Assessment of the surge effects in a heaving point absorber in the Mediterranean Sea
In the present paper, the feasibility of wave electricity production in Italian seas is investigated through the implementation of a variant of the Seabased point absorber WEC. A numerical model of the coupled buoy-generator system is presented, which simulates the behavior of the WEC under differen...
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ftpolimilanoiris:oai:re.public.polimi.it:11311/1032286 2024-04-21T07:53:28+00:00 Assessment of the surge effects in a heaving point absorber in the Mediterranean Sea Miquel, Adrià Moreno Antonini, Alessandro ARCHETTI, RENATA BOZZI, SILVIA PASSONI, GIUSEPPE Miquel, Adrià Moreno Antonini, Alessandro Archetti, Renata Bozzi, Silvia Passoni, Giuseppe 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/11311/1032286 https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2014-23445 http://www.asmedl.org/journals/doc/ASMEDL-home/proc/ eng eng American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9780791845530 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000363499000028 ispartofbook:Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014 firstpage:V09AT09A028 lastpage:V09AT09A028 http://hdl.handle.net/11311/1032286 doi:10.1115/OMAE2014-23445 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84911402679 http://www.asmedl.org/journals/doc/ASMEDL-home/proc/ info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Energy Engineering and Power Technology Ocean Engineering Mechanical Engineering info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2014 ftpolimilanoiris https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2014-23445 2024-03-25T16:34:53Z In the present paper, the feasibility of wave electricity production in Italian seas is investigated through the implementation of a variant of the Seabased point absorber WEC. A numerical model of the coupled buoy-generator system is presented, which simulates the behavior of the WEC under different significant wave heights and periods. The WEC scheme is an improvement of the modeling of a three-body device, taking into account several aspects (independence among the bodies, heave and surge) ignored in previous studies for simplification of the scheme. One WEC composed by three bodies is simulated, with two different hydrodynamic numerical model schemes: a floating buoy and a submerged sphere placed at 25 meters below the water surface. The third body is the translator of the linear generator, which is located at the sea bottom and attached to the submerged sphere by a steel wire. For the hydrodynamic numerical model, the two bodies are allowed to move independently; heave and surge modes have been taken into account. The first scheme consists in the modeling with only three degrees of freedom, one per body only in the vertical direction (heave) and the other with five degrees of freedom, adding the horizontal component of movement for the buoy and the submerged body (surge). The results are compared with previous results of a WEC modeled as a single body system, with only one degree of freedom along the vertical axis. Preliminary results show that the produced energy in a simplified 1 DoF scheme is higher than results produced by the 3 DoF scheme, and is then approximately equal for the 5 DoF. The power matrixes present similar shapes. So the simplification made by neglecting the surge mode, in order to have a simpler dynamic model, doesn't give a significant improvement in the capture width and energy production assessment. Conference Object Arctic RE.PUBLIC@POLIMI - Research Publications at Politecnico di Milano Volume 9A: Ocean Renewable Energy |
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In the present paper, the feasibility of wave electricity production in Italian seas is investigated through the implementation of a variant of the Seabased point absorber WEC. A numerical model of the coupled buoy-generator system is presented, which simulates the behavior of the WEC under different significant wave heights and periods. The WEC scheme is an improvement of the modeling of a three-body device, taking into account several aspects (independence among the bodies, heave and surge) ignored in previous studies for simplification of the scheme. One WEC composed by three bodies is simulated, with two different hydrodynamic numerical model schemes: a floating buoy and a submerged sphere placed at 25 meters below the water surface. The third body is the translator of the linear generator, which is located at the sea bottom and attached to the submerged sphere by a steel wire. For the hydrodynamic numerical model, the two bodies are allowed to move independently; heave and surge modes have been taken into account. The first scheme consists in the modeling with only three degrees of freedom, one per body only in the vertical direction (heave) and the other with five degrees of freedom, adding the horizontal component of movement for the buoy and the submerged body (surge). The results are compared with previous results of a WEC modeled as a single body system, with only one degree of freedom along the vertical axis. Preliminary results show that the produced energy in a simplified 1 DoF scheme is higher than results produced by the 3 DoF scheme, and is then approximately equal for the 5 DoF. The power matrixes present similar shapes. So the simplification made by neglecting the surge mode, in order to have a simpler dynamic model, doesn't give a significant improvement in the capture width and energy production assessment. |
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Assessment of the surge effects in a heaving point absorber in the Mediterranean Sea |
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