U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1
Abstract
Numerous studies have shown that advanced control of a wave energy converter's (WEC's) power take off (PTO) can provide significant increases (on the order of 200-300%) in WEC energy absorption. Transitioning these control approaches from simplified paper studies to application in full-scale devices remains an open and extremely challenging problem will be central to creating economically competitive WECs and delivering clean renewable energy to the US electrical grid. The Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls project is targeted on assisting WEC developers to apply novel control systems for their devices and thus achieving major increases in performance and economic viability. The success of any control strategy is based directly upon the availability of a reduced-order model with the ability to accurately capture the dynamics of the system with sufficient accuracy. A model-scale WEC was designed and fabricated for use in studies to advance the state-of-the-art in WEC controls. This test, which is the first in a series of planned tests, focused on system identification (system ID) and model validation.
- Authors:
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- Sandia National Laboratories
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 151
- Research Org.:
- Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR); Sandia National Laboratories
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
- Collaborations:
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Subject:
- 16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER; Hydrokinetic; MHK; Marine; NaturalPoint Tracking; absorption; carderock; control; data acquisition; design; dynamics; economic; energy; experiment; lab test; mask; model; modeling; performance; power; pressure; sensors; system ID; tank; test; validation; viability; vibration; wave; wave energy converter; wave tanke; wec
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1460418
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15473/1460418
Citation Formats
Coe, Ryan. Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.15473/1460418.
Coe, Ryan. Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/1460418
Coe, Ryan. 2016.
"Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls, Test 1". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/1460418. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1460418. Pub date:Thu Feb 25 23:00:00 EST 2016
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