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Hongyuan Shi, Xuri Zhang, Wenyan Du, Qingjie Li, Hengliang Qu and Zaijin You
The evolution of renewable energy technologies may surmount fossil fuel disadvantages. Wave energy is considered one of the best alternatives to fossil energy due to its advantages. The 40-year (1979?2018) spatio-temporal distribution of wave energy is p...
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Jaime Cortés, Felipe Lucero, Leandro Suarez, Cristian Escauriaza, Sergio A. Navarrete, Gonzalo Tampier, Cristian Cifuentes, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Daniel Manriquez, Bárbara Parragué, Nicole Osiadacz and Randy Finke
Current advances in wave energy technologies have enabled the development of new integrated measurement platforms powered by the energy of wave motion. Instrumentation is now being deployed for the long-term observation of the coastal ocean, with the obj...
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Maria Apolonia and Teresa Simas
So far, very few studies have focused on the quantification of the environmental impacts of a wave energy converter. The current study presents a preliminary Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the MegaRoller wave energy converter, aiming to contribute to dec...
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Vincent S. Neary, Seongho Ahn, Bibiana E. Seng, Mohammad Nabi Allahdadi, Taiping Wang, Zhaoqing Yang and Ruoying He
Best practices and international standards for determining n-year return period extreme wave (sea states) conditions allow wave energy converter designers and project developers the option to apply simple univariate or more complex bivariate extreme valu...
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Jassiel V. Hernández-Fontes, Angélica Felix, Edgar Mendoza, Yandy Rodríguez Cueto and Rodolfo Silva
The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico offer a variety of marine energy sources for exploitation. Although the Mexican government has made important efforts to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, national participation in clean energies is still li...
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Clayton E. Hiles, Scott J. Beatty and Adrian De Andres
Critical to evaluating the economic viability of a wave energy project is: (1) a robust estimate of the electricity production throughout the project lifetime and (2) an understanding of the uncertainty associated with said estimate. Standardization effo...
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Simon Ambühl, Morten Kramer and John Dalsgaard Sørensen
The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) from wave energy converters (WECs) needs to be decreased in order to be able to become competitive with other renewable electricity sources. Probabilistic reliability methods can be used to optimize the structure of WE...
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Stefano Parmeggiani, Jens Peter Kofoed and Erik Friis-Madsen
An overtopping model specifically suited for Wave Dragon is needed in order to improve the reliability of its performance estimates. The model shall be comprehensive of all relevant physical processes that affect overtopping and flexible to adapt to any ...
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Magnus Schneider, Mariana Bernardino, Marta Gonçalves and C. Guedes Soares
This study estimates wave energy for the Moroccan Atlantic coast using SWAN, a third-generation wave model, covering a period of 30 years, from 1991 to 2020. The model is forced by the wind from the ERA-5 reanalysis dataset and uses boundary conditions g...
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Nicolas Guillou, Georges Chapalain and Philippe Sergent
Accurate evaluations of the available and technically exploitable wave energy resources are fundamental to optimise the design and implementation of energy converters in the marine environment. However, long-term resource assessments have been primarily ...
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Emiliano Gorr-Pozzi, Héctor García-Nava, Marco Larrañaga, Melissa G. Jaramillo-Torres and Manuel G. Verduzco-Zapata
Most wave energy converters (WECs) are designed to operate in high-latitude energetic seas, limiting their performance in regions usually dominated by milder conditions. The present study assesses the performance of complete test-stage WECs in farms that...
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Ximun Lastiri, Stéphane Abadie, Philippe Maron, Matthias Delpey, Pedro Liria, Julien Mader and Volker Roeber
Wave resource assessment is the first step toward the installation of a wave energy converter (WEC). To support initiatives for wave energy development in the southwest of France, a coastal wave database is built from a 44-year hindcast simulation with t...
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Philippe Sergent, Virginie Baudry, Arnaud De Bonviller, Bertrand Michard and Jérémy Dugor
There are few general analyses of the interest of onshore wave energy converters (onshore WEC) in terms of resources, efficiency and cost. The case of The Channel on the Atlantic coast of France is chosen here to illustrate the issues related to onshore ...
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Nicolas Guillou, George Lavidas and Georges Chapalain
Over recent decades, the exploitation of wave energy resources has sparked a wide range of technologies dedicated to capturing the available power with maximum efficiency, reduced costs, and minimum environmental impacts. These different objectives are f...
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Damien Sous
The present study aims to estimate the potential of artificial reef pass as a renewable source of energy. The overall idea is to mimic the functioning of natural reef?lagoon systems in which the cross-reef pressure gradient induced by wave breaking is ab...
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Dina Silva, Eugen Rusu and Carlos Guedes Soares
The wave energy in a shallow water location is evaluated considering the influence of the local tide and wind on the wave propagation. The target is the coastal area just north of the Portuguese city of Peniche, where a wave energy converter operates on ...
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Reduan Atan, Jamie Goggins and Stephen Nash
Wave characteristic assessments of wave energy test sites provide a greater understanding of prevailing wave conditions and are therefore extremely important to both wave energy test site operators and clients as they can inform wave energy converter des...
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Victor Ramos, Gianmaria Giannini, Tomás Calheiros-Cabral, Paulo Rosa-Santos and Francisco Taveira-Pinto
In recent years, seaports have faced increasing pressure to transition towards a low-carbon and more sustainable energy model. In this context, the exploitation of the local wave energy resource may appear as a promising alternative. Therefore, the objec...
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Yang Yi, Ke Sun, Yongqian Liu, Gang Ma, Chuankai Zhao, Fukang Zhang and Jianhua Zhang
The wave-energy excitation of point absorbers is highly associated with their resonant movement, and harmonic characteristics are of increasing concern in affecting resonance. However, the commonly used linearized power take-off (PTO) systems underestima...
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Johannes Palm, Claes Eskilsson, Lars Bergdahl and Rickard E. Bensow
This paper analyses the nonlinear forces on a moored point-absorbing wave energy converter (WEC) in resonance at prototype scale (1:1) and at model scale (1:16). Three simulation types were used: Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (RANS), Euler and the line...
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