Unlike more established renewable energy conversion technologies, such as wind turbines,
wave power systems have reached neither commercial maturity, nor technological …

Reducing the cost of energy of wave energy converters is key for the advancement of the
technology. The costs associated with the device structure show the highest potential to …

Abstract Model predictive control (MPC) has achieved considerable success in the process
industries, with its ability to deal with linear and nonlinear models, while observing system …

Harnessing energy from ocean waves presents a promising solution to combating global
climate change in the marine environment, significantly contributing to mitigation efforts …

Although sea and ocean waves have been widely acknowledged to have the potential of
providing sustainable and renewable energy, the emergence of a self-sufficient and mature …

Wave energy is among the many renewable energy technologies being researched and
developed to address the increasing demand for low-emissions energy. The unique design …

This paper presents a systematic methodology to optimise the geometry of a three-body
hinge-barge wave energy converter, to maximise the energy extraction of the device in given …

This paper aims to investigate electric dynamics and improve electric power generation of
an isolated wave energy converter that uses a linear permanent magnet generator as the …

Wave energy converter (WEC) optimization often underlines incremental and iterative
approaches that result in suboptimal solutions, since all the elements that concur with a …

This paper presents the hydrodynamic optimization study of CECO, a point absorber wave
energy converter (WEC) with sloped motion. To maintain the overall costs, the characteristic …