RT Journal Article
T1 An Iterative Refining Approach to Design the Control of Wave Energy Converters with Numerical Modeling and Scaled HIL Testing
A1 Delmonte, Nicola
A1 Robles, Eider
A1 Cova, Paolo
A1 Giuliani, Francesco
A1 Faÿ, François Xavier
A1 Lopez, Joseba
A1 Ruol, Piero
A1 Martinelli, Luca
AB The aim of this work is to show that a significant increase of the e_ciency of aWave Energy Converter (WEC) can be achieved already at an early design stage, through the choice of a turbine and control regulation, by means of an accurate Wave-to-Wire (W2W) modeling that couples the hydrodynamic response calibrated in a wave flume to a Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) test bench with sizes and rates not matching those of the system under development. Information on this procedure is relevant to save time, because the acquisition, the installation, and the setup of a test rig are not quick and easy. Moreover, power electronics and electric machines to emulate turbines and electric generators matching the real systems are not low-cost equipment. The use of HIL is important in the development of WECs also because it allows the carrying out of tests in a controlled environment, and this is again time- and money-saving if compared to tests done on a real system installed at the sea. Furthermore, W2W modeling can be applied to several Power Take-O_ (PTO) configurations to experiment di_erent control strategies. The method here proposed, concerning a specific HIL for testing power electronics and control laws for a specific WECs, may have a more general validity.
SN 1996-1073
YR 2020
FD 2020-05
LA eng
NO Delmonte , N , Robles , E , Cova , P , Giuliani , F , Faÿ , F X , Lopez , J , Ruol , P & Martinelli , L 2020 , ' An Iterative Refining Approach to Design the Control of Wave Energy Converters with Numerical Modeling and Scaled HIL Testing ' , Energies , vol. 13 , no. 10 , 2508 , pp. 2508 . https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102508
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
DS TECNALIA Publications
RD 29 sept 2024