Abstract An offshore multipurpose floating platform (MPFP) combines different marine technologies to serve industry needs using one infrastructure; the aim of an MPFP is enlarging synthesis benefits and reducing negative impacts. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) in particular has attracted significant attention for its great potential low environmental risk. This research demonstrates sys...

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) produces electricity using the temperature difference between warm surface and cold deep-sea water. OTEC systems in literature only limitedly consider seasonal seawater variations thus might not be adequately sized for off-design conditions. This potentially leads to techno-economically sub-optimal design choices. paper sheds light on which approach yields...

This paper reports on the results of experimental investigations of flash evaporation from superheated jet issues vertically upward from a round straight nozzle of 81.3 mm diameter. For the investigated range of jet superheat degree and velocity, it was shown that flash evaporation enhances with initial temperature increase. Due to the increase of jet inertia and subsequently the delay of jet s...