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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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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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Flexible multibody dynamics modelling of point-absorber wave energy converters [PDF]
Renewable Energy, 2018 As an inexhaustible and environmentally-friendly energy resource, ocean wave power, which is extracted from ocean waves through WECs (wave energy converters), is highly valued by coastal countries.
Lin Wang, Athanasios J Kolios
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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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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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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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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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Heaving buoys, point absorbers and arrays [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2012 Abstract Absorption of wave energy may be considered as a phenomenon of interference between incident and radiated waves generated by an oscillating object; a wave-energy converter (WEC) that displaces water. If a WEC is very small in comparison with one wavelength, it is classified as a point absorber (PA); otherwise, as a ‘quasi ...
Johannes, Falnes, Jørgen, Hals
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 The wave-energy excitation of point absorbers is highly associated with their resonant movement, and harmonic characteristics are of increasing concern in affecting resonance.
Yang Yi +6 more
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LINEAR GENERATOR PROTOTYPE WITH VERTICAL CONFIGURATION OF SEA WAVE POWER PLANT
Spektra: Jurnal Fisika dan Aplikasinya, 2021 There are three types of potential energy sources in the sea: ocean wave energy, tidal energy, and ocean heat energy. Ocean wave energy is a source of considerable energy. Sea waves are an up and down movement of seawater where the energy of sea waves is
Ane Prasetyowati +2 more
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