Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems are based on utilizing the temperature difference between the warm surface water around 27ºC and the cold, 1000 meter deep bottom water at around 5ºC to produce energy.

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Creator

• Vacarez, Valentina
• Shum, Melody

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042618-162320

Advisor

• Guceri, Selcuk

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright