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Feasibility of Multi-Use Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Platforms

Copping, Andrea E. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000196723470)·Farr, Hayley K. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000216548156)·Rumple, Christopher R. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Park, Kyungmin [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000294346445)·Yang, Zhaoqing [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000192570796)·Ticona Rollano, Fadia M. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:000000017124924X)·Anderson, Curtis J. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]
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Tropical islands and coastal communities in the United States and internationally suffer from high energy costs, unreliable electrical supplies, poverty, and underemployment, which are all being exacerbated by climate change. Multi-use Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems could align with the goals and values of these underserved and remote communities as scalable platforms that can provide baseload power, freshwater, and food, as well as potentially support new industries. The cold, nutrient-rich deep seawater needed for OTEC’s power cycles has many promising byproduct applications such as seawater air conditioning (SWAC) for residential and industrial cooling, enhancing aquaculture farms (e.g., cooling and nutrients for seaweed, shellfish, finfish), producing freshwater through desalination, and generating efuels such as ammonia and hydrogen.

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Copping, Andrea E. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000196723470), Farr, Hayley K. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000216548156), Rumple, Christopher R. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Park, Kyungmin [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000294346445), Yang, Zhaoqing [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000192570796), Ticona Rollano, Fadia M. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:000000017124924X), Anderson, Curtis J. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]. 2025-06-30. Feasibility of Multi-Use Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Platforms. https://doi.org/10.2172/3376188

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