IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/renene/v202y2023icp103-115.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Power output estimation of a two-body hinged raft wave energy converter using HF radar measured representative sea states at Wave Hub in the UK

Author

Listed:
  • Wang, Daming
  • Jin, Siya
  • Hann, Martyn
  • Conley, Daniel
  • Collins, Keri
  • Greaves, Deborah

Abstract

For the physical model testing of wave energy converters (WECs) in the wave basin, it is necessary to test the models in a small number of sea states. Previously, the H – T binning method was widely used to determine the sea states that are representative of an ocean area. However, it omitted much useful information such as the wave directionality. In this paper, a novel method, the K-means clustering technique is used in combination with High Frequency (HF) radar measured data from Wave Hub, UK. The results show that K-means clustering method better preserves the characteristics of the ocean area than the binning method. Furthermore, the impact of different regrouping methods on assessing the annual energy output of the model is investigated, by applying the K-means clustering method to a 1:25 two-body hinged raft WEC. It is found that although non-linear performance can be clearly observed in the model both physically and numerically. Due to the fact that most sea states from Wave Hub are out of the non-linearity range of the model, the non-linear effect on the overall performance of the WEC model in this ocean area is limited. It allows the annual energy output to be accurately predicted by using only a small number of representative sea states (defined as K) ≤15, based on K-means clustering method.

Suggested Citation

  • Wang, Daming & Jin, Siya & Hann, Martyn & Conley, Daniel & Collins, Keri & Greaves, Deborah, 2023. "Power output estimation of a two-body hinged raft wave energy converter using HF radar measured representative sea states at Wave Hub in the UK," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 202(C), pages 103-115.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:202:y:2023:i:c:p:103-115
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.11.048
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148122016846
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.renene.2022.11.048?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Santo, H. & Taylor, P.H. & Stansby, P.K., 2020. "The performance of the three-float M4 wave energy converter off Albany, on the south coast of western Australia, compared to Orkney (EMEC) in the U.K," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 444-459.
    2. Henderson, Ross, 2006. "Design, simulation, and testing of a novel hydraulic power take-off system for the Pelamis wave energy converter," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 271-283.
    3. Jin, Siya & Patton, Ron J. & Guo, Bingyong, 2018. "Viscosity effect on a point absorber wave energy converter hydrodynamics validated by simulation and experiment," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 129(PA), pages 500-512.
    4. Chen, Zhongfei & Zhou, Binzhen & Zhang, Liang & Li, Can & Zang, Jun & Zheng, Xiongbo & Xu, Jianan & Zhang, Wanchao, 2018. "Experimental and numerical study on a novel dual-resonance wave energy converter with a built-in power take-off system," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 165(PA), pages 1008-1020.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rodríguez, Claudio A. & Rosa-Santos, Paulo & Taveira-Pinto, Francisco, 2019. "Assessment of damping coefficients of power take-off systems of wave energy converters: A hybrid approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 169(C), pages 1022-1038.
    2. Guo, Bingyong & Ringwood, John V., 2021. "Geometric optimisation of wave energy conversion devices: A survey," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 297(C).
    3. Yu, Hui-Feng & Zhang, Yong-Liang & Zheng, Si-Ming, 2016. "Numerical study on the performance of a wave energy converter with three hinged bodies," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 1276-1286.
    4. Dina Silva & Eugen Rusu & Carlos Guedes Soares, 2013. "Evaluation of Various Technologies for Wave Energy Conversion in the Portuguese Nearshore," Energies, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-21, March.
    5. Ilyas, Arqam & Kashif, Syed A.R. & Saqib, Muhammad A. & Asad, Muhammad M., 2014. "Wave electrical energy systems: Implementation, challenges and environmental issues," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 260-268.
    6. Rahimi, Amir & Rezaei, Saeed & Parvizian, Jamshid & Mansourzadeh, Shahriar & Lund, Jorrid & Hssini, Radhouane & Düster, Alexander, 2022. "Numerical and experimental study of the hydrodynamic coefficients and power absorption of a two-body point absorber wave energy converter," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 201(P1), pages 181-193.
    7. Brenda Rojas-Delgado & Monica Alonso & Hortensia Amaris & Juan de Santiago, 2019. "Wave Power Output Smoothing through the Use of a High-Speed Kinetic Buffer," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-28, June.
    8. Adriano Silva Bastos & Tâmara Rita Costa de Souza & Dieimys Santos Ribeiro & Mirian de Lourdes Noronha Motta Melo & Carlos Barreira Martinez, 2023. "Wave Energy Generation in Brazil: A Georeferenced Oscillating Water Column Inventory," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-24, April.
    9. Gaspar, José F. & Calvário, Miguel & Kamarlouei, Mojtaba & Guedes Soares, C., 2016. "Power take-off concept for wave energy converters based on oil-hydraulic transformer units," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 1232-1246.
    10. Yong Wan & Chenqing Fan & Jie Zhang & Junmin Meng & Yongshou Dai & Ligang Li & Weifeng Sun & Peng Zhou & Jing Wang & Xudong Zhang, 2017. "Wave Energy Resource Assessment off the Coast of China around the Zhoushan Islands," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-25, September.
    11. Yu Zhou & Chongwei Zhang & Dezhi Ning, 2018. "Hydrodynamic Investigation of a Concentric Cylindrical OWC Wave Energy Converter," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-23, April.
    12. Sierra, J.P. & Martín, C. & Mösso, C. & Mestres, M. & Jebbad, R., 2016. "Wave energy potential along the Atlantic coast of Morocco," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 96(PA), pages 20-32.
    13. Addy Wahyudie & Tri Bagus Susilo & Fatima Alaryani & Cuk Supriyadi Ali Nandar & Mohammed Abdi Jama & Abdulrahman Daher & Hussain Shareef, 2020. "Wave Power Assessment in the Middle Part of the Southern Coast of Java Island," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-19, May.
    14. Yu, Tongshun & Shi, Hongda & Song, Wenfu, 2018. "Rotational characteristics and capture efficiency of a variable guide vane wave energy converter," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 275-290.
    15. Gaspar, José F. & Kamarlouei, Mojtaba & Sinha, Ashank & Xu, Haitong & Calvário, Miguel & Faÿ, François-Xavier & Robles, Eider & Guedes Soares, C., 2017. "Analysis of electrical drive speed control limitations of a power take-off system for wave energy converters," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 335-346.
    16. Shi, Xueli & Li, Shaowu & Liang, Bingchen & Zhao, Jianchun & Liu, Ye & Wang, Zhenlu, 2023. "Numerical study on the impact of wave-current interaction on wave energy resource assessments in Zhoushan sea area, China," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
    17. Jeon, Jooyoung & Taylor, James W., 2016. "Short-term density forecasting of wave energy using ARMA-GARCH models and kernel density estimation," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 991-1004.
    18. Ning, De-zhi & Mu, Di & Wang, Rong-quan & Mayon, Robert, 2023. "Experimental and numerical investigations on the solitary wave actions on a land-fixed OWC wave energy converter," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 282(C).
    19. Martinelli, Luca & Zanuttigh, Barbara & Kofoed, Jens Peter, 2011. "Selection of design power of wave energy converters based on wave basin experiments," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(11), pages 3124-3132.
    20. Orphin, Jarrah & Nader, Jean-Roch & Penesis, Irene, 2021. "Uncertainty analysis of a WEC model test experiment," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 216-233.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:202:y:2023:i:c:p:103-115. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.