Abstract
This paper examines the calculation of the power delivered from a wave energy converter using a conventional frequency transfer function approach and compares this with an alternative analysis based on a "wave-by-wave" basis. This alternative method goes some way to estimating the power that a resonant device, capable of tuning, might extract from a random sea state. For the purposes of this paper the time series were synthesized from a range of spectra representative of unimodal and bimodal sea states. The calculated power from each method is compared. An initial examination of how the delivered power can be related to the bandwidth of the sea is also presented. Copyright © 2006 by The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of The Sixteenth 2006 International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE 2006 |
| Pages | 460-465 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | 16th 2006 International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: 28 May 2006 → 2 Jun 2006 |
Conference
| Conference | 16th 2006 International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference |
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| Abbreviated title | ISOPE 2006 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Francisco, CA |
| Period | 28/05/06 → 2/06/06 |
Keywords
- Bandwidth
- Renewable energy
- Tuning
- Wave power
