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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The OTEC Liaison by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER ENGAGED AS LIAISON FOR THE COMMUNITY OF OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION DOE's OTEC Integration Meeting Held in Washington The OTEC Integration Meeting called For Bill Richards, new chief of DOE's by the Department of Energy and hosted Ocean §ystems Branch, who called the by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics lab meeting, it was a good short course on January 23rd through 25th in Washington OTEC and a chance to tell OTEC contrac seemed to serve its purpose well. tors of his management strategy (see the For the first time ever - and in what Richards interview in this issue). And, it may turn into an annual event - each of gave OTEC contractors a chance to press the contractors involved in government the flesh and get in a word or two with funded work on Ocean Thermal Energy Richards in the hallways, keeping him lit Conversion was able to tell and hear of the erally spinning from one conversation to scientific, engineering, and institutional re another. search projects that; when integrated, will Some 60 presentations of a hardware make OTEC work in a commercial sense. and software nature were given by as many The value of the meeting was perhaps people to a larger audience that included best stated by C. R. Schaeffner of Global at least one representative of an interested Marine Development, Project Manager for utility. All DOE program managers were USSR INITIATES RESEARCH the OTEC -1 program. Schaeffner told present and participated to some extent. IN OCEAN ENERGY AND OTEC The OTEC Liaison that the chance to hear While many of the speakers indicated of all the work is particularly valuable to that there are no apparent scientific bar It has been known for some time that him at this time because, unless things are riers to OTEC, and that the highest hurdles Russia has been watching the development incorporated into the design of OTEC-1 will probably be institutional and eco of ocean energy in general and OTEC in within the next six months, they'll be lost nomic, some progress is being made there particular, and rumored that some studies to the first ocean tests that are intended to as well. are underway. Now a letter received by demonstrate the feasibility of the OTEC For instance Byron Wash om reported the editor of TO l advises that the lab concept. "When we get that platform in that Fairchild Industries' attempts to work oratory of Ocean Phase and Energy Con the water," Schaeffner explained, "all eyes with Hawaii and Florida utilities to realize version has been established as part of the will be on us-and we can't afford to miss market potential for OTEC may soon be Pacific Oceanological Institute in Vladi anything." (continued on Page 2) vostok headed by Dr. Victor A. Akulichev, Deputy Director of the Institute. Dr. Akulichev also advises TOl that he is a convener of the Symposium "on the study of the thermal and hydrodynamic energy resources of the ocean" to be held September 5th, 1979 as part of the XIVth Pacific Science Congress in Khabarovsk, USSR. The OlEC Liaison TOl will bring readers more details of OTEC research in the USSR as it becomes available. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 January 1979

Sealift Command; and John S. Pottinger. Fleet Superintendent, Department of Com· THE NAVY TANKER CHEPACHET will become the first floating test platform in DOE's merce, Maritime Administration. The revamped Chepachet will be anchored off the ocean thermal energy conversion program. Signing papers for DOE to take custody cost of Hawaii. Global Marine will take about 18 months to turn the vessel into a of the ship from the mothball reserve fleet in Suisun Bay, California, are (I-r) George floating power plant. The Chepachet will carry a one-megawatt generator for testing W. Phillips, Jr., Vice President of Global Marine Development, Inc. which will convert and may later add a 40-megawatt generator. The project is headed by James the vessel under a $25 million DOE contract; Jack Blasy, Acting Deputy Manager for Hartman, director of DOE's OTEC-I (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) Project Of DOE's San Francisco Operations Office; Capt. M. H. Lasell, Navy Department, Military fice at Canoga, Park Calif. (LBL Photos) I DOE'S OTEC OBJECTIVES TOL INTERVIEWS DOE'S AND STATUS CONFERENCE BILL RICHARDS The OTEC Liaison HELD IN WASHINGTON Bill Richards, new chief of DOE's Ocean AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER (continued from Page 1) ENGAGED AS LIAISON FOR THE Systems Branch, describes himself as a expandoo to the Guam Power Authority COMMUNITY OF OCEAN THERMAL "bug on management". Beyond that, he's and the Government of the Northern Mari ENERGY CONVERSION out to end run US dependence on foreign anas-by request of those governments. fuels. