A resistance emulation approach to optimize the wave energy harvesting for a direct drive point absorber

Rocha Mendonca, Hugo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4030-6907 and Martínez González, Sergio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-5898 (2016). A resistance emulation approach to optimize the wave energy harvesting for a direct drive point absorber. "IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy", v. 7 (n. 1); pp. 3-11. ISSN 1949-3029. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2015.2466097.

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Title: A resistance emulation approach to optimize the wave energy harvesting for a direct drive point absorber
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Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
Date: January 2016
ISSN: 1949-3029
Volume: 7
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Freetext Keywords: Boost rectifier, maximum captured power, point absorber ,resistance emulation, wave energy converter (WEC)
Faculty: E.T.S.I. Industriales (UPM)
Department: Automática, Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica e Informática Industrial
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

In general, a major challenge for the exploitation of renewable energies is to improve their efficiency. In electricity generation from the energy of ocean waves, not unlike other technologies, the converter must be optimized to make the energy harvesting economically feasible. This paper proposes a passive tuning control strategy of a point absorber in which the power captured is maximized by controlling the electromagnetic force of the generator with a resistance emulation approach. The proposed strategy consists of mapping the optimal values for regular waves and applying them to irregular waves. This strategy is tested in a wave energy converter in which the generator is connected to a boost rectifier converter whose controller is designed to emulate a resistance. The power electronics system implemented is validated by comparing its performance with the case in which the generator is directly connected to a resistive load. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed strategy as the maximum captured power is concentrated around the optimal values previously calculated and with the same behavior for both excitations.

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Government of Spain
ENE2012-36981
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Parques undimotrices como centrales eléctricas

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Item ID: 40777
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/40777/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:40777
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2015.2466097
Official URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7230307
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 14 Jun 2016 07:27
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2019 10:21
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