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:
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 151
- DOE Contract Number:
- FY16 AOP 02010100702
- Research Org.:
- Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- 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
- Keywords:
- MHK; Marine; Hydrokinetic; energy; power; wec; wave energy converter; control; dynamics; system ID; modeling; model; validation; wave tanke; carderock; mask; wave; test; absorption; performance; economic; viability; design; tank; experiment; lab test; data acquisition; pressure; vibration; NaturalPoint Tracking; sensors
- Geolocation:
- 38.975532, -77.191154
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1460418
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15473/1460418
- Project Location:
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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:Fri Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2016
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