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JournalofEnergyandPowerEngineering8f2014)2089—2095 lN I每 Counter-·RotatingTypeTidalStream PowerUnitMoored byOnlyOneCable YutaUsui，ToshiakiKanemoto，KoheiTakakiandKojuHiraki 1．GraduateSchoolofEngineering,KyushuInstituteofTechnology,Kitalo’ushu804—8550,Japan 2．FacultyofEngineering,KyushuInstituteofTechnology,Kitakyushu804—8550，Japan Received：September12，2014 ／Accepted：October20，2014／Published：December31，2014 Abstract：Theauthorshaveproposedthatacounter-rotatingtypetidalstream powerunitmountedrigidlyoilapile，andoutputsof thepowerunitandforcesactingonthepilewereinvestigatedexperimentallyatapreviouspaper．A singlepropellermakesthepile undertakeareactionforceorthogonaltothestream direction．Onthecontrary，proposedcounter—rotatingpropellersdonotrequire undertakingthereactionforceofthepile．becausetherotationaltorqueiscounter-balancedintheunit．Thisadvantagemeansthatthe unitcan be moored by only one cable．Continuously，this paperproposessuch apowerunitwith tandem propellers，and experimentallyinvestigatesabehavioroftheunitfloatinginawaterchanne1．Thevibrationsofthepowerunitareinducedfrom not onlytheindividualbutalsotheinteractingrotationsofthefrontandtherearpropellers． Keywords：Tidalturbine，tidalstream，tandem propellers，counterrotation，generator，armature，mooring 1．Introductjon coefficient P ／ d v3／8)，Pistheoutputpisthe density，Visthestream velocity，dFisthediameterof Oceanenergyresourcesgreatly attractattention to the front propeller，the subscript max means the getsustainablesocietywithaccompanyinghydro，wind maximum value， and experimental results were andsolarresources，andthenmanykindsofthepower