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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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Computational fluid dynamics analysis of a 0.6 m, 0.6 hub-to-tip ratio impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes
A. Thakker,Fergal Hourigan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a 3D model of the Impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes was used to evaluate the performance of the turbine using CFD and with a view to integrating CFD into the design process.
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Wave-to-Wire Model of an Oscillating-Water-Column Wave Energy Converter and Its Application to Mediterranean Energy Hot-Spots
Lorenzo Ciappi,Lapo Cheli,Irene Simonetti,Alessandro Bianchini,Giampaolo Manfrida,Lorenzo Cappietti +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a wave-to-wire model for oscillating water column (OWC) systems based on an impulse air turbine is presented. But the model is limited to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Transient simulation of OWC impulse turbine based on fully passive flow-driving model
TL;DR: A 3D unsteady numerical model is presented in this paper, which is established on the platform of commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS-Fluent 12.0.
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Modeling and scaling of the impulse turbine for wave power applications
A. Thakker,Fergal Hourigan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the dimensional analysis of experimental data for the impulse turbine and the use of that data to create a model to predict the performance characteristics of any size of turbine under a range operating conditions.
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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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