Feasibility study of a wave energy farm in the western Mediterranean Sea: Comparison among different technologies
The cost of the energy extracted by ocean surface waves depends on many technological-physical factors like conversion principle, wave energy potential, water depth, shore distance, and ocean floor characteristics. Economic factors, like assumed discount rate, cost reduction due to technological imp...
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ftpolimilanoiris:oai:re.public.polimi.it:11311/1032284 2024-04-21T07:53:28+00:00 Feasibility study of a wave energy farm in the western Mediterranean Sea: Comparison among different technologies ARCHETTI, RENATA BOZZI, SILVIA PASSONI, GIUSEPPE Archetti, Renata Bozzi, Silvia Passoni, Giuseppe 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/11311/1032284 https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2011-49372 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9780791844373 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000314736400054 ispartofbook:Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2011) ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2011 firstpage:447 lastpage:452 numberofpages:6 http://hdl.handle.net/11311/1032284 doi:10.1115/OMAE2011-49372 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84855803951 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Ocean Engineering Mechanical Engineering Energy Engineering and Power Technology info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2011 ftpolimilanoiris https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2011-49372 2024-03-25T16:53:13Z The cost of the energy extracted by ocean surface waves depends on many technological-physical factors like conversion principle, wave energy potential, water depth, shore distance, and ocean floor characteristics. Economic factors, like assumed discount rate, cost reduction due to technological improvement and fiscal incentives, are extremely important too. The Mediterranean Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in particular, possess an interesting energy potential. At some locations offshore Sardinia and Sicily the wave energy density is of the order of 10kW/m. In this paper the energy production has been computed for three different wave energy converters (AquaBuOY AWS and Pelamis), at two promising locations in the western Italian seas. The energy cost has also been computed for the Pelamis device at Alghero site which has the highest wave energy potential. The results indicate that the existing Pelamis converter is oversized with respect to the typical wavelength of the investigated sites After proper scaling of the device, the performance in the energy conversion could become economically attractive also for Italian seas. Copyright © 2011 by ASME. Conference Object Arctic RE.PUBLIC@POLIMI - Research Publications at Politecnico di Milano Volume 5: Ocean Space Utilization; Ocean Renewable Energy 447 452 |
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The cost of the energy extracted by ocean surface waves depends on many technological-physical factors like conversion principle, wave energy potential, water depth, shore distance, and ocean floor characteristics. Economic factors, like assumed discount rate, cost reduction due to technological improvement and fiscal incentives, are extremely important too. The Mediterranean Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in particular, possess an interesting energy potential. At some locations offshore Sardinia and Sicily the wave energy density is of the order of 10kW/m. In this paper the energy production has been computed for three different wave energy converters (AquaBuOY AWS and Pelamis), at two promising locations in the western Italian seas. The energy cost has also been computed for the Pelamis device at Alghero site which has the highest wave energy potential. The results indicate that the existing Pelamis converter is oversized with respect to the typical wavelength of the investigated sites After proper scaling of the device, the performance in the energy conversion could become economically attractive also for Italian seas. Copyright © 2011 by ASME. |
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Feasibility study of a wave energy farm in the western Mediterranean Sea: Comparison among different technologies |
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Feasibility study of a wave energy farm in the western Mediterranean Sea: Comparison among different technologies |
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