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On the Optimization of Point Absorber Buoys [PDF]
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2014 A point absorbing wave energy converter (WEC) is a complicated dynamical system. A semi-submerged buoy drives a power take-off device (PTO), which acts as a linear or non-linear damper of the WEC system.
Linnea Sjökvist +5 more
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Modeling of a Point Absorber for Energy Conversion in Italian Seas [PDF]
Energies, 2013 In the present paper, we investigate the feasibility of wave electricity production in Italian seas by the deployment of the Seabased wave energy converter (WEC).
Renata Archetti +4 more
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A Novel 2-D Point Absorber Numerical Modelling Method [PDF]
Inventions, 2021 Despite several wave energy converters (WECs) having been developed to present, no particular concept has emerged yet. The existing inventions vary significantly in terms of the operation principle and complexity of WECs.
Gianmaria Giannini +3 more
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A Review of Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 There are more than thousands of concepts for harvesting wave energy, and wave energy converters (WECs) are diverse in operating principles, design geometries and deployment manners, leading to misconvergence in WEC technologies.
Bingyong Guo +5 more
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Cost-Based Design and Selection of Point Absorber Devices for the Mediterranean Sea
Energies, 2018 Sea wave energy is one of the most promising renewable sources, even if relevant technology is not mature enough for the global energy market and is not yet competitive if compared with solar, wind and tidal current devices.
Vincenzo Piscopo +3 more
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Inventions, 2021 This paper proposed a test bench device to emulate or simulate the electrical impulses of a wave energy converter (WEC). The objective of the study is to reconstruct under laboratory conditions the dynamics of a WEC in the form of an emulator to assess ...
Ephraim Bonah Agyekum +3 more
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Wave Energy Assessment along Sicilian Coastline, Based on DEIM Point Absorber
Energies, 2017 The use of renewable energy sources is one of the most relevant goals to be achieved in order to match the climate protection targets. As a case study, the paper shows the current electrical energy production by sources in the Sicilian context. Among the
Vincenzo Franzitta +2 more
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Modelling a Heaving Point-Absorber with a Closed-Loop Control System Using the DualSPHysics Code
Energies, 2021 The present work addresses the need for an efficient, versatile, accurate and open-source numerical tool to be used during the design stage of wave energy converters (WECs). The device considered here is the heaving point-absorber developed and tested by
Pablo Ropero-Giralda +6 more
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Energies, 2015 Wave energy conversion has an essential difference from other renewable energies since the dependence between the devices design and the energy resource is stronger.
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Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO [PDF]
Applied Optics, 2021 Small, highly absorbing points are randomly present on the surfaces of the main interferometer optics in Advanced LIGO. The resulting nanometer scale thermo-elastic deformations and substrate lenses from these micron-scale absorbers significantly reduce the sensitivity of the interferometer directly though a reduction in the power ...
Aidan F. Brooks +201 more
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