A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based
wave energy plants
V.
Jayashankar a,*, S.
Anand a
, T.
Geetha a
, S.
Santhakumar b
, V.
Jagadeesh Kumar a
,
M.
Ravindran c
, T.
Setoguchi d
, M.
Takao e
, K.
Toyota f
, S.
Nagata f
a...
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A twin unidirectional impulse turbine topology for OWC based
wave energy plants
V.
Jayashankar a,*, S.
Anand a
, T.
Geetha a
, S.
Santhakumar b
, V.
Jagadeesh Kumar a
,
M.
Ravindran c
, T.
Setoguchi d
, M.
Takao e
, K.
Toyota f
, S.
Nagata f
a
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
b
Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, India
c
Advisor RUTAG, IIT Madras, India
d
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University, Japan
e
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Matsue National College, Japan
f
IOES, Saga University, Japan
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 14 October 2007
Accepted 2 May 2008
Available online 2 July 2008
Keywords:
Wave energy
OWC
Impulse turbine
Time domain
Frequency domain
Wave to wire model
a b s t r a c t
Experimental results from near shore bottom standing OWC based wave energy plants in Japan and India
have now been available for about a decade.
Historically the weakest link in the conversion efficiency of
OWC bas
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