[E&E seminars] Lectures in wave energy

[Chiang C. Mei]

Please be advised that   for 2/13 seminar on wave energy, the room is changed from 1 390 to 3- 133. Thanks 
Chiang C. Mei,
Room 1-346, MIT
Tel 617-253 2994
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    Lecture series on Wave Energy

    SPEAKER: Prof. Antonio Sarmento
        Director, Center for Wave Energy Research
        Institute of Advanced Technologies 
        University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Time: 4:30 to 5:30 pm

    Date : 
     February 11 (M), Room (1 390) 
    February 13 (W) , Room 3 133
    and Feb 15 (F),  Room 1-390




    Hosted by Professor Chiang C. Mei
    Civil & Environmetal Engineering
    ccmei at mit.edu




                Feb 11: Wave energy: from demonstration to commercialization
    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.

                Feb 13: Operational experience with the 400 kW OWC power plant in the island of Pico, Azores
    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.

    Feb 15: Design considerations of heaving axissimetric wave energy converters

    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.








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