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  • Design and Simulation of Nonlinear Control Strategies for Heaving Point Wave Energy Converters in WEC-Sim

    Creator:
    Glennon, David N.
    Abstract:
    As the sources of our electricity shift from centralized and carbon emitting, to a portfolio of distributed, clean-energy sources, the wave energy converter (WEC) has become a topic of exploration and development for providing coastal communities electric power. Part of this trend has included an effort to create open source...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF David N. Glennon for the degree

  • Power system reliability and power quality assessments with grid-connected wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Boller, Michael D.
    Abstract:
    Generating abundant, renewable energy from Earth’s oceans is an attractive option for meeting increasing energy demand. Marine renewable energy also comes with the variability of renewable sources, which impact the reliability and power quality of the electrical grid. On a transmission-level, this dissertation looks at ensuring reliability of the power...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Methods for evaluating the impact of renewable resource variability on grid operation and planning

    Creator:
    Halamay, Douglas A.
    Abstract:
    With the recent interest in increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources onto the power grid, there has been an unprecedented rapid deployment of wind generation, especially in the US Pacific Northwest. While wind farm developers have continued to expand their operations, power system operators are left to deal with...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Impacts of Prediction on Wave Energy Converter Control

    Creator:
    Comard, Colin Q.
    Abstract:
    Ocean waves provide a promising source of renewable energy for the North American electric grid. However, ideal control of wave energy converters (WECs) requires perfect forecasting of future wave conditions, and waves can be unpredictable. This paper presents a comparison of three different prediction methods and analyzes their performance in...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . URL: https://www. mathworks.com/help/mpc/gs/mpc-modeling.html. [4] Paul T. Jacobson, George Hagerman

  • Residential load simulation and applied load management strategies

    Creator:
    McArthur, Shaun
    Abstract:
    This work presents a residential load simulation framework that allows the user to test the effectiveness of peak reduction, peak shifting, and valley filling load management strategies on a representative residential load prior to physical smart sensor and load control deployment. The simulation methodology uses household occupancy, appliance time-of-use, and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    for a single hour in the subroutine is given by: 𝑅𝑝 𝑗 = 𝑁𝑥(𝑙, 𝑗) 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙=1 𝑁𝑡

  • A linear test bed for characterizing the performance of ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Hogan, Peter M.
    Abstract:
    Determining the performance characteristics of various ocean wave energy converters (OWEC) has proven to be difficult due to problems replicating a baseline motion profile in the ocean or wave tank to compare these devices. The linear test bed seeks to mechanically simulate the relative linear motion between the active components...
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    Masters Thesis
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    thank all of the graduate students, especially Alphonse Schacher, Ean Amon, Ken Rhinefrank, David

  • A methodology to enable wind farm automatic generation control

    Creator:
    Han, Hai-Yue
    Abstract:
    Over the last decade the increase in penetration of wind power and its variable nature has begun to add considerable stress to and threatened the stability of the nation's grid. In order to continue growth wind farms will need to have the ability to participate in the same grid frequency...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    appreciation to his committee members Dr. Ean Amon, Dr. David Hackleman and Roger Traylor for their time and

  • Evaluating the seismic risk and resilience of an electrical power system

    Creator:
    Chalishazar, Vishvas H.
    Abstract:
    The Pacific Northwest is part of the "Ring of Fire," which is well-known for heavy seismic activity. Numerous active faults in the area have encouraged electric grid managers in the region to more deeply contemplate and proactively intervene to support grid resilience. This research introduces Monte Carlo (MC) based power...
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    Dissertation
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    . David Bernell for the valuable inputs to my research. Thanks to all my friends, specially Dr. Anirban

  • On the design, modeling, and testing of ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Bosma, Bret
    Abstract:
    Ocean wave energy converter technology continues to advance and new developers continue to emerge, leading to the need for a general design, modeling, and testing methodology. This work presents a development of the process of taking a wave energy converter from a concept to the prototype stage. A two body...
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    Dissertation

  • Development of a Hybrid Simulation for an Ocean Wave Energy Converter

    Creator:
    Harris, Jesse
    Abstract:
    Ocean Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are of interest around the globe as global economies begin to shift their interest to renewable forms of energy. However, the devices are costly to construct–a quality that can be relieved through proper modeling, control, and implementation. This paper presents the numerical and hybrid simulation...
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    Masters Thesis
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    hy si ca l A C /A C C on ve rt er H (s ) FIGURE 2.1: Hybrid simulation block diagram