Hydrodynamic Modeling and Feasibility Study of a Wave- Powered Pump

本研究旨在确定在偏远沿海和岛屿地区利用波浪能提供高压海水的可行性。这具有潜在的商业价值，因为高压海水有许多可能的用途：它可以在陆上水产养殖池中循环，通过反渗透膜产生淡水，或通过脉冲涡轮机产生电力。整个项目（第一至第三阶段）的重点是满足发展中国家农村地区的小规模需要，在这些地区，即使每天提供几千升的淡水和几千瓦的电力，也会大大改善基本生活条件和促进经济增长。例如，岸上提供冰（需要淡水和电力）将提高当地渔业的赚钱能力。为了确定这一概念的可行性，需要对波能吸收器的水动力特性进行基础研究。波能吸收器是一根倾斜的圆柱形管道，完全淹没在海面下，一端置于海底。

This research is directed towards establishing the feasibility of using wave energy to provide high-pressure seawater at remote coastal and island locations. This has potential commercial value because of the many possible uses of high-pressure seawater: it can be circulated in onshore aquaculture tanks, passed through a reverse osmosis membrane to produce fresh water, or passed through an impulse turbine to generate electric power. The entire project (Phases I through III) is focused on the small-scale needs of rural areas in developing countries, where even the provision of a few thousand liters of fresh water per day of a few kilowatts of power would significantly improve basic living conditions and facilitate economic growth. For example, the shoreside provision of ice (requiring both fresh water and electricity) would enhance the cash-earning power of local fisheries. In order to establish the feasibility of this concept, fundamental research is needed on the hydrodynamic behavior of the wave energy absorber, which is an inclined cylindrical pipe, entirely submerged beneath the sea surface, with one end resting on the seafloor.