{"title":"Exploration of power take off in wave energy converters with two-body interaction","authors":"Hao Wang, K. Sitanggang, J. Falzarano","doi":"10.12989/OSE.2017.7.2.089","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The study explores a novel design of wave energy converter (WEC) that utilizes the interaction between an inside heaving vertical cylinder with an outside fixed hollow cylinder. This design originates from the oscillating water column (OWC) type WEC but replaces the pneumatic power take off (PTO) through the Wells turbine with the hydrodynamic PTO through the inside heaving cylinder. To effectively evaluate the maximum power output, the system has been modeled in the hydrodynamic software AQWA (developed by ANSYS Inc) that has accumulated extensive offshore industry users. Ranges of the PTO parameters have been examined to make sure that proper linear damping can be implemented to simulate the PTO force. Comparing the efficiency of the pneumatic PTO with the hydrodynamic PTO, it appears that the hydrodynamic PTO is more promising than the traditional Wells turbine for an OWC system.","PeriodicalId":44219,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Systems Engineering-An International Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"89-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ocean Systems Engineering-An International Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12989/OSE.2017.7.2.089","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, OCEAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
Abstract
The study explores a novel design of wave energy converter (WEC) that utilizes the interaction between an inside heaving vertical cylinder with an outside fixed hollow cylinder. This design originates from the oscillating water column (OWC) type WEC but replaces the pneumatic power take off (PTO) through the Wells turbine with the hydrodynamic PTO through the inside heaving cylinder. To effectively evaluate the maximum power output, the system has been modeled in the hydrodynamic software AQWA (developed by ANSYS Inc) that has accumulated extensive offshore industry users. Ranges of the PTO parameters have been examined to make sure that proper linear damping can be implemented to simulate the PTO force. Comparing the efficiency of the pneumatic PTO with the hydrodynamic PTO, it appears that the hydrodynamic PTO is more promising than the traditional Wells turbine for an OWC system.
期刊介绍：
The OCEAN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING focuses on the new research and development efforts to advance the understanding of sciences and technologies in ocean systems engineering. The main subject of the journal is the multi-disciplinary engineering of ocean systems. Areas covered by the journal include; * Undersea technologies: AUVs, submersible robot, manned/unmanned submersibles, remotely operated underwater vehicle, sensors, instrumentation, measurement, and ocean observing systems; * Ocean systems technologies: ocean structures and structural systems, design and production, ocean process and plant, fatigue, fracture, reliability and risk analysis, dynamics of ocean structure system, probabilistic dynamics analysis, fluid-structure interaction, ship motion and mooring system, and port engineering; * Ocean hydrodynamics and ocean renewable energy, wave mechanics, buoyancy and stability, sloshing, slamming, and seakeeping; * Multi-physics based engineering analysis, design and testing: underwater explosions and their effects on ocean vehicle systems, equipments, and surface ships, survivability and vulnerability, shock, impact and vibration; * Modeling and simulations; * Underwater acoustics technologies.
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