Emulation and power conditioning of outputs from a direct drive wave energy converter

2008 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1129-1133

  Nie, Zanxiang ^a   Clifton, Peter C J ^a   Wu, Yunxiang ^a   McMahon, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; WAVE POWER;

CONTROL SCHEMES; DIRECT DRIVE WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; H BRIDGES; POWER CONDITIONING; TWO PHASE; WAVE ENERGIES; WAVE FORMS;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 62949207265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSET.2008.4747176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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