UMass 2-Body WEC Techno-Economic Assessment

Previsic, Mirko

doi:10.15473/2481240

Title: UMass 2-Body WEC Techno-Economic Assessment

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The University of Massachusetts (UMass) is developing a 2-body wave energy converter (WEC) device that is converting mechanical power into electricity using a mechanical motion rectifier that allows the system to couple to a flywheel. UMass has completed numerical modeling, wave tank testing, and PTO sub-system testing and needed assistance in developing a techno-economic model to enable optimization of their topology, comparison to a generic heaving point absorber topology, and guide the next steps in their development efforts. The core objective was to develop a techno-economic approach and modeling tool that allows benchmarking of the two topologies across a wide range of scales to evaluate their respective competitiveness in different application spaces. This data includes the final report as well as a supporting spreadsheet containing the data produced for this report.

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Previsic, Mirko

Re Vision Consulting

Publication Date:: Tue Nov 19 04:00:00 UTC 2024

Other Number(s):: 580

DOE Contract Number:: EE0008895

Research Org.:: Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR); Re Vision Consulting

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office (EE-4WP)

Collaborations:: Re Vision Consulting

Subject:: 16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER; Hydrokinetic; MHK; Marine; PTO; TEAMER; WEC; assessment; cost; data; economics; energy; excel; flywheel; optimization; power; power take-off; rectifier; techno-economic; technology; wave; wave energy converter

OSTI Identifier:: 2481240

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15473/2481240

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"UMass 2-Body WEC Techno-Economic Assessment".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/2481240.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2481240. Pub date:Tue Nov 19 04:00:00 UTC 2024

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  title        = {UMass 2-Body WEC Techno-Economic Assessment},

  author       = {Previsic, Mirko},

  abstractNote = {The University of Massachusetts (UMass) is developing a 2-body wave energy converter (WEC) device that is converting mechanical power into electricity using a mechanical motion rectifier that allows the system to couple to a flywheel. UMass has completed numerical modeling, wave tank testing, and PTO sub-system testing and needed assistance in developing a techno-economic model to enable optimization of their topology, comparison to a generic heaving point absorber topology, and guide the next steps in their development efforts. The core objective was to develop a techno-economic approach and modeling tool that allows benchmarking of the two topologies across a wide range of scales to evaluate their respective competitiveness in different application spaces. This data includes the final report as well as a supporting spreadsheet containing the data produced for this report.},

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