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 While some pointed out that top-level Just how might Richards' image of him January 1979 management in utilities is beginning to self ultimately affect the community of listen more seriously to OTEC proponents, OTEC contractors? others warned that OTEC must make sense EDITOR/ PUBLISHER Well, for starters, Richards seems intent to the fuel planner to have any commer Richard Arlen Meyer on focusing his energies on developing a cial future. domestic fuel source that doesn't just Cost and performance parameters will TYPESETTER promise, but delivers. His message to OTEC be coming in over the next few years, and AND COPY EDITOR contractors is to prove the concept - from in most cases OTEC will be competing with Shelly Treshansky science through engineering to marketing future energy sources that still have some - in a systematic way the political system scientific problems to be resolved. That can absorb. ART DIRECTOR may give it an edge. But, warned Mitre's Pamela Greenfield In his attempt to give a badly-needed W. Jacobsen, OTEC contractors need to focus to the program, and to define a com take care at each step along the way to BUSINESS MANAGER mercialization purpose for federal dollars development. He fears that the OTEC com Robert Bernstein spent, he is challenging federal OTEC con munity is going to have only one chance to tractors to the following tasks: prove the merits of the process. If s~me - Enumerate what is definitely known. SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER thing goes wrong, Jacobsen emphaSized, Kathleen Guido - Enumerate what is definitely not "fusion could be a very serious competitor known. in the early 2000 time frame". The OTEC Liaison is published monthl y by - Prioritize the unknowns according to But, as Global Marine's Schaeffner and Popular Products Inc., 1910 North Elston, possible impact on the next decision. several of his colleagues pointed out, meet Chicago, Illinois 60622, USA , (312) 489- - State the minimal essential knowledge 5900. Copyright 1979 by Popular Prod ings such as this OTEC status conference required prior to making the next decision. ucts, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. All ri ghts re should help keep everybody on the ball. - Recommend how to go from what we served. Contents of this newsletter may know to the minimum-essential-knowledge not be reproduced either in whole or in • point in terms of time, manpower resources, TEN OTEC RESEARCHERS part without permission. Printed in USA. and dollars. LOST AT SEA OFF HAWAII Unsolicited manuscripts must be accom Richards says that once he has that input panied by a stamped self-addressed enve from OTEC contractors, he'll have the am In mid-December the research vessel lope for return. The OTEC Liaison w i~l .not munition he needs to move the program up Holo Holo disappeared off Hawaii. The assume responsibility for any unsolicited the priority-issues ladder. And, he'll have 96-foot steel-hulled vessel, chartered by manuscripts or photographs. The OTEC the basis for showing what the dollar costs the University of Hawaii to conduct OTEC Li aison will not assume responsibility for of delivering the energy capability are. experiments, left no trace of wreckage, manuscripts or photographs left or sub One of the management techniques that with the sole exception of a single small mitted on speculation. Subscription prices: Richards is exploring is to let government wooden instrument box. United States and possessions: one year representatives and OTEC contractors in Aboard were 10 people, including Nor $ 95. Foreign: Add $1 5 for air mail. Single teract through an Ocean Energy Systems man Laird and Robert L. Charness of copies: US $ 8 each, Foreign $8.75 each. Council. The Council, still in the idea stage, NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental ISSN : 0162 - 8755 would have a government group, a working Laboratory of Seattle; Gary Neimeyer, group, and an action group. The govern Robert Harvey, and Michael Allen of the ment group would serve as a forum for University of Hawaii; James Sanduski and expressions of interest or concern by rep SUBSCRIPTION RATE Stephen Shannon of the Lawrence Berke resentatives from various federal agencies; INCREASE IN 1979 ley Laboratory; and three crew members. the working group would perform tasks; Due to inflationary increases in the cost An investigation is being conducted by and the action group would review the of paper, printing, postage, and mai ling, the US Coast Guard, which convened hear working group's efforts and attempt to subscription rates for The OTEC Liaison ings on January 9th in the Federal Court insure that the concerns of the government will be raised to $95 annually on all new Building in Honolulu. Further details of group are met. subscription orders and renewals received this tragic accident will be reported in the Richards comes across as being very after January 1st, 1979. February issue of TO L . enthusiastic about the efforts he is making to help put OTEC on a track that will