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  • Hydrogen for Heat: Utilizing Hydrogen for Long-Term Energy Storage in Northern Climates

    Creator:
    Villaverde, Gertrude
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    A long-term energy storage technology is necessary to utilize Oregon’s curtailed renewable energy, an issue the state faces, even with a low percentage of renewable energy in the energy mix. This report proposes a system design that details how hydrogen power-to-gas technology can be used in conjunction with the existing...
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    current natural gas appliances and blends up to 8.7% are within energy content limits set by the Oregon

  • The introduction of renewable wave energy to the existing power grid

    Creator:
    Ruthruff, William Arthur
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    Wind energy is a cornerstone to the world of renewables. It is widely used in many parts of the world as a clean and effective form of power generation. However, wind power has a number of drawbacks, which limits its use in many regions. Solar power has been used not...
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    renewables. Wave energy can be a major contributor to the Oregon power grid in the near future, and with

  • Homeland Security Aspects of Oregon State’s Wave Energy Project

    Creator:
    Palmer, Thomas W.
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    Wave energy has a promising future, especially for the Pacific Northwest, and Oregon, pioneering the way to meet Oregon’s goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025. The project represents a significant ability to harness the untapped potential energy of ocean waves, and maintains the potential to replace standard power sources...
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    . Title: Homeland Security Aspects of Oregon State’s Wave Energy Project. Abstract Approved

  • Performance Analysis of a Utility-Scale Wave Energy Converter

    Creator:
    May-Varas, Nicholas A.
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    A six degree of freedom (6DOF) point-absorber wave energy converter (WEC) called LUPA is being developed at Oregon State University. This research focused on analyzing a full- scale LUPA, called LUPA20, to answer the following questions: 1) How does a full-scale WEC perform due to various factors; 2) What are...
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    wave energy testing site being constructed off the Oregon Coast. The sea states analyzed in the MAEP

  • Spectral Analysis of Upper Ocean Surface Wave Structure using χSOLO Floats in the Bay of Bengal

    Creator:
    Ball, Matthew S.
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    Surface waves play a vital role in air-sea interactions, and being able to easily measure them in-situ validates and improves predictive models. Here, we diagnose surface wave properties in the Bay of Bengal using modified vertical SOLO II profiling floats, which are regularly used as part of the Argo ocean...
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    the sub-surface area which acts to dissipate surface wave energy and mix the upper ocean [7]. Rough

  • Sports Nutrition for the Adolescent Athlete : The WAVE Pilot Study

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    Kummer, Alissa
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    Purpose: This study examines the nutrition knowledge/behaviors of adolescent athletes before/after a sport nutrition intervention. Methods: The WAVE pilot study intervention provided sport nutrition education to soccer players (n=26; 14-19y) through face-to-face lessons (Intervention group [IG]). Anthropometrics and the Sport Nutrition Questionnaire were done pre/post intervention, while the comparison group...
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    Sports Nutrition for the Adolescent Athlete: The WAVE Pilot Study by Alissa Kummer A THESIS

  • A fabrication study of surface acoustic wave devices for magnetic field detection

    Creator:
    Chin, Matthew L.
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    Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors are versatile devices that can be configured to sense a variety of measurands such as temperature and pressure. The potential use of surface acoustic wave devices for magnetic field detection is explored in this study. Compared to current magnetic field sensors, a sensor based on...
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    solids. The energy associated with Rayleigh (or surface) waves are confined to the surface. The wave

  • Locating and Observing Pulsars for Use in Gravitational Wave Detection

    Creator:
    Díaz, Ian H.
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    By studying gravitational waves, we can gain new insights into the merging events between massive objects such as black holes as well as neutron stars. Moreover, studying low-frequency waves allows us to observe merging events between supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, which in turn allows us to...
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    in Gravitational Wave Detection”, Undergraduate Thesis Proposal, Accessed Sept. 2020, Oregon State

  • Searching for Pulsars for Use in Gravitational Wave Detection

    Creator:
    Connolly, Genevieve J.
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    Gravitational waves (GWs) are disturbances in spacetime that can be caused by events such as black hole mergers and supernovae, as well as continuous sources such as binary star systems. GWs offer a new avenue of astrophysical research and can reveal information about the early universe. GW detection can be...
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    Searching for Pulsars for Use in Gravitational Wave

  • Oxidation Energies of Chromium and Tungsten Substituted Ni (111) Surfaces

    Creator:
    Roth, Anika
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    The corrosion and heat resistance properties of nickel alloys are hallmarks of their importance in infrastructure and industrial catalysis processes, but these properties are highly dependent on the chemical composition of the alloy surface. Density functional theory was used for analysis of surface oxidation of four combinations of chromium and...
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    submitted to Oregon State University Honors College in partial fulfillment of the