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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Please be advised that for 2/13 seminar on
wave energy, the room is changed from 1 390 to 3- 133. Thanks </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Chiang C. Mei,<BR>Room 1-346, MIT<BR>Tel 617-253 2994</DIV>
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<A title=kgibson@MIT.EDU href="mailto:kgibson@MIT.EDU">Karen Gibson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=environmental-seminars@mit.edu
href="mailto:environmental-seminars@mit.edu">environmental-seminars@mit.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=mtangney@mit.edu
href="mailto:mtangney@mit.edu">Marie Tangney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:01
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Lectures in wave energy</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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color=#000000>Lecture series on Wave Energy</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt 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: 10pt 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>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Institute of Advanced Technologies </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
University of Lisbon, Portugal</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Time: 4:30 to 5:30 pm<BR></B></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> February
11 (M), Room (1 390) </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">February 13
(W) , Room 3 133</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and Feb 15
(F), </SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Room 1-390</SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hosted by
Professor Chiang C. Mei</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt 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: 10pt 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>
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lang=EN-GB
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lang=EN-GB
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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>
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size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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Feb 13: Operational experience with
the 400 kW OWC power plant in the<SPAN
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w:st="on">Pico</ST1:PLACENAME>,<SPAN
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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
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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>
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