take it to the threshold of an objective he has OTEC ARTICLE IN PREPARATION This issue of The OTEC Liaison is quite set for ocean systems : to become competi FOR COUSTEAU ENCYCLOPEDIA tardy, due partly to the holiday season a!ld tive for the US market in the 1990s. staff illnesses, but primarily to two major But, Richards seems to stop short of The Cousteau Encyclopedia of the Sea, bli zzards. being called an all-out proponent of a to be published by the Fabri Company in " Jan uary 1979 will be remembered as particular approach, such as OTEC. One Milan, Italy, will contain 24 volumes and having the worst combination of sno~ and gets the feeling that his primary interest Cousteau's memoirs. One section, being cold in Chicago's history," says a National is in seeing the Os expand its sphere of prepared by Dr. Charles W. finkl of The Weather Service official. When this publi capabilities to produce energy. And, if Encyclopedia of Earth Science of. Fort cation can manage movi ng its offices to OTEC doesn't measure up to the manage Lauderdale, Florida and the Ocean SCience Hawaii, we will no longe r have any such ment test-the commercial delivery-he'll Center of Nova University of Dania, Flor most likely be putting his efforts behind reason for tardiness. ida, deals with the limits of technology and something else that begs a chance to prove will include color photos of OTEC plants it can deliver. and related data. Page 2 The OTEC Liaison Chicago 60622 January 1979 • 1980 SOLAR BUDGET UP 24% FEDERAL SOLAR PROGRAM Amid what the Carter Administration calls a "leveling off" of obligations for Solar Technology and Biomass energy research and development, the ($ In Tenths of Millions) Fiscal Year 1980 budget request increases overall support for solar R&D by 24%. IT 1979 FY 1980 Longer-term solar-related technology de BA BO BA BO velopment and applied research increases Solar Ther mal Electric ....••. . ..•... $102 . 1 $ 95 . 3 $121. 0 $l33.5 by 40%. The Department of Energy's ob Photovoltaic Energy Development . . .. . 105 . 8 93 . 3 l30.0 117.0 ligations for all energy R&D are estimated Wind Energy Conversion ...... 61.9 54.6 67.0 66 . 5 at $4.7 billion in the 1980 budget, just Ocean Sys terns ..•...... • ...... •...• 38 . 9 42.7 35 . 0 39.0 $ 23 million above the 1979 obligations. Solar Energy Research Institute The increases for solar reflect the Ad Building .. • ...... 3.0 2. 0 27.0 22.0 Biomass ...... • ...... •••. 43 . 2 27 . 6 57.0 55 . 0 ministration's intention to focus its sup Program Direction & Support ...... 3 . 5 3.6 4.0 4.0 port on long-range R&D in areas of na TOTAL, SOLAR TECHNOLOGY AND BIOMASS 358.4 319 . 1 441.0 437.0 tional interest "for which industry is not likely to provide adequate support". Solar Applications Solar- energy technology is getting the "greatest emphasis and the largest budget Sys terns Development ...... 41.0 40 . 1 47.0 43.0 increase" among energy R&D in the 1980 Demonstration: Agricultural and budget request, according to the Federal Industrial Process Heat '" ...... 11.0 11.2 14.0 12 . 5 Demonstrations : Re s idential and Government's special analysis of its budget. Commercial Buildings .••.. . ••...... 55.0 69 . 0 35.5 44.0 "This emphasis at a time of constrained Demonstrations: Federal Buildings .. 25 . 7 15.,5 23 . 5 25.0 budget growth reflects the Administra Demonstrations: Federal Photo- tion's belief that solar energy can, in time, voltaic Utilization Program ...... 15.0 16.1 12. 3 make a significant contribution as an en CotIlDlercialization .. . ..•...... • • . . • 2 . 7 ,9 5 , 0 3.1 Market Development and Training ..... 16 . 6 12.1 27.0 20.1 vironmentally attractive, renewable energy Program Direction & Support . ...•.... , 2.5 3.2 3 . 6 3 . 6 supply", the budget documents say. Areas TOTAL, SOLAR APPLICATIONS ...... 169.5 168.1 155 . 6 163.6 of solar technology receiving particular emphasis include photovoltaics and bio Other DOE Solar Related Funding . .... ~ ~ 43.8 chemical and photochemical conversion of TOTAL DOE SOLAR FUNDING . , ...... 559 . 4 515.9 646.0 644.4 organic wastes and crops to fuel. Recent estimates from the President's Solar Do Other Federal Solar Funding * mestic Policy Review indicate that present solar- energy trends may supply as much as Agency for International Development . 16. 0 5 . 0 42.0 22 . 0 Department of Agriculture ...... • 22 . 0 22 . 0 27.0 27.0 13% of projected US energy demand by Small'Business Administration ...... 5.0 3.0 14.0 11.0 the turn of the century. Federal Buildings Investments ...... 20 . 0 15.0 25.0 25.0 The Department of Energy's Fiscal Year Tennessee Valley Authority ...... 8 . 0 8 . 0 16.0 16.0 1980 budget provides $597 million for the Tax credits ...... 88 . 0 88 . 0 74.0 74.0 TOTAL, OTHER FEDERAL SOLAR FUNDING . 159.0 141.0 198. 0 175.0 development and application of various solar technologies, a 13 % increase over TOTAL FEDERAL SOLAR PRClGRA!1S .. . .. the amended Fiscal Year 1979 level. That breaks down as follows: * Includes tax Credits and TVA fu,nding which are off budget.

