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On improving wave energy conversion, part I: Optimal and control technologies

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  • Sheng, Wanan
  • Alcorn, Raymond
  • Lewis, Anthony

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Extracting wave energy from seas has been proven to be very difficult although various technologies have been developed since 1970s. Among the proposed technologies, only few of them have been actually progressed to the advanced stages such as sea trials or pre-commercial sea trial and engineering. One critical question may be how we can design an efficient wave energy converter or how the efficiency of a wave energy converter can be improved using optimal and control technologies, because higher energy conversion efficiency for a wave energy converter is always pursued and it mainly decides the cost of the wave energy production.

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  • Sheng, Wanan & Alcorn, Raymond & Lewis, Anthony, 2015. "On improving wave energy conversion, part I: Optimal and control technologies," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 922-934.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:75:y:2015:i:c:p:922-934
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.09.048
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