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Yanan Wu, He Wu, Hooi-Siang Kang and He Li
This article focuses on the optimization of the layout of a tidal current turbine array (TCTA) using the Quantum Discrete Particle Swarm (QDPS) algorithm. The objective of the optimization is to balance the maximum energy output and minimum levelized cos...
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Hao Chen, Qi Li, Mohamed Benbouzid, Jingang Han and Nadia Aït-Ahmed
Considering the depletion of oil, coal, gas and other fossil energy, and the increasingly serious environmental pollution, all countries in the world are developing clean and renewable energy, such as wind energy, water energy, solar energy, etc., to all...
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Anahí Bermúdez-Romero, Vanesa Magar, Markus S. Gross, Victor M. Godínez, Manuel López-Mariscal and Julio Candela
Because of the need to diversify the renewable energy matrix and because hydrokinetic tidal energy technologies are mature, many in-stream tidal energy resource studies are available globally. Still, there are many questions regarding the effect of seabe...
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Ross O?Connell, Rebecca Furlong, Marco Guerrini, Margaret Cullinane and Jimmy Murphy
Ireland and the UK possess vast ocean energy resources within their respective maritime areas. However, not all offshore areas are suitable for deployment of ocean energy devices. This article describes the development of a multitude of geospatial data r...
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Leticia del Horno, Eva Segura, José A. Somolinos and Rafael Morales
It is necessary to determine the volume of water contained in a tank for a wide range of applications, such as the automation and monitoring of industrial operations. In the context of the marine industry, the aforementioned information plays a vital rol...
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James Slingsby, Beth E. Scott, Louise Kregting, Jason McIlvenny, Jared Wilson and Benjamin J. Williamson
Tidal energy is a rapidly developing area of the marine renewable energy sector that requires converters to be placed within areas of fast current speeds to be commercially viable. Tidal environments are also utilised by marine fauna (marine mammals, sea...
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Andrea E. Copping, Daniel J. Hasselman, Charles W. Bangley, Joel Culina and Max Carcas
Commercial development of tidal stream energy is hampered by technical and financial challenges, and impeded by uncertainty about potential environmental effects that drive environmental risk assessments and permitting (consenting) processes. The effect ...
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Weiyuan Wang, Zijun Hu, Mengyu Li and Hongxing Zhang
In this paper, a numerical method is employed to assess tidal current energy resources in the Pearl River Estuary, China. The numerical model for tidal current simulation in the estuary is developed based on the MIKE 21 model, which enables numerical sim...
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Joseph Haxel, Xiaoqin Zang, Jayson Martinez, Brian Polagye, Garrett Staines, Zhiqun Daniel Deng, Martin Wosnik and Patrick O?Byrne
Acoustic emissions from current energy converters remain an environmental concern for regulators because of their potential effects on marine life and uncertainties about their effects stemming from a lack of sufficient observational data. Several recent...
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James Slingsby, Beth E. Scott, Louise Kregting, Jason McIlvenny, Jared Wilson, Ana Couto, Deon Roos, Marion Yanez and Benjamin J. Williamson
High-flow tidal stream environments, targeted for tidal turbine installations, exhibit turbulent features, at fine spatio-temporal scales (metres and seconds), created by site-specific topography and bathymetry. Bed-derived turbulent features (kolk-boils...
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Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, João Chambel, Francisco Taveira-Pinto, Paulo Rosa-Santos, Francisco V. C. Taveira-Pinto, Gianmaria Giannini and Piet Haerens
The offshore wind is the sector of marine renewable energy with the highest commercial development at present. The margin to optimise offshore wind foundations is considerable, thus attracting both the scientific and the industrial community. Due to the ...
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Ilan Robin, Anne-Claire Bennis and Jean-Claude Dauvin
The overall potential for recoverable tidal energy depends partly on the tidal turbine technologies used. One of problematic points is the minimum flow velocity required to set the rotor into motion. The novelty of the paper is the setup of an innovative...
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Ilan Robin, Anne-Claire Bennis and Jean-Claude Dauvin
Biofouling is an important factor to consider when calculating the energetic efficiency of tidal farms. Despite the fact that biofouling effects have been widely investigated in the past for naval applications, very few studies concern tidal turbines. Th...
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Lucas Mackie, Daniel Coles, Matthew Piggott and Athanasios Angeloudis
The extraction of tidal energy from head differences represents a predictable and flexible option for generating electricity. Here, we investigate the generation potential of prospective tidal power plants in the UK. Originally conceived as separate proj...
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Mathew B. R. Topper, Sterling S. Olson and Jesse D. Roberts
Hydrokinetic tidal energy converter (TEC) technology is yet to become cost competitive with other renewable energy sources. Understanding the interaction between energy production and the costs incurred harvesting that energy may unlock the economic pote...
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Markus Gross and Vanesa Magar
Tidal renewable energy is a promising alternative energy resource, and marginal seas are known as excellent sites for tidal energy exploitation. In-stream and tidal energy devices are less exposed to extreme weather events than wind energy. Nevertheless,...
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Zhaoqing Yang, Taiping Wang, Ziyu Xiao, Levi Kilcher, Kevin Haas, Huijie Xue and Xi Feng
Numerical models have been widely used for the resource characterization and assessment of tidal instream energy. The accurate assessment of tidal stream energy resources at a feasibility or project-design scale requires detailed hydrodynamic model simul...
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Dingnan Song, Ran Liu, Zhiwei Zhang, Dingding Yang and Tianzhen Wang
Tidal stream turbines (TSTs) harness the kinetic energy of tides to generate electricity by rotating the rotor. Biofouling will lead to an imbalance between the blades, resulting in imbalanced torque and voltage across the windings, ultimately polluting ...
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Jérôme Thiébot, Mouncef Sedrati and Sylvain Guillou
The tidal currents of the Gulf of Morbihan reach up to 3.5 m/s within a narrow (200 m large) channel connecting the sea to the inner part of the gulf. In this study, a Telemac2D model validated with a large dataset of field measurements is used to assess...
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Sana Toumi, Yassine Amirat, Elhoussin Elbouchikhi, Zhibin Zhou and Mohamed Benbouzid
This article deals with the techno-economic optimal sizing of a tidal stream turbine (TST)?battery system. In this study, the TST system consists of a turbine rotor and a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) associated with a three-phase convert...
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