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Analyzing the Near-Field Effects and the Power Production of an Array of Heaving Cylindrical WECs and OSWECs Using a Coupled Hydrodynamic-PTO Model [PDF]
Energies, 2018 The Power Take-Off (PTO) system is the key component of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) that distinguishes it from a simple floating body because the uptake of the energy by the PTO system modifies the wave field surrounding the WEC.
Philip Balitsky +4 more
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Fundamental formulae for wave-energy conversion [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 The time-average wave power that is absorbed from an incident wave by means of a wave-energy conversion (WEC) unit, or by an array of WEC units—i.e. oscillating immersed bodies and/or oscillating water columns (OWCs)—may be mathematically expressed in ...
Johannes Falnes, Adi Kurniawan
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Modelling Offshore Wave farms for Coastal Process Impact Assessment: Waves, Beach Morphology, and Water Users [PDF]
Energies, 2018 The emerging global wave energy industry has the potential to contribute to the world’s energy needs, but careful consideration of potential impacts to coastal processes in the form of an impact assessment is required for each new wave energy site.
Christopher Stokes, Daniel C. Conley
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Development of a methodology for collaborative control within a WEC array
International Marine Energy Journal, 2018 It has been established that Wave Energy Converters efficiency can be improved by control. One of the main challenges of reactive control is the non-causality of the optimal controller.
P.-E. Meunier +3 more
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STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR TRIMARAN PONTOON ARRAY IN WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER – PENDULUM SYSTEM (WEC - PS)
Brodogradnja, 2022 Ocean waves are a renewable energy source with abundant reserves in Indonesia. With the vast waters of Indonesia, the development of a sea wave power plant needs to be developed.
Ridho Hantoro +3 more
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A Fast Tool for Assessing the Power Performance of Large WEC arrays [PDF]
, 2015 In the present work, a tool for computing wave energy converter array hydrodynamic forces and power performance is developed. The tool leads to a significant reduction on computation time compared with standard boundary element method based codes while keeping similar levels of accuracy. This makes it suitable for array layout optimization, where large
Ruiz, Pau Mercadé
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Commercial wave energy exploitation will be realised by placing multiple wave energy converters (WECs) in an array configuration. A point-absorber WEC consists of a floating or submerged body to capture wave energy from different wave directions.
Timothy Vervaet +5 more
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Storage Minimization of Marine Energy Grids Using Polyphase Power
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Multiple wave energy converter (WEC) buoys can be used to establish a WEC array-powered microgrid collectively forming a Marine Energy Grid (MEG). An oceanic domain with gravity waves will have significant spatial variability in phase, causing the power ...
Salman Husain +2 more
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Energies, 2022 In order to further improve the power-generating capacity of the wave energy converter (WEC) of oscillating buoy type, this paper puts forward a novel type where the WEC can move and extract power in five degrees of freedom.
Xiaohui Zeng +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 To offer point absorber wave energy converters (WECs) as a bankable product on the marine renewable energy market, multiple WECs will be installed together in an array configuration.
Timothy Vervaet +7 more
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