Budget Authority (In Millions) central receiver at Barstow, California. lion for construction on the OTEC -1 plat - $47 million for advanced research in form using the T -2 tanker, and $0.2 mil FY 1979 FY 1980 novel photovoltaic materials and systems lion for capital equipment), and advanced with high-risk, high-potential payoff. R&D to get $6.1 million ($5.8 million for Solar Technology $315 $383 - $17 million to test the MOD-1 wind operating expenses and $0.3 million for Biomass 44 58 machine and construct the MOD -2 mega capital equipment). Solar Applications 169 156 watt scale machine. Looking at the solar-applications pro Total DOE Direct - $23 million to complete the Ocean gram, which deals primarily with the re Solar Funding $528 $597 Thermal Energy Conversion test platform moval of economic and institutional bar and test related components. riers to near-term applications, major pro Or, breaking it down even more specific - An unidentified amount for detailed gram elements in Fiscal Year 1980 include: ally, the budget documents provide this design of an integrated biomass system - $47 million for systems development look at the Department of Energy request: which includes collection, transportation, and engineering for passive solar applica (See "Federal Solar Program" in this issue.) and conversion of biomass into medium tions, agricultural and industrial process In addition, environmental aspects and fuel gas. heat, and active heating and cooling sys basic research related to solar receive a re Ocean systems is the one area of "solar tems. quest of $49 million in Fiscal Year 1980, technology and biomass" to show a de - $73 million for demonstration activi up from $31 million in Fiscal Year 1979. cline before inflation, as B/A is set to drop ties in residential, commercial, and federal With those crosscutting areas factored in, to $35 million and B/O to $39 million. buildings, and agricultural and industrial DOE solar funding totals $559 million in Under this, DOE's budget request calls for process heat. Fiscal Year 1979 and $646 million in Fis project management to get $5.1 million - $32 million for solar commercializa cal Year 1980. ($4.9 million for operating expenses and tion activities including barrier assessment, Specific solar and biomass technology $0.2 million for capital equipment), defi market development, training programs, development activities identified as being nition planning to get $1 million, technol and the preparation of commercialization funded in Fiscal Year 1980 include: ogy development to get $7.4 million, en plans for solar hot water, passive solar, and - $37 million for continued construc gineering testing to get $15.4 million ($4.5 wind. tion of the 10-megawatt solar-thermal million for operating expenses, $10.7 mil- (continued on Page 4)

The OTEC liaison Chicago 60622 January 1979 Page 3 I (continued from Page 3) CONTRACT FOR OTEC SOLAR ENERGY Tucked in with lump funding for "other HEAT EXCHANGERS AND CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM technology programs" are dollars for inte HELD IN MIAMI IN DECEMBER gration of wind and solar photovoltaics DOE is negotiating a contract with the into the electric grid system and develop Westinghouse Electric Corporation for de The Solar Energy and Conservation ment of acquifer storage and other thermal taile<'l design and construction of a heat Symposium and Workshop, co-sponsored storage technologies for solar heating and exchanger for the Ocean Thermal Energy by DOE's Solar Energy Division and the cooling, solar thermal power, and indus Conversion (OTEC) program. The shell School of Continuing Studies of the Uni trial-waste heat recovery. and-tube-design evaporator and condenser versity of Miami, was held at the Konover Overall, the charts in this issue show will be built by the Westinghouse Steam Hotel in Miami December 11th through how the Carter Administration views the Turbine Division at lester, Pennsylvania 13th. Attendance was low, running only federal solar