FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A WAVE ENERGY FARM IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA: COMPARISON AMONG DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES

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 potenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: ARCHETTI, RENATA, S. Bozzi, G. Passoni
Other Authors: R. Archetti
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: American Society of Mechanical Engineering 2011
Subjects:
WAVE ENERGY
PELAMIS
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Arctic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11585/103004
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Summary: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.

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