Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System
This paper proposed a test bench device to emulate or simulate the electrical impulses of a wave energy converter (WEC). The objective of the study is to reconstruct under laboratory conditions the dynamics of a WEC in the form of an emulator to assess the performance, which, in this case, is the ou...
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| author | Ephraim Bonah Agyekum Seepana PraveenKumar Aleksei Eliseev Vladimir Ivanovich Velkin |
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| description | This paper proposed a test bench device to emulate or simulate the electrical impulses of a wave energy converter (WEC). The objective of the study is to reconstruct under laboratory conditions the dynamics of a WEC in the form of an emulator to assess the performance, which, in this case, is the output power. The designed emulator device is programmable, which makes it possible to create under laboratory conditions the operating mode of the wave generator, identical to how the wave generator would work under real sea conditions. Any control algorithm can be executed in the designed emulator. In order to test the performance of the constructed WEC emulator, an experiment was conducted to test its power output against that of a real point-absorber WEC. The results indicate that, although the power output for that of the real WEC was higher than the WEC emulator, the emulator performed perfectly well. The relatively low power output of the emulator was because of the type of algorithm that was written for the emulator, therefore increasing the speed of the motor in the algorithm (code) would result in higher output for the proposed WEC emulator. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-69f23000a1b34fe1bde4ce0d191db8c42023-11-21T11:29:31ZengMDPI AGInventions2411-51342021-03-01612010.3390/inventions6010020Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator SystemEphraim Bonah Agyekum0Seepana PraveenKumar1Aleksei Eliseev2Vladimir Ivanovich Velkin3Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia Boris, 19 Mira Street, 620002 Ekaterinburg, RussiaDepartment of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia Boris, 19 Mira Street, 620002 Ekaterinburg, RussiaOcean Rus Energy, Yubileynaya Street 1 Square 18, 623107 Pervouralsk, RussiaDepartment of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia Boris, 19 Mira Street, 620002 Ekaterinburg, RussiaThis paper proposed a test bench device to emulate or simulate the electrical impulses of a wave energy converter (WEC). The objective of the study is to reconstruct under laboratory conditions the dynamics of a WEC in the form of an emulator to assess the performance, which, in this case, is the output power. The designed emulator device is programmable, which makes it possible to create under laboratory conditions the operating mode of the wave generator, identical to how the wave generator would work under real sea conditions. Any control algorithm can be executed in the designed emulator. In order to test the performance of the constructed WEC emulator, an experiment was conducted to test its power output against that of a real point-absorber WEC. The results indicate that, although the power output for that of the real WEC was higher than the WEC emulator, the emulator performed perfectly well. The relatively low power output of the emulator was because of the type of algorithm that was written for the emulator, therefore increasing the speed of the motor in the algorithm (code) would result in higher output for the proposed WEC emulator.https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/6/1/20wave energy converteremulatorpoint absorberpower take-offhydrodynamics |
| spellingShingle | Ephraim Bonah Agyekum Seepana PraveenKumar Aleksei Eliseev Vladimir Ivanovich Velkin Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System Inventions wave energy converter emulator point absorber power take-off hydrodynamics |
| title | Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System |
| title_full | Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System |
| title_fullStr | Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System |
| title_short | Design and Construction of a Novel Simple and Low-Cost Test Bench Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter Emulator System |
| title_sort | design and construction of a novel simple and low cost test bench point absorber wave energy converter emulator system |
| topic | wave energy converter emulator point absorber power take-off hydrodynamics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/6/1/20 |
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