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Dingnan Song, Ran Liu, Zhiwei Zhang, Dingding Yang and Tianzhen Wang
Tidal stream turbines (TSTs) harness the kinetic energy of tides to generate electricity by rotating the rotor. Biofouling will lead to an imbalance between the blades, resulting in imbalanced torque and voltage across the windings, ultimately polluting ...
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Jérôme Thiébot, Mouncef Sedrati and Sylvain Guillou
The tidal currents of the Gulf of Morbihan reach up to 3.5 m/s within a narrow (200 m large) channel connecting the sea to the inner part of the gulf. In this study, a Telemac2D model validated with a large dataset of field measurements is used to assess...
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Yufan He, Can Luo, Li Cheng, Yandong Gu and Bin Gu
The shaft-type tubular pumping station has the remarkable characteristics of a large flow rate and high efficiency. It can realize the functions of irrigation, pumping, and drainage through pumping and generating conditions considering tides. Moreover, i...
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Christian Bipongo Ndeke, Marco Adonis and Ali Almaktoof
This paper presents an energy management strategy using a Stateflow controller related to DC microgrids with the important penetration of renewable energy. The increase in world electricity demand is one of the principal drivers of the exhaustion of foss...
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Chunyun Shen, Jiahao Zhang, Chenglin Ding and Shiming Wang
By combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and surrogate model method (SMM), the relationship between turbine performance and airfoil shape and flow characteristics at low flow rate is revealed. In this paper, the flow velocity tidal energy airfoil ...
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Yanan Wu, He Wu, Hooi-Siang Kang and He Li
This article focuses on the optimization of the layout of a tidal current turbine array (TCTA) using the Quantum Discrete Particle Swarm (QDPS) algorithm. The objective of the optimization is to balance the maximum energy output and minimum levelized cos...
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Leticia del Horno, Eva Segura, José A. Somolinos and Rafael Morales
It is necessary to determine the volume of water contained in a tank for a wide range of applications, such as the automation and monitoring of industrial operations. In the context of the marine industry, the aforementioned information plays a vital rol...
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James Slingsby, Beth E. Scott, Louise Kregting, Jason McIlvenny, Jared Wilson and Benjamin J. Williamson
Tidal energy is a rapidly developing area of the marine renewable energy sector that requires converters to be placed within areas of fast current speeds to be commercially viable. Tidal environments are also utilised by marine fauna (marine mammals, sea...
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Andrea E. Copping, Daniel J. Hasselman, Charles W. Bangley, Joel Culina and Max Carcas
Commercial development of tidal stream energy is hampered by technical and financial challenges, and impeded by uncertainty about potential environmental effects that drive environmental risk assessments and permitting (consenting) processes. The effect ...
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Ross O?Connell, Rebecca Furlong, Marco Guerrini, Margaret Cullinane and Jimmy Murphy
Ireland and the UK possess vast ocean energy resources within their respective maritime areas. However, not all offshore areas are suitable for deployment of ocean energy devices. This article describes the development of a multitude of geospatial data r...
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