The progress in wave energy conversion in Europe during the past ten years is reviewed and current activities and initiatives in the wave energy sector at National and Union level are described. Other important activities worldwide are summarized. The technical and econ

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Wave energy in Europe: current status and perspectives

Oscillating-water-column wave energy converters and air turbines: A review

Current status of self rectifying air turbines for wave energy conversion

The control and simulation of the power delivered to the grid are becoming an important topic, particularly when the number of distributed power generation systems increases. In this paper, two different control schemes for an oscillating-water-column Wells-turbine-generator module are simulated, implemented, and compared. In the first method, the control system does appropriately adapt the slip of the induction generator according to the pressure drop entry in order to maximize the generated power, while in the second method, a traditional proportional-integral-derivative-based control is implemented in order to deal with the desired power-reference-tracking problem. It will be shown how the controllers avoid the stalling behavior and that the average power of the generator fed into the grid is significantly higher in the controlled cases than in the uncontrolled one while providing the desired output power.

Modeling and Simulation of Wave Energy Generation Plants: Output Power Control

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A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based wave energy plants

Performance of an Impulse Turbine Based Wave Energy Plant

A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based wave energy plants – Experimental validation and scaling

A twin unidirectional turbine topology has been proposed as a power module for an OWC based wave energy plant. It has no valves or moving parts and demonstrates high efficiency over a broad range of flow coefficients. Scaling laws show that a turbine of 2.6 m diameter is sufficient to achieve a power rating of 2 MW, Thirty one such modules can be used to produce an annual output of 50 GWh.

Design of a 50 GWh Wave Energy Plant

The consuming water disaster in India is achieving alarming proportions. It may very quickly obtain the character of worldwide disaster. Hence, it's far more important to keep water. The one trouble may be very not unusual place to us that the manipulate of water stage of overhead tank, as a end result the wastage of water is growing day via way of means of day. This trouble may be managed via way of means of a easy digital circuit is composed with a few reasonably-priced digital components. The operation of water stage controller works upon the truth that water conducts electricity. So water may be used to open or near a circuit. As the water stage rises or falls, exceptional circuits within the controller ship exceptional alerts. These alerts are used to exchange ON or transfer OFF the motor pump as consistent with our requirements. Water stage indicator is a current manner of measuring the water stage the usage of present day technology like sensors, Arduino, the principle purpose of the mission is to calculate the water stage at any immediately of time and to buzz the buzzer if the tank is stuffed completely, we would really like to apply Arduino and ultrasonic sensor to make it possible, this can be beneficial to preserve water and allows us now no longer to waste water.

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Papers

A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based wave energy plants

Performance of an Impulse Turbine Based Wave Energy Plant

A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based wave energy plants – Experimental validation and scaling

Design of a 50 GWh Wave Energy Plant

Ultrasonic Sensor based Water Management system for Domestic Appliances