Wave power

About: Wave power is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2671 publications have been published within this topic receiving 41439 citations. The topic is also known as: wind wave energy & sea wave energy.

Double Fed Induction Generator Control Design Based on a Fuzzy Logic Controller for an Oscillating Water Column System

Abstract: Oscillating water column (OWC) systems are water power generation plants that transform wave kinetic energy into electrical energy by a surrounded air column in a chamber that changes its pressure through the waves motion. The chamber pressure output spins a Wells turbine that is linked to a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), flexible devices that adjust the turbine speed to increase the efficiency. However, there are different nonlinearities associated with these systems such as weather conditions, uncertainties, and turbine stalling phenomenon. In this research, a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) combined with an airflow reference generator (ARG) was designed and validated in a simulation environment to display the efficiency enhancement of an OWC system by the regulation of the turbine speed. Results show that the proposed framework not only increased the system output power, but the stalling is also avoided under different pressure profiles.

Wave-PV hybrid generation system carried in the offshore floating type wave power device "Mighty Whale"

Abstract: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has been engaged in research and development of ocean-wave energy extraction technology for many years now. In particular, work began in 1987 an offshore floating type wave power device called "Mighty Whale". The open sea tests were started on the 10th of September 1998. Tests were conducted until March 2002. For converting renewable energy into electricity, it is not only important to raise energy conversion efficiency, but also to flat-and-smooth of generating electricity considering demand-and-supply balance and system cooperation. Although there are accumulation of electricity and a proposal of storing energy with a flywheel etc., as this measure, equipment different from power generation is needed, and it becomes the factor which raises cost. Generally, when it is fine, a wave is small, and when a wave is high, it is bad weather. For this reason, it is thought that photovoltaics and wave power generation can complement each other fault, and can perform flat-and-smoothization of the amount of power generation. This paper describes verification of the possibility of hybridizing of solar and wave energy and application to the system from an experiment of the combined cycle power generation system of the photovoltaics and wave power generation which were performed with the offshore wave power device "Mighty Whale"

Floating type marine wind energy and wave energy hybrid power generation platform

Abstract: The invention aims to provide a floating type marine wind energy and wave energy hybrid power generation platform which comprises a vertical shaft wind driven generator, an oscillating type wave power generating device and a floating body, wherein the vertical shaft wind driven generator and the oscillating type wave power generating device are respectively arranged on the floating body; the oscillating type wave power generating device comprises a floater, an oscillating rod and a wave power generator; the floater is connected with the oscillating rod, and the oscillating rod is connected with the wave power generator through a wave motion reversing device; and the wave power generator is connected with an energy storage device through a power conversion device According to the floating type marine wind energy and wave energy hybrid power generation platform, the application range of the hybrid power generation platform is expanded, the stability and the safety performance of the power generation platform are improved, the construction cost and the maintenance cost are reduced, and the power generation efficiency is improved by active stall control and phase change control, so that the floating type marine wind energy and wave energy hybrid power generation platform is a reliable offshore power generation platform

The Black Sea Wave Energy: The Present State and the Twentieth century Changes

Abstract: In this paper we present a study of the present state of the Black Sea wave energy. The studies of other authors are based on the use of input data from atmospheric reanalysis or a downscaling of such reanalysis. Instead of reanalysis data, we use input data from the operational limited area numerical weather prediction model ALADIN. We showed that the estimations of the Black Sea wave energy based on reanalyses deviate significantly from the real potential. We showed also that the highest values of the mean annual wave power flux is between 4.5 and 5.0 kW/m2 and the near shore areas with the highest wave energy potential are the southernmost Bulgarian coast and the coast of Turkey north of Istanbul. While we showed that the wind data from the reanalysis are not useful for the estimation of the actual wave energy potential, we claimed that the reanalysis data is useful to study the long term changes of the wave energy of the Black Sea. We used the 10m winds from the recent ERA-20C reanalysis, which covers the period 1901-2010. We performed a 110 years hindcast with these winds using the SWAN wave model. The results for the area with the highest mean annual wave energy showed that there was an increase during the first half of the XX century followed by a small decrease and again a period with elevated wave energy during the seventies. After 1980 there is a steady decrease of the Black Sea wave energy.