• DocumentCode
    1665697
  • Title

    Modeling and simulating an Archimedes Wave Swing park in steady state conditions

  • Author

    Czech, Balazs ; Bauer, Pavol ; Polinder, Henk ; Korondi, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    10
  • Abstract
    To increase the clean and renewable energy used presently, energy could be extracted from the sea. Here an Archimedes wave swing (AWS) park is proposed to convert the motion of the sea waves into electricity with a capacity of 90 MW. In order to find the most suitable way to connect these devices, various electrical components are used which need to be modeled precisely to carry out the calculations and simulations. Several different topologies are implemented by linking up the devices to each other and to the electrical network and they will be evaluated according to important electrical and economical factors. The interest lies primarily in identifying farm configurations with a low cost profile and high efficiency.
  • Keywords
    offshore installations; renewable energy sources; wave power generation; Archimedes wave swing park; economical factors; electrical factors; power 90 MW; renewable energy; sea waves; Costs; Energy conversion; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Power generation economics; Prototypes; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation converters; Steady-state; Uniform resource locators; Voltage; Archimedes Wave Swing; IGBT; Pulse Width Modulation Voltage Source Converter; Wave Energy Converter Park;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Electronics and Applications, 2009. EPE '09. 13th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4432-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-90-75815-13-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5278939