A review of power electronics for nearshore wave energy converter applications

J Burhanudin, ASA Hasim, AM Ishak… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In compliance with the green energy policy, mitigation from high fossil fuel dependency is
becoming a new objective for most countries, including Malaysia. Wave energy is among …

Optimization of hydraulic power take-off system settings for point absorber wave energy converter

E Amini, H Mehdipour, E Faraggiana, D Golbaz… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Ocean wave renewable energy is becoming a key part of the renewable energy industry
over the recent decades. By developing wave energy converters (WECs), their power take …

Layout optimisation of offshore wave energy converters using a novel multi-swarm cooperative algorithm with backtracking strategy: A case study from coasts of …

M Neshat, S Mirjalili, NY Sergiienko, S Esmaeilzadeh… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wave energy technologies have the potential to play a significant role in the supply of
renewable energy worldwide. One of the most promising designs for wave energy …

Improving computational efficiency in WEC design: Spectral-domain modelling in techno-economic optimization

M Bonfanti, G Giorgi - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wave energy converter (WEC) optimization often underlines incremental and iterative
approaches that result in suboptimal solutions, since all the elements that concur with a …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing the hydraulic power take-off system in a wave energy converter

S Zeinali, M Wiktorsson, J Forsberg, G Lindgren… - Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to determine the optimal pressure for the accumulator tank in a wave energy
converter (WEC) with hydraulic power take-off (PTO) to maximize energy generation. A …

A parametric study of wave energy converter layouts in real wave models

E Amini, D Golbaz, F Amini, M Majidi Nezhad… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ocean wave energy is a broadly accessible renewable energy source; however, it is not fully
developed. Further studies on wave energy converter (WEC) technologies are required in …

A comparative study of metaheuristic algorithms for wave energy converter power take-off optimisation: A case study for eastern Australia

E Amini, D Golbaz, R Asadi, M Nasiri, O Ceylan… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the most encouraging sorts of renewable energy is ocean wave energy. In spite of a
large number of investigations in this field during the last decade, wave energy technologies …

Comparative study on metaheuristic algorithms for optimising wave energy converters

F Cao, M Han, H Shi, M Li, Z Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The optimisation of WECs is a focus current research. With the increase in optimisation
variables, traditional optimisation methods are insufficient to find the best design in a wide …

Parameter identification of motors by cuckoo search using steady-state relations

O Rodriguez-Abreo, JM Hernandez-Paredes… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The direct current (DC) motors are widely used; therefore, they are subject to multiple
studies, different control techniques or analyses require a dynamic DC motor model. The …

Optimal hydraulic PTO and linear permanent magnet generator for a floating two-buoy wave energy converter

D Li, S Sharma, T Wang, AGL Borthwick, X Dong… - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
A fully coupled fluid-structure-power take-off model is used to investigate the optimal energy
capture of a floating two-buoy wave energy converter excited by regular waves and irregular …