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Bo Zhang, Haixu Zhang, Sheng Yang, Shiyu Chen, Xiaoshan Bai and Awais Khan
This paper proposes a model predictive control (MPC) method based on an interconnected model to maximize the ocean wave energy extracted by a wave-energy converter (WEC) array. In the proposed method, a formally uniform interconnected model is applied to...
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Timothy Vervaet, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Brecht De Backer, Kurt Stockman, Marc Vantorre and Peter Troch
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. This po...
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Timma Flanagan, Meagan Wengrove and Bryson Robertson
Future nearshore wave energy converter (WEC) arrays will influence coastal wave and sediment dynamics, yet there are limited numerical methodologies to quantify their possible impacts. A novel coupled WEC-Wave numerical method was developed to quantify t...
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Salman Husain, Gordon G. Parker and Wayne W. Weaver
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 ...
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Shufang Qin, Jun Fan, Haiming Zhang, Junwei Su and Yi Wang
Oscillating buoy device, also known as point absorber, is an important wave energy converter (WEC) for wave energy development and utilization. The previous work primarily focused on the optimization of mechanical design, buoy?s array configuration and t...
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Fadia Ticona Rollano, Thanh Toan Tran, Yi-Hsiang Yu, Gabriel García-Medina and Zhaoqing Yang
Industry-specific tools for analyzing and optimizing the design of wave energy converters (WECs) and associated power systems are essential to advancing marine renewable energy. This study aims to quantify the influence of phase information on the device...
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Yi-Hsiang Yu and Dale Jenne
A wave energy converter (WEC) system has the potential to convert the wave energy resource directly into the high-pressure flow that is needed by the desalination system to pump saltwater to the reverse-osmosis membrane and provide the required pressure ...
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Simon Thomas, Marianna Giassi, Mikael Eriksson, Malin Göteman, Jan Isberg, Edward Ransley, Martyn Hann and Jens Engström
This paper introduces a machine learning based control strategy for energy converter arrays designed to work under realistic conditions where the optimal control parameter can not be obtained analytically. The control strategy neither relies on a mathema...
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Juan Carlos Antolín-Urbaneja, Alain Cortés, Itziar Cabanes, Patxi Estensoro, Joseba Lasa and Marga Marcos
One of the key systems of a Wave Energy Converter for extraction of wave energy is the Power Take-Off (PTO) device. This device transforms the mechanical energy of a moving body into electrical energy. This paper describes the model of an innovative PTO ...
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Vladimir Krivtsov and Brian Linfoot
This paper describes the physical model testing of an array of wave energy devices undertaken in the NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Trondheim basin between 8 and 20 October 2008 funded under the EU Hydralabs III initiative, and pro...
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