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Performance of an impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes for wave power conversion
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In this article, a simple fixed geometry impulse turbine has been studied as a suitable power converter in Oscillating Water Column based wave power plants and the optimum guide vane angle for maximum efficiency has been arrived at based on the five angles tested.About:
This article is published in Renewable Energy.The article was published on 1999-08-01. It has received 76 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wells turbine & Turbine.read more
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Wave energy in Europe: current status and perspectives
Alain Clément,Pat McCullen,António F.O. Falcão,Antonio Fiorentino,Fred Gardner,Karin Hammarlund,George Lemonis,Tony Lewis,Kim Nielsen,Simona Petroncini,M.-Teresa Pontes,Phillippe Schild,Bengt-Olov Sjöström,Hans Christian Sørensen,Tom Thorpe +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, 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.
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Comprehensive Renewable Energy
TL;DR: The comprehensive renewable energy reference work as discussed by the authors is a multi-volume reference work of its type at a time when renewable energy sources are seen increasingly as realistic alternatives to fossil fuels, and can be considered the definitive work for this subject area.
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Multiple surrogate based optimization of a bidirectional impulse turbine for wave energy conversion
Rameez Badhurshah,Abdus Samad +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a bidirectional impulse turbine was simulated using CFD technique and optimized using multiple surrogates approach to enhance the robustness of the optimization process by using different surrogates such as response surface approximation, radial basis function, Kriging and weighted average surrogate.
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Computed effects of tip clearance on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion
A. Thakker,T.S. Dhanasekaran +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a 3-D model with tip clearance has been generated to predict the internal flow and performance of the turbine and it is found that the comparison between computed and experimental data is good, quantitatively and qualitatively.
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An improved radial impulse turbine for OWC
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a new geometry design for the radial version of the impulse turbine, which was initially proposed by M. McCormick, to improve the turbine efficiency by up to 5% more than the geometry proposed by Professor Setoguchi, in 2002.
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Performance of a High-Solidity Wells Turbine for an OWC Wave Power Plant
TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation of the aerodynamic performance of a high-solidity Wells turbine for a wave power plant is presented, and the results show that the presence of guide vanes can provide a remarkable increase in turbine efficiency.
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Impulse Turbine With Self-Pitch-Controlled Guide Vanes For Wave Power Conversion (Guide Vanes Connected By Link Motion)
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of an impulse turbine with self-pitch-controlled guide vanes for wave power conversion has been investigated, and the results show that a high-efficiency impulse turbine can be developed by these of guide vane connected by link motions.
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Impulse Turbine With Self-Pitch-Controlled Guide Vanes For Wave Power Conversion: Performance Of Mono- Vane Type
TL;DR: In this paper, an impulse turbine with self-pitch-controlled guide vanes was investigated experimentally by the use of turbine test equipment in which the sinusoidally reciprocating flow conditions are simulated.
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