Design, Construction and Testing of a Hydraulic Power Take-Off for Wave Energy Converters

This paper presents the construction, mathematical modeling and testing of a scaled universal hydraulic Power Take-Off (PTO) device for Wave Energy Converters (WECs). A specific prototype and test bench were designed and built to carry out the tests. The results obtained from these tests were used t...

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Main Authors: Joseba Lasa, Juan Carlos Antolin, Carlos Angulo, Patxi Estensoro, Maider Santos, Pierpaolo Ricci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-06-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/5/6/2060