Dynamic mooring system for water wave energy convertors
OwnerNishanto Nahid Pishoninventor
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Abstract
A dynamic adaptive mooring system for wave energy converters (WEC) is disclosed that has a mooring configuration that has a set of fixed mooring lines, and a set of movable mooring lines. When an incoming wave train interacts with the fixed WECs, a set of wave interference points that have higher wave amplitudes than the incoming wave train are formed downstream of the fixed WECs. The movable WECs are then positioned at the interface points to optimize wave energy transfer.
Claims18
1) A dynamic and adaptive mooring system for wave energy converters (WEC), comprising:
- a) a mooring configuration, anchored to a seafloor, having a set of fixed mooring lines, and a set of movable mooring lines;
- b) a set of fixed WECs held by the set of fixed mooring lines;
- c) a set of movable WECs held on the set of movable mooring lines;
- d) a plurality of sensors to collect a set of data related to a set of wave characteristics of a set of incident waves approaching the set of fixed WECs;
- e) a moving mechanism to move the set of movable WECs;
- f) a processing station having an optimization algorithm installed to receive the set of data and to determine a location within the mooring configuration that has a highest wave potential energy, and to control the movement of the moving mechanism, and
- g) a feedback loop between the plurality of sensors and the processing station to adjust and finetune the location of the set of movable WECs to optimize the energy transfer from the ocean waves.
14) An array of wave energy converters (WECs), floating on a surface of a water and subjected to a wave pattern, to maximize the wave energy harvesting delivered to the array of WECs, comprising:
- a) a first line of WECs interconnected to one another by a first mooring line;
- b) a second line of WECs interconnected to one another by a second mooring line, wherein the second line is downstream of the first mooring line and wherein the second line is movable with respect to the first mooring line;
- c) a position control system to move the second mooring line;
- d) a plurality of sensors to collect data from the wave pattern;
- e) a processing station to read the collected data, determine a set of locations for the constructive wave interference and to move the second line of WECs to said locations;
- whereby high packing density array of WEC is provided.
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