Numerical Modeling and Optimization of the iProTech Pitching Inertial Pump (PIP) Wave Energy Converter (WEC) (Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number: CRD-22-22968)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- iProTech, Redwood City, CA (United States)
This work generated a first-of-its-kind automated workflow to couple time-domain simulations of wave energy converters written in one software language with a set of design generation and evaluation scripts written in another software language. This automated workflow used an existing optimization package to analyze the sensitivity of different design parameters on the power output of a specific WEC, iProTech’s Pitching Inertial Pump (PIP). Geometric, inertial, and power take-off variables were all varied and optimized to find values that produced the highest amount of power generated over varying wave conditions. The findings on these parameter sensitivity studies are used to inform future design iterations of the PIP WEC. Including more design variables in the optimizations will only increase computational run time and further software development is needed to analyze a larger optimization.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); iProTech, Redwood City, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 2478103
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/TP-5000-92188; CRD-22-22968; MainId:93969; UUID:a2d0417c-5ffc-46b6-9487-be1afc2d0db8; MainAdminId:74292
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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