Summary
Marine renewable energies are promising enablers of a cleaner energy future. Some technologies, like wind, are maturing and have already achieved commercial success. Similar to their terrestrial counterparts, marine renewable energy systems require energy storage capabilities to achieve the flexibility of the 21st century grid demand. The unique difficulties imposed by a harsh marine environment challenge the unencumbered rise of marine renewable energy generation and storage systems. In this study, the fundamentals of marine renewable energy generation technologies are briefed. A comprehensive review and comparison of state‐of‐the‐art novel marine renewable energy storage technologies, including pumped hydro storage (PHS), compressed air energy storage (CAES), battery energy storage (BES), hydrogen energy storage (HES), gravity energy storage (GES), and buoyancy energy storage (ByES), are conducted. The pros and cons, and potential applications, of various marine renewable energy storage technologies are also compiled. Finally, several future trends of marine renewable energy storage technologies are connoted.
A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) random vibration control method is proposed for a multi-axis hydraulic shaking table system to replicate the reference power spectral density (PSD). Kinematics analysis is presented to reduce cross-coupling between the axes of the hydraulic shaking table. The time histories generated by time domain randomization in conventional MIMO random vibration control have spectral leakage between the frequency resolutions. The drive signal PSD is used in the proposed control method to design a linear time-invariant system. Circular convolution is then proposed to implement the designed system and convert the PSD to time histories with white noise. Experimental results obtained in step response and two-axis PSD replication show the effectiveness of the proposed control method.
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