The SSG wave energy converter: Performance, status and recent developments

Energies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 193-226

  Vicinanza, Diego ^a,b   Margheritini, Lucia ^b   Kofoed, Jens Peter ^b   Buccino, Mariano ^c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Model tests; Overtopping; SSG; Wave energy converter

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATERS; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; HYDROELECTRIC GENERATORS; PORTS AND HARBORS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); TURBINES; WATER WAVES;

ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; MODEL TESTS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; OVERTOPPING; PHYSICAL MODEL TEST; RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84857719587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en5020193     Document Type: Review

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