Marine Power Generation Methods and Future Developments

Abstract

With the continuous advancement of science and technology, ocean energy continues to develop because of its renewable, clean and stable advantages. This paper mainly studies the issue of ocean energy power generation, focusing on tidal energy power generation, wave energy power generation and ocean current power generation. The practical application of tidal energy power generation, and the negative and positive impacts of clean energy such as tidal energy on the marine environment after application, various methods and advantages and disadvantages of ocean current/ocean current power generation are described, and the explanation of many instruments in these power generation methods. For instance, the equipment used in tidal energy, wave energy and ocean current power generation are oscillating water column wave energy converter, mechanical wave energy generation, the diffuser-augmented floating hydro turbine, Darrieus deep-sea vertical axis turbine and so on. At last, from the actual cases of China's use of clean energy such as tidal energy and wave energy to generate electricity, we analyzed the future development trend of ocean energy and concluded that ocean energy will be vigorously developed in the future to replace some fossil energy.