Affiliation:
1. Department of Ocean System Engineering, Jeju National University, Jeju 690-756, Republic of Korea
Abstract
The wave energy converter (WEC) system, which extracts electricity through the relative heave motion of two concentric cylinders, comprises an inner cylinder and a torus-type outer cylinder sliding along the inner cylinder. To maximize the relative heave motion between two cylinders, the natural frequencies of the two cylinders must be precisely tuned to resonate and be situated on each side of the peak frequency of the wave spectrum. However, the demerit of this strategy is that it demands a deep draft of each cylinder for tuning, and a large-scale PTO damping device is necessary for mechanical power amplified by resonance. As an alternative to efficient and stable WECs, we adopt a new strategy in which the outer cylinder follows the incoming waves and the motion of the inner one is restricted to be minimal using a heave disk. The viscous damping due to formation of vortices at the disk edge is realized by the drag force in the Morison equation. The developed hydrodynamic model of two-body WEC based on a matched eigenfunction expansion method (MEEM) is applied to irregular waves characterized by significant wave height and peak period. It is found that the present two-body WEC with heave disk produces wave energy stably across a wide range of wave frequencies compared to the previous two-body WECs using resonance.
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
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