Ocean Wave Energy Conversion: Resource, Technologies and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781785482649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 262 str.

Aurelien Babarit

Opis

Ocean wave energy is a vast renewable energy source. For over forty years, hundreds of concepts for wave energy conversion have been invented and patented. For some of them, full scale prototypes have been built and tested at sea. Despite all these efforts, no wave energy technology has reached the commercial stage. Nevertheless, a lot of knowledge has been generated. This book provides a synthesis of this knowledge with the focus on the potential of wave energy as a renewable energy source; the principles for wave energy conversion and the wave energy technologies; and their energy performance.

• Reviews the state of knowledge and developments on wave energy recovery
• Presents the history of wave energy recovery
• Classifies the various systems for recovering this type of energy

Spis treści

1. Potential: Energy Resource and Markets 2. Wave Energy Conversion: Historical Perspective 3. Working Principles and Technologies of Wave Energy Conversion 4. Energy Performance of Wave Energy Converters

O autorze

Aurélien Babarit is head of the Marine and Ocean Energies team at the LHEEA laboratory of the École Centrale de Nantes - CNRS and director of the GDR Énergies Marines Renouvelables (CNRS) in France. Since 2002, his research has focused on the modeling and optimization of wave energy converters.