contract N00014-75-C-0605, February 27th, 1980 (no R FP), for $106,662, awarded to the Trustees of Co-lumbia University in the City of New York, Box 20, Low Memorial Library, New York, New York 10027. Office of Naval Research, 800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, Vir-ginia 22217. Mar 26: Thermoregulation of Fish and Turtles in Thermally Stressed Habitats: Modification A002, Contract DE-AC-02-76-EV-02502, for $41,000, awarded to the Research Foundation of the State Uni-versity of New York, Buffalo, New York 14222. Mar 31: Continuing Research in Ocean Circulation: Contract N00014-75-C-0201, March 4th, 1980 (no R FP), for $ 239,119, awarded to Florida State University, Of-fice of Contracts and Grants, 405 Westcott Building, Tallahassee, Florida 32306. • Mar 31: Water Electrolysis Hydrogen Generation Development Program: Con-tract DE-AC-02-78-ET- 26202, $789,862, awarded to General Electric Company, 50 Fordham Road, Wilmington, Maine 01887. US Department of Energy, Brookhaven Area Office, Upton, New York 11973. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison Chicago 60605 April 1980 • 

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