A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based wave energy plants - Experimental validation and scaling

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 307-314

  Mala, K ^a   Jayaraj, J ^a   Jayashankar, V ^a   Muruganandam, T M ^a   Santhakumar, S ^a   Ravindran, M ^a   Takao, M ^b   Setoguchi, T ^c   Toyota, K ^c   Nagata, S ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b MATSUE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Impulse turbine; OWC; Twin turbine topology

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS; DESIGN FEATURES; ENERGY CAPTURE; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIXED GUIDE VANES; FLOW COEFFICIENTS; GRID-CONNECTED; GUIDE VANE; IMPULSE TURBINES; INDUCTION MACHINES; MOVING PARTS; OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN; OSCILLATORY FLOWS; OWC; SCALE MODELS; TWIN TURBINE TOPOLOGY; WAVE ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; TOPOLOGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER;

HYDRAULIC TURBINES;

DESIGN METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL TEST; OSCILLATING FLOW; POWER PLANT; TOPOLOGY; TURBINE; WATER COLUMN; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 79751472028     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.06.043     Document Type: Article

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