Modelling of operation and optimum design of a wave power take-off system with energy storage

A Parametric Study of Wave Energy Converter Layouts in Real Wave Models

“…Cooperative EAs [18] Design & PTOs fully-submerged 1 Hybrid EAs [29] Layout fully-submerged 50, 100 Multi-strategy EAs [30] Design & PTOs heaving WEC 1 Evolutionary and GA [19] PTOs oscillating wave surge converter 1 GA [20,31] Design sloped-motion WEC 1 Heuristic optimization [32] PTOs oscillating water column-based 1 Water cycle algorithm [33] PTOs hinged-type WECs 1 Experimental observations [34] PTOs oscillating wave surge converter 1 GA and ML [35] Layout The CETO6 is a fully-submerged point absorber wave energy converter that is manufactured, installed, and updated by Carnegie Clean Energy Ltd. The prospective location of the WECs array is off the coast of Albany due to its exposure to open ocean wave conditions [58].…”

“…Consequently, this is the main reason to investigate these interactions in order to apply them to reinforce the total power output. There are many relevant publications with this subject by several R&D units across Europe in the past by the pioneering works [12][13][14][15][16], and it is still an interesting research field, as several investigations have been published recently [17][18][19][20] . Furthermore, the identification of techno-economically feasible decarbonisation paths and sustainability transitions have been investigated by [21][22][23].…”

Design and analysis of a new wave energy converter based on a point absorber and a hydraulic system harvesting energy from waves near the shore in calm seas

“…The authors, differently from others like Bonovas, 9 Tampier, 15 Shadman, 21 and Hansen, 29 face the calculus of the buoy oscillations both with a traditional differential equations approach and with a simplified method. The latter allows obtaining simplified formulas which correlate the stroke of the piston pump to the height of the waves.…”

“…These circumstances raise technical issues affecting the design and arrangement of WECs, sometime raising the costs so much as to make it no longer convenient. 9 In the Mediterranean Sea, the possibility of working with moderate waves simplifies the design of production plants, making them attractive. Anyway, technical problems related to extreme sea climate could be solved by improving the research, so that wave energy production could be economically viable even in those cases.…”

“…These circumstances raise technical issues affecting the design and arrangement of WECs, sometime raising the costs so much as to make it no longer convenient 9 . In the Mediterranean Sea, the possibility of working with moderate waves simplifies the design of production plants, making them attractive.…”