Development of a wave energy converter using a two chamber oscillating water column

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 482-497

  Hsieh, Min Fu ^a   Lin, I Hsien ^a   Dorrell, D G ^b   Hsieh, Ming June ^a   Lin, Chi Chien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marine energy; oscillating water column; savonius rotor; wave energy

Indexed keywords

MARINE ENERGY; MECHANICAL SHAFTS; OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN; PERMANENT MAGNET GENERATOR; SAVONIUS ROTOR; SAVONIUS TURBINE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE POWER; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TURBINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84883248253     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2012.2190769     Document Type: Article

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