program, government-wide. for approximately $2.3 million. It will be about half of expectations. tested aboard DO E 's OTEC -1 ocean test A full day's session, chaired by Ms. Gay UNDERSEA TURBINES STUDIED platform, which is scheduled to begin op Heit lavi of ERDI, Incorporated of Pitts AS POSSIBLE ENERGY SOURCE erating near Hawaii in 1980. burgh, was devoted to OTEC. Speakers The feasibility of tapping energy from The Westinghouse design was selected included Bill Sherwood of DOE; Fred the Gulf Stream with gigantic turbines through competition that began in August Dunning, Jr. of the Santa Fe Corporation moored beneath the ocean's surface will be 1977. The heat exchangers, the second to of Alexandria, Virginia; R. J. Pont of lock studied as part of a $230,000 contract be tested aboard OTEC -1 , are rated at .13 heed; Byron Washom of the Fairchild awarded by DOE to AeroVironment Inc. megawatts. The testing will provide data Stratos Division of Manhattan Beach, Cali of Pasadena, California. for the design of much larger units for use fornia; and David G. Jopling of the Florida The concept envisions as many as 250 in future OTEC power plants. Power and Light Company of Miami. turbines, each 500 feet in diameter, posi The OTEC-1 test platform is being con Jopling's presentation elicited a great tioned in a single array roughly 15 to 20 structed for DOE by the Global Marine deal of discussion as he expanded on the miles offshore. Set in motion by the steady Development Company of Newport Beach, need to establish an interface between five-to-six-knot undersea current, each California. utilities, industry, and DOE. He felt that ocean turbine would generate 75,000 kilo "private industry should take the lead watts of electricity delivered onshore. from the Federal Government" and not AeroVironment, an energy and envi vice-versa, as has usually been the case ronmental consulting and manufacturing • The Rand Corporation is undertaking in the OTEC program to date. firm, has conducted environmental and a study of OTEC. Further details will be While some of the listeners felt that hydrodynamic studies of the turbine con published in the February issue of TOl . Jopling's talk was "not negative, but real cept since early 1977. istic", this writer disagrees. Jopling's com Under terms of the eight-month con • Deep Oil Technology lost a section of ments were all negative, with nothing posi tract, the firm will analyze such factors as pipe being tested under its cold-water-pipe tive brought out whatsoever. One of his the elastic behavior of the large turbine contract with DOE. Full details will appear comments was "everything isn't all black", blades in the ocean environment and the in our next issue. while in speaking of potential faults of stability of the moored system. potential OTEC plants he even referred to • John A. (Jack) Blasy has been named the likelihood of "hotel wastes" from op NEW DOE COMMITTEE FORMED Deputy Manager of DOE's San Francisco erating plants and the possibility of "leav Assistant Secretary for Environment Operations Office, having served in an act ing a screwdriver in the walls ". Ruth Clusen is organizing environmental ing capacity since January 1978. Blasy While it is certainly appreciated that co-ordination committees within DOE to was formerly with the Washington offices Mr. Jopling took the time to attend and track development of four major program of ERDA and the Atomic Energy Com deliver a paper, some tendency toward areas: nuclear, fossil, solar/geothermal, mission, which he joined in 1965. positiveness would be welcome. and consE'.(vation. The committees will review and monitor current analyses being undertaken by DOE staffers for 32 sepa rate energy-technology projects. The solar/ geothermal committee will be concerned with solar heating and cooling, wind en ergy conversion, photovoltaics, fuels from biomass, agricultural and industrial process heat, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, solar thermal power systems, and geo thermal.

