TY - BOOK
T1 - Wave-to-wire Modelling of Wave Energy Converters : Critical Assessment, Developments and Applicability for Economical Optimisation
T2 - Revised Version
AU - Ferri, Francesco
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The idea to use the motion of a wavy sea surface to produce electricity was investigate in the seventies, in a time when the earliest wave energy converters were conceived and developed. But nowadays still none of the patented devices reached a commercial stage. Wave energy is a large, mostly untapped, renewable energy resource that has the potential to contribute significantly to the future energy mix, especially in an environmental friendly future scenario. What is bounding the sector to roll off into the market is the cost of the produced energy: too high if compared with other renewable energy sources. Generally speaking, the devices have a low efficiency and a high structural cost. The aim of the thesis is to push the research toward a cost minimisation algorithm, based on numerical simulation, which account for both efficiency and structural cost of the device. In order to achieve this goal a reliable wave-to-wire (numerical) model is needed and a validation procedure based on experimental data sets have been used through the work.
AB - The idea to use the motion of a wavy sea surface to produce electricity was investigate in the seventies, in a time when the earliest wave energy converters were conceived and developed. But nowadays still none of the patented devices reached a commercial stage. Wave energy is a large, mostly untapped, renewable energy resource that has the potential to contribute significantly to the future energy mix, especially in an environmental friendly future scenario. What is bounding the sector to roll off into the market is the cost of the produced energy: too high if compared with other renewable energy sources. Generally speaking, the devices have a low efficiency and a high structural cost. The aim of the thesis is to push the research toward a cost minimisation algorithm, based on numerical simulation, which account for both efficiency and structural cost of the device. In order to achieve this goal a reliable wave-to-wire (numerical) model is needed and a validation procedure based on experimental data sets have been used through the work.
KW - Wave energy
KW - Wave energy converters
KW - Optimisation
KW - Wave-to-wire modelling
KW - Numerical simulation
KW - Laboratory experiments
KW - Advance Control
KW - Control
KW - Cost reductions
KW - Wave energy
KW - Wave energy converters
KW - Optimisation
KW - Wave-to-wire modelling
KW - Numerical simulation
KW - Laboratory experiment
KW - Advance Control
KW - Control
KW - Cost reductions
U2 - 10.13052/rp-9788793237247
DO - 10.13052/rp-9788793237247
M3 - Book
BT - Wave-to-wire Modelling of Wave Energy Converters : Critical Assessment, Developments and Applicability for Economical Optimisation
PB - River Publishers
CY - Aalborg
ER -