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  • A Conceptual Design Tool for High-performance Wave Energy Converters for Blue Economy Applications

    Creator:
    Roach, Aeron L.
    Abstract:
    Much like wind energy in its early years, marine energy has vast potential, and wave energy converter (WEC) concepts are constantly in development. Consequently, wave energy faces many challenges for expansion and has a wide-ranging design space of WEC concepts. The large design space demands new methods for understanding the...
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    : A Conceptual Design Tool for High-performance Wave Energy Converters for Blue Economy Applications

  • Wave Energy Converter Array Optimization : Algorithm Development and Investigation of Layout Design Influences

    Creator:
    Sharp, Christopher J.
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    Realizing the vast amount of energy available in ocean waves, an industry has emerged that is progressing towards the deployment of grid–connected wave energy converters. Likely to be deployed in arrays, a challenge to the wave energy industry is maximizing the energy production of such arrays. We have been developing...
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    Dissertation
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    ]. Relatively recently, research has turned to the ocean — with the vast amount of power contained in its waves

  • Modeling, simulation, and analysis of two hydraulic power take-off systems for wave energy conversion

    Creator:
    Casey, Sean (Sean Michael)
    Abstract:
    Hydraulic power take-off (PTO) systems have been implemented in several wave energy converter (WEC) designs in recent years. Two popular hydraulic PTO configurations coupled to a point absorber hydrodynamic model are simulated in waves representative of an energetic sea state likely to be found in deep waters off the coast...
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    Power Take-off Systems for Wave Energy Conversion AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sean Casey for the

  • Time-domain modeling of heaving point absorber wave energy converters, including power take-off and mooring

    Creator:
    Ruehl, Kelley
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    Wave energy conversion is still in its infancy, and in order for it to become a commercially viable technology, developers, investors and utilities need to estimate a Wave Energy Converter's (WEC's) performance for the wave climate of a potential installation site. With the goal of estimating a design's power output...
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    Modeling of Heaving Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters, Including Power Take-Off and Mooring Abstract

  • Real-Time Estimation and Prediction of Wave Excitation Forces for Wave Energy Control Applications

    Creator:
    Ling, Bradley A.
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    Wave energy is emerging as a new potential source for renewable energy generation. However, wave energy technology is not currently cost competitive with other more mature renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. One approach that researchers and developers are taking to reduce the cost of wave energy is...
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    predicted 84 hours into the future, which will help utilities with load balancing [2]. Wave power also has

  • Predicting deep water breaking wave severity

    Creator:
    Hovland, Justin
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    Ocean Wave Energy Converters (WECs) operating on the water surface are subject to storms and other extreme events. In particular, high and steep waves, especially breaking waves, are likely the most dangerous to WECs. A method for quantifying the breaking severity of waves is presented and applied to wave data...
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    : _________________________________________________________ Robert K. Paasch Ocean Wave Energy Converters (WECs) operating on the water surface are

  • The wave energy resource of the US Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Lenee-Bluhm, Pukha
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    The substantial wave energy resource of the US Pacific Northwest (i.e. off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and N. California) is assessed and characterized. Archived spectral records from ten wave measurement buoys, operated and maintained by the National Data Buoy Center and the Coastal Data Information Program, form the basis...
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    substantial wave energy resource of the US Pacific Northwest (i.e. off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and

  • The effects of ocean variability and breaking waves on wave energy converter reliability and survivability

    Creator:
    Brown, Adam
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    The reliability and survivability of a wave energy converter (WEC) is highly dependent on the variability and non-linearity of the ocean itself. Ocean variability occurs on many time scales. Climate variability occurs decade-to-decade, and year-to-year in the number and intensity of winter storms. Seasonal variation of wave height and period...
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    Dissertation
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    of Ocean Variability and Breaking Waves on Wave Energy Converter Reliability and Survivability

  • Towards reliable and survivable ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Brown, Adam C.
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    Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of renewable energy with great potential. The energy contained in one meter of an average wave off the coast of Newport Oregon could supply dozens of homes with electricity. However, ocean waves are usually quite irregular which leads to large bursts...
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    . Recently, designs have been proposed by Pelamis Wave Power, Archimedes Wave Swing, Wave Dragon, Ocean

  • Alternative design considerations for a wave energy converter : a sustainability approach

    Creator:
    Collins, Erin
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    As the negative impacts of a fossil fueled electricity market are becoming more prevalent and destructive, the necessity for alternative energy techniques increases as well. However, before commercial implementation is underway, these alternatives must be assessed from three important perspectives: environmentally, economically, and socially, which are known as the three...
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    impacts of an attenuator type wave energy device called the Pelamis developed by Ocean Power Delivery, an