{"id":953,"date":"2020-02-23T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/?p=953"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:27:34","slug":"waves-to-water-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2020\/02\/waves-to-water-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves to Water Prize: Design Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of working the past few months with Landon Mackey, PhD on a entry into the Waves to Water Prize (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.herox.com\/wavestowater\">https:\/\/www.herox.com\/wavestowater<\/a>) sponsored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.&nbsp; The charge is to use wave energy to provide desalination for coastal communities as part of the recovery process following a natural disaster.&nbsp; Landon and I met a number of years ago through meetings related to the NC Renewable Ocean Energy Program and share a similar outlook on engineering designs.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve based our design on prior work done by the SAROS team (<a href=\"https:\/\/sarosdesalination.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/sarosdesalination.wordpress.com\/<\/a>), which was a spinoff of a UNC Charlotte senior design project, sponsored by Fred Wagner, a Charlotte area entrepreneur.&nbsp; Our design, based on lessons learned during the SAROS project is the Wave Actuated Tethered Emergency Response Bouyant Reverse Osmosis System (WATERBROS).&nbsp; We were pleased to be selected as one of the winning teams out of the CONCEPT phase of the competition (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AdB0A3qTx48\">video here<\/a>) and are hard at work on the DESIGN phase submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs-1024x546.png\" alt=\"Waves to Water Prize: Design Phase\" class=\"wp-image-955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs-1024x546.png 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs-1536x819.png 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2020\/02\/wecSimDemoGraphs.png 1895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of working the past few months with Landon Mackey, PhD on a entry into the Waves to Water Prize (https:\/\/www.herox.com\/wavestowater) sponsored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.&nbsp; The charge is to use wave energy to provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2020\/02\/waves-to-water-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}