A wave energy converter (WEC) utilizing one or more adjacent surface floats together forming a wide or broad beam float, with its port to starboard width substantially exceeding its fore to aft dimension. The broad-beam float being preoriented or self-orienting parallel to prevailing oncoming wave fronts. The float serving as the WEC's primary reaction body, the motion of which is constrained to being driven upward and rearward by oncoming wave crests and returning downward and forward on ensuing wave troughs. The float's upward and rearward motion capturing both heave and surge wave energy. The float wave induced motion being resisted by at least one forward power take-off (PTO) located between the float and a seabed attachment forward of the float's center of buoyancy, the seabed attachment serving as the WEC's forward second reaction body and at least one aft PTO located between a second aft seabed attachment or aft reaction body or suspended mass located under or aft of the float's center of buoyancy.
HIGH CAPTURE EFFICIENCY WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER WITH IMPROVED HEAVE, SURGE AND PITCH STABILITY
WELLENENERGIEWANDLER MIT HOHER ERFASSUNGSEFFIZIENZ UND VERBESSERTER LATERAL-, VERTIKAL- UND ROTATIONSSTABILITÄT
CONVERTISSEUR D'ÉNERGIE HOULOMOTRICE À HAUTE EFFICACITÉ DE CAPTURE AVEC STABILITÉ AMÉLIORÉE VIS-À-VIS DU PILONNEMENT, DU CAVALEMENT ET DU TANGAGE
10.01.2024
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
HIGH CAPTURE EFFICIENCY WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER WITH IMPROVED HEAVE, SURGE AND PITCH STABILITY
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