UNDERSEA CABLE REVIEW An excellent article on undersea cables, an area which is being carefully researched by OTEC planners, appears in the October November 1978 issue (Volume 12, Number 5) of the Marine Technology Society Jour nal. It is entitled "Structural Stresses in Undersea Cables: Their Effect on Relia bility", and is authored by Robert Bridges, currently employed by the Bendix Corpo ration in California. Readers interested in this aspect of OTEC development will find this article worthwhile reading. Contact the Marine Technology Society, 1730 M Street Northwest, Suite 412, Washington Byron Washom of the Fairchild Stratos Division addresses the Miami meeting. DC 20036, (202) 659-3251. Session Chairman G. H. Lavi of ERDI, Incorporated looks on. Page 4 The OTEC Liaison Chicago 60622 January 1979 I "CENSORED" CANADIAN ARCTIC OTEC PROPOSAL PAPER NOW AVAILABLE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FY 1980 BUDGET As mentioned earlier in TOl (see the ($ IN MILLIONS) "Newsbriefs" in the May 1978 issue). a paper investigating the possibilities of ENERGY SUPPLY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS an OTEC-type power plant in the Cana dian Arctic, using the great delta - T be FY 1979 ESTIMATE FY 1980 ESTIMATE BA BO tween ocean waters and surrounding air, BA BO was denied inclusion in the Fifth OTEC SOLAR APPLICATIONS Conference held in Miami last February. TO l tracked the paper down, and in Systems Development ••••••••• $ 41.0 40.0 $ 47.0 43.0 January received permission from the Demonstrations University of Western Ontario to publish Buildings ••••••••••••••••• 55.0 69.0 35.5 44.0 the abstract. The paper is authored by Agricultural and Industrial Process Heat ••••••••••••• 11.0 1l.2 14.0 12.5 Ron Green and R. K. Swartman, and is Federal Photovoltaics ••••• 15.0 16.1 0 12.3 entitled "An Ocean - Thermal- Difference Market Development and Power Plant in the Canadian Arctic". The Training ••••••••••••••••••• 16.6 12.1 27.0 20.1 paper was given in August at the Annual Program Direction ••••••••••• 2.0 2.5 2.9 2.9 Conference of the Solar Energy Society of Canada, Incorporated. TOTAL SOLAR APPLICATIONS 140.6 150.9 126.4 134.8 Repeated below is the abstract. Copies SOLAR TECHNOLOGY of the complete paper may be obtained from R. K. Swartman, Faculty of Engi Technology Support and neering Science, University of Western Utilization •••••••••••••••• 6.7 4.6 0 0 Ontario, london, Canada N6A 5B9, or Solar Ther~al Systems ••••••• 100.1 94.0 121.0 133.5 directly from TOl when requests are ac Photovoltaics ••••••••••••••• 103.8 91.9 130.0 117.0 companied by a check for $4 to cover Wind Energy ••••••••••••••••• 60.7 53.8 67.0 66.5 copying and postage costs. Ocean Systems ••••••••••••••• 38.2 42.2 35.0 39.0 Solar Energy Research The concept of using the temperature Institute •••••••••••••••••• 3.0 2.0 27.0 22.0 differences of ocean waters has attracted Program Direction ••••••••••• 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1 considerable attention. Between the Tropic TOTAL SOLAR TECHNOLOGy •••• 315.4 291.5 383.1 381.1 of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, where 90% of the earth's surface is water, the surface water never drops below 2!JOC. Cold waters from the Poles move toward the Equator, sliding under the warm sur • A group of architects and engineers US GOVERNMENT face layer. The cold waters, at depths of based in the Virgin Islands, the site of PROCUREMENT INVITATIONS as little as 2,000 feet, are a nearly infinite Dr. Oswald Roel's mariculture studies AND CONTRACT AWARDS heat sink at 2D ta :JOC, located directly with deep nutrient-rich water, are investi beneath a nearly infinite surface-heat reS gating the possibility of an "upwelling Listed below are procurement invita ervoir at 270 to 290C. The heat reservoir air- conditioning project". The same group tions and contract awards related to OTEC is continualiy replenished by solar energy. organized a conference at the Sheraton in particular and ocean resources in general A heat engine operating across a 2JOC St. Thomas December 8th on the subject culled from the Commerce Business Daily. temperature difference with a 2!JOC source of "Energy Self-Sufficiency and the Virgin This is not to be construed, however, as a would have a theoretical thermal effi Islands ". Speakers included Richard Holt complete list. ciency of 9%. of DOE; Dr. Michael Canoy, Director of A variation on the ocean-thermal-dif the Ecological Research Institute; and Pro Dec 14: Public Energy Education: Con ference concept for producing power in fessor Gifford Albright, of Penn State Uni tract EBlA-79-NPI- 004, 26 Feb 78. the Canadian Arctic is one which uses the versity'S Department of Architectural En Contracting Officer (Program Contact) cold atmosphere as the heat sink and the gineering. Richard Stone, Education Programs Di ocean water as the heat source. The aver vision, (202) 376-9180. Programs must be age temperature of the ocean water off • The