Wave-to-wave Control of Wave Energy Converter Power-take-offs

波浪能转换器取力器的波对波控制

• 批准号: 422700-2012
• 负责人: Buckham, Brad
• 金额: $ 1.69万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=495838
• 关键词: Wave; wave; Control; Energy; Converter

While Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are often cited as a valued entry in the portfolio of renewable energy technologies, very rarely is any precision provided in the description of the Canadian wave energy opportunity. Ambiguity in the evaluation of Canada's wave resource stems from a void of comprehensive resource data and a lack of accessible performance data defining how converters harness that resource. At UVic's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, the West Coast Wave Initiative (WCWI) is dramatically improving the understanding of the raw resource and how one class of WEC, referred to as point absorbers, can be used at a remote off-grid community on Vancouver Island. However, projects such as the WCWI rely on converter performance data collected through commercial WEC demonstrations of first-of-a-kind devices. That data is specific to design and control innovations that represent acceptable risks at the demonstration stage, and consequently it does not provide a broad understanding of how conversion technology performs, how that performance can change and through what advances, and what the potential is for later stage devices to serve community, regional or national scale electricity demands.

虽然波浪能转换器（WEC）经常被认为是可再生能源技术组合中的一个有价值的项目，但在描述加拿大波浪能机会时很少提供任何精确的信息。 在加拿大的波浪资源的评估模糊源于一个全面的资源数据和缺乏可访问的性能数据定义转换器如何利用该资源的空白。 在UVic的综合能源系统研究所，西海岸波浪倡议（WCWI）正在极大地提高对原始资源的理解，以及如何在温哥华岛的偏远离网社区使用一类WEC，称为点吸收器。 然而，像WCWI这样的项目依赖于通过首个同类设备的商业WEC演示收集的转换器性能数据。 这些数据是特定于在示范阶段代表可接受风险的设计和控制创新的，因此它不能提供对转换技术如何执行的广泛理解，性能如何改变以及通过什么进步，以及后期设备服务于社区，区域或国家规模电力需求的潜力。