<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><font color="#000000">Lecture series on Wave Energy</font></span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">SPEAKER: Prof. Antonio Sarmento</span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> Director, Center for Wave Energy Research</span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> Institute of Advanced Technologies </span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> University of Lisbon, Portugal</span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b><br></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Date/Time: February 11, 13, and 15 (MWF), 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm</span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Location: Room 1-390</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Hosted by Professor Chiang C. Mei</span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Civil & Environmetal Engineering</span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><a href="mailto:ccmei@mit.edu">ccmei@mit.edu</a></span></font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></font> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> Feb 11: Wave energy: from demonstration to commercialization<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial; ">Wave energy is now at the phase of demonstration of pilot plants and prototypes at the sea. However a significant number of actions need to be taken to go from here to full commercialization. The talk will describe the state-of-the-art of the technology and main players and will present the challenges, risks and barriers to be overcome before commercialization is attained. Public policies being set-up in different European state-members to support this development will also be addressed. Special emphasis will be given to the economics of wave energy and its financing, in particular through the feed-in tariff.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: navy; "><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> Feb 13: Operational experience with the 400 kW OWC power plant in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Pico</st1:placename>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Azores</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial; ">Built in 1999 the Pico plant suffered from typical early stage technology problems which resulted in its almost abandon before its refurbishment between 2004 and 2006. The talk will describe the technological problems and solutions to these and will present operational data related to energy production, flow rate and pressure drop across turbine, stability of energy supply to the grid, etc.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial; "><b>Feb 15</b><strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Design considerations of heaving axissimetric wave energy converters<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; "><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial; ">There is presently a number of heaving axissimetric wave energy converters (WECs) being developed by different companies due to their relative compactness. The working principle of these WECs is relatively simple and can be well understood under linear wave theory. The talk will review briefly the main theoretical results and will discuss how these theoretical results may be used to improve the design of these WECs in order to widen their frequency response, increase their rated power and facilitate their engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br></div></body></html>