January 6th issue of the Saturday national in scope. Both energy issues and shore from Resolute, NWT is -10C. The Review contained a cover story and special options and consumer/homeowner options average monthly air temperature is below section on oceans, and included an article may be addressed in project content. US -120 C for about eight months of the year, by SR reporter Susan Schiefelbein entitled Department of Energy, Office of Procure varying from -340 C upward. A heat en "Teaching Poseidon to Turn a Profit ". ment Operations, 400 1st St. NW, Wash gine operating across a 330C temperature A substantial portion of the article dealt ington DC 20545. difference with a -10C source would have with OTEC. Dec 15: Completion of TARPS Devel a theoretical thermal efficiency of 12%. opment, Test, and Evaluation and Estab It is proposed that propylene be used lishment of the Requirements for TARPS as the working fluid due to its desirable ---Limited Production and Fleet Introduction: thermodynamic and physical properties A contract is being negotiated exclusively under the design conditions. The feasi with the DCS Corporation, Arlington VA. bility of the concept lies in developing Dec 15: Logistics Support for the Do economic heat exchangers for this ex mestic Policy Review of Solar Energy Doc tremely rigorous application. ument: Negotiations are being considered with the OAO Corporation, Beltsville MD 20705, for Contract ET-78-C-01-3423. The Contract Specialist is Denise Byrd. (continued on Page 6)

The OTEC Liaison Chicago 60622 January 1979 Page 5 I (continued from Page 5) Dec 29: Studies in Research and Devel clude description of organization, key staff Dec 18: Oceanographic Research to opment for the Division of Energy Storage: member resumes, available facilities, previ Include Physical, Chemical, and Biolog Award will result from (Unsolicited Pro ous management contracts (by title, date, ical Oceanography, Environmental -Acou posal) Contract DE-AC-01-79ET-26303. amount, funding source, and brief descrip stics, Marine Geophysics, and Ocean En Negotiptions with Battelle Memorial in an tion of activity), and other pertinent bro gineering: Contract N00014-79-C-0004, ticipation of award of $999,000. US De chures or descriptive material. This ma 9 Nov 78 (no RFP), $1,449,363, awarded partment of Energy, Office of Procure terial will not be returned to the senders to Oregon State University, Corvallis OR ment Operations, 4001 st Street NW, Wash and should not contain any proprietary 97351. ington DC. or classified information. Responses should Dec 22: Developing Country Energy Jan 3: Multisite Sound Ocean Moni be addressed to Program Manager, I ndus Assessment: The work will be performed toring: Negotiations are to be conducted trial Plant Vessels, US Department of Com for the DOE Division of International Af with the Palisades Geophysical Institute, merce, Room 4610, Maritime Administra fairs. For each country selected under this 615 SW 2nd Avenue, Miami FL 33130. tion, Code M-920, 14th and E Sts. NW, program, an overall energy assessment will • Jan 4: Further Development of an Air Washington DC 20230. This is not a so be performed to present an integrated pic borne Subsurface Temperature Ocean Pro licitation for proposals, and there may ture of current and future energy demand, filer P00002: Contract N00173-77-C- not be a request for proposals resulting indigenous energy resources, capital and 0268 (RFP N00173-79-R-FM04), for from this source request. In the event that manpower requirements of energy, devel $77,486, awarded to Computer Genetics a future request for proposals is forthcom opment, environmental effects, and the Corp., 18 Lakeside Office Park, Wakefield ing, first priority will be given to sources potential contribution of new technolo MA 01880. responding to this request for information. gies . The assessment activity will be carried Jan 12: Further Research on Advanced Responses should be received by COB by out in two phases. The first phase will be Diving and the Development of Equip 9 Feb 79, however late responses may also a preliminary energy assessment based on ment for Man's Protection, Survival, and be considered. information and data available in the US Work in the Marine Environment: Nego Jan 18: Imaging Sensor for Ocean Sur from different sources. The second phase tiations are to be conducted with Battelle face Waves: Negotiations will be conducted will consist of in-country activity inter Columbus Laboratories, 505 King Ave ., with the Riverside Research Institute, 80 lacing with energy and economic develop Columbus OH 43201. West End Avenue, New York NY 10023, ment agencies of the country concerned, • Jan 12: Design, Development, Test, and for two months' effort. leading to a more complete overall assis Evaluation of Candidate Riser Cables for Jan 22: Fuel-Cell/Metal-Gas Battery tance activity in the area . The following. Application to the 10-40MW Modular Technology: Exploratory Development