 Preliminary design of the OWEL wave energy converter pre-commercial demonstratorStephen Leybourne (), William M.J. Batten, AbuBakr S. Bahaj, Ned Minns and Jamie O'Nians Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 61, issue C, 51-56 Abstract: The consortium responsible for the next stage of development of the OWEL wave energy converter will construct and test a large scale, pre-commercial demonstrator. It is expected that this will be installed at Wave Hub during 2013 and grid connected for a testing period lasting around 12 months. This paper reports on the preliminary design work being undertaken in the development of the marine demonstration device. This concentrates primarily on producing a fully costed design by detailing the hydraulic design and aspects of stability as well as providing insight into various design features such as the power take-off, naval architecture, moorings and control. The design is being largely informed by the results of a 15 month research project funded by the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) in which the performance was determined and a detailed techno-economic model for a large scale OWEL device was generated. Keywords: Wave energy; Pre-commercial demonstrator design; Wave Hub; Physical model testing (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:61:y:2014:i:c:p:51-56 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.08.019 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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