Advanced modeling and control of a wave energy conversion system

Author

Leclerc, J. ; Dumée, P. ; Kimoulakis, N. ; Kladas, A.

Author_Institution

Ecole Navale de Brest, Brest, France

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

2041

Lastpage

2045

Abstract

The paper presents recent advances of a sea wave energy conversion system into electrical energy both in modeling and control strategy techniques. First, the simulation model has been improved in order to better represent the impact of the drag force due to the friction of water on the cylindrical buoy. Moreover, the control strategy has been modified through a real-time control scheme which adapts the system to the fundamental pulsation of the incoming wave time variation. A detailed analysis of the additional power which can be extracted from the sea waves through the proposed system improvements is given.

Keywords

power convertors; power generation control; wave power plants; advanced control strategy techniques; advanced modeling strategy techniques; cylindrical buoy; electrical energy; real-time control scheme; sea wave energy conversion system; the force impact; water friction; Drag; Energy conversion; Equations; Force; Generators; Hydrodynamics; Mathematical model; Wave energy converter; coupled multi-physics problem; drag force; real-time control strategy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2012 XXth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marseille

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0143-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0141-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICElMach.2012.6350163

Filename

6350163