are candidate countries: Argentina, Co Experiment Plant: DOE is negotiating with Area PMS 79-99. Perform exploratory de lombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Paki the Simplex Wire and Cable Company, PO velopment on electro-chemical energy con stan, and Portugal. It is anticipated that Box 479, Portsmouth NH 03801. US De version fuel cells and metal-gas batteries, only two or three candidate countries will partment of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations components, and subsystems. Main inter be selected for energy assessments, and, Office, Contract Division, Attn: Stuart ests are in secondary nickel-hydrogen bat generally, it is DOE's intent to award only Phillips, PO Box E, Oak Ridge TN 37820. teries in both single-cell-per-pressure ves one assessment to each proposer. Joint Jan 15: Further Oceanographic Re sel and multiple-cell-per-pressure vessel ventures are encouraged. The average level search With Emphasis on Numerical Mod configurations. Goals for nickel-hydrogen of professional effort for each assessment eling, Ocean Circulation, Air-Sea Inter cells are 20 watt-hours per pound and up is expected to be six man-years or the actions, the Dynamics Biology, and Acou to 2,000 cycles in synchronous orbit, and equivalent over a period not to exceed 18 stic Structure of Gulf Stream Rings: Con 10 watt-hours per pound up to 30,000 months. However the level of effort for a tract N00014-75-C-0537, 29 Dec 78 (no cycles in low orbit. There is interest but specific assessment may vary in the range RFP), $661,760, awarded to Texas A&M no current work in nickel-hydrogen bat of 1 to 15 man-years. RFP EW 79-R- Research Foundation, College Station TX teries for non-space use, in silver-hydro 02-0001 will be issued shortly. Only 77843. gen batteries for space use, and in hydro written requests for the RFP will be ac Jan 15: Investigation of Ocean-Floor gen-oxygen fuel cells for space and non cepted. PI'ease submit your requests to the Processes and Acoustic Profiling of Upper space use. See notes, 31, 11 and the first following address: Allen Askew, Secretary, Ocean-Currents Effort: Contract N00014- paragraph of 68. This is a resynopsis and Proposal Evaluation Panel for RFP EW- 75-C-0152, 29 Dec 78 (no RFP), for correction of PMS 79-23. Also cancella 79 - R -02 -0001, US Department of En $107,795, awarded to the University of tion of PMS 79-98. Firms responding to ergy, 9800 S. Cass Ave ., Building 2, Room California at San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093. this announcement should indicate whe 1':'123, Argonne IL 60439. Jan 16: Thermoregulation of Fish and ther they are or are not a Minority Busi Dec 28: Further Research on Ocean Turtles in Thermally Stressed Habitats: ness Enterprise. Potential offerors that ography, Boundary Layer, and Current Modification A002, Contract EY-76-S- responded to the previous notification, Studies: Contract N00014-76-C-0004, 02-2502, $38,680, awarded to the Re PMS 79-23, need only indicate whether 12 Dec 78 (no RFP), $315,606, awarded search Foundation of the State University they are still interested in receiving the to the Trustees of Columbia University, of New York, Albany NY 12201. US De RFP. Closing date for submission of re Box 20, Low Memorial Library, New York partment of Energy, 9800 South Cass Ave., sponses is 20 days from publication of this NY 10027. Argonne I L 60439. notice. Sponsor: AFAPL!POE-1, Don Dec 28: Further Research on Ocean • Jan 17: Study for Identification and Warnock, (513) 255-6235. Directorate of Circulation and Physical-Chemical Proc Creation of Concepts for a Wide Variety R&D Contracting, Attn: ASD/PMR-1, WP esses in the Ocean: Contract N00014-76- of Candidate Industrial-Plant Vessels Which AFB, OH 45433. C-0226, 11 Dec 78 (no RFP), $565,625, Could Become New Business Ventures for Jan 22: Research Study of Advanced awarded to the University of Rhode Island, US Shipbuilding Yards: It should be em Sea-Based Alternative Concepts of Design Kingston R I 02881 . phasized that these sources must be capa for Post-1990 Period: Contract N00019- Dec 29: Support Services for National ble of multidisciplined analyses in market 79-C-0163, 29 Dec 78 (no formal R FO), Energy Analysis: RFPEJ-78-R-01-6641. surveys, large capital financing of water for $69,542, awarded to Northrop Corp., Requests must be in writing. No telephone borne or offshore systems, economics and Aircraft Group, Hawthorne CA. Contract requests will be honored. US Department technologies of industrial processes or ser N00019-79-C-0157, $69,994, awarded to of Energy, Office of Procurement Opera vices, environmental and safety regula Mc Donnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis MO. tions, PO Box 2500, Washington DC. Attn: tions, taxes and tariffs, international com Document Control Specialist. merce, and shipbuilding capabilities in the US. Capabilities information should in- The OTEC Liaison Chicago 60622 January 1979 Page 6 •