Advancements of wave energy converters based on power take off (PTO) systems: A review

R Ahamed, K McKee, I Howard - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Ocean waves contain one of the world's largest untapped and predictable renewable energy
sources that can be used to fulfil the energy demand in the present energy crises situation …

Solid gravity energy storage: A review

W Tong, Z Lu, W Chen, M Han, G Zhao, X Wang… - Journal of energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large-scale energy storage technology is crucial to maintaining a high-proportion
renewable energy power system stability and addressing the energy crisis and …

A review of wave energy converter technology

B Drew, AR Plummer, MN Sahinkaya - 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Ocean waves are a huge, largely untapped energy resource, and the potential for extracting
energy from waves is considerable. Research in this area is driven by the need to meet …

Application of energy conversion and integration technologies based on electro-hydraulic hybrid power systems: A review

J Yang, B Liu, T Zhang, J Hong, H Zhang - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electro-hydraulic hybrid technology has become one of the most critical and advanced
branches in new energy and engineering machinery, which is not mature enough in terms of …

Hydrodynamic modelling of a direct drive wave energy converter

M Eriksson, J Isberg, M Leijon - International Journal of Engineering …, 2005 - Elsevier
In this article we present numerical studies of waves interacting with a cylindrical point
absorber that is directly driving a seabed based linear generator. For waves useful for power …

Review of magnetic gear technologies and their applications in marine energy

B McGilton, R Crozier, A McDonald… - IET Renewable Power …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The marine energy industry is in its early stages but has a large potential for growth. One of
the most significant challenges is the reduction of operation and maintenance costs …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the linear generator type of wave energy converters' power take-off systems

R Ahamed, K McKee, I Howard - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The traditional wave energy converters (WECs) use hydraulic or turbine-type power take-off
(PTO) mechanisms which consist of many moving parts, creating mechanical complexity and …

[PDF][PDF] Power take-off systems for WECs

A Têtu - Handbook of ocean wave energy, 2017 - library.oapen.org
Ocean waves have a broad frequency band that changes with time and season, and present
extreme events. On the other hand, wave energy converters are often designed with an …

Shape optimization of wave energy converters for broadband directional incident waves

S Esmaeilzadeh, MR Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Here, through a systematic methodology and the use of high performance computing, we
calculate the optimum shape for a wave energy converter under the action of incident waves …

Design optimisation and cost analysis of linear vernier electric machine-based gravity energy storage systems

CD Botha, MJ Kamper - Journal of energy storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy storage technologies have been gaining increasing attention as a way to help
integrate variable and intermittent renewable energy sources into the grid. In this paper, a …