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The authors have invented the unique ocean wave power station, which is composