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Chamber pressure skewness corrections using a passive relief valve system at the pico oscillating water column wave energy plant

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  • Monk, Kieran
  • Winands, Victor
  • Lopes, Miguel

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Power production levels at the Pico plant fall significantly short of pre-project estimates. Poor turbine performance compared to expectations from scale model testing accounts for much of this shortfall. Unanticipated chamber pressure skewness is also found to contribute to the deficit. This skewness manifests from wave shoaling because of the shallow chamber water depth from boulder collection and is worsened by intermittent chamber pressure losses caused by chamber wall defects. A passive non-return by-pass relief valve system for partially counteracting chamber pressure skewness is investigated. This functions by venting more of the unconvertible pneumatic over-power during the more intense but shorter duration exhalation half-wave cycles. At the same time, it retains more of the convertible pneumatic under-power in the weaker but longer duration inhalation half-wave cycles. This method reduces the degree of pressure skewness, which improves the system performance in higher energy excitation conditions. The passive relief valve specifications are optimised with a time-domain wave to wire model which is also used to project the expected plant performance enhancement in a range of wave conditions. Simulation results are compared to limited field tests results using a simple prototype passive valve system and good agreement is found.

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  • Monk, Kieran & Winands, Victor & Lopes, Miguel, 2018. "Chamber pressure skewness corrections using a passive relief valve system at the pico oscillating water column wave energy plant," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 128(PA), pages 230-240.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:128:y:2018:i:pa:p:230-240
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.04.037
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    1. Faÿ, François-Xavier & Robles, Eider & Marcos, Marga & Aldaiturriaga, Endika & Camacho, Eduardo F., 2020. "Sea trial results of a predictive algorithm at the Mutriku Wave power plant and controllers assessment based on a detailed plant model," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 1725-1745.
    2. Faÿ, François-Xavier & Henriques, João C. & Kelly, James & Mueller, Markus & Abusara, Moahammad & Sheng, Wanan & Marcos, Marga, 2020. "Comparative assessment of control strategies for the biradial turbine in the Mutriku OWC plant," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 2766-2784.
    3. Rosati, Marco & Ringwood, John V., 2023. "Control co-design of power take-off and bypass valve for OWC-based wave energy conversion systems," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 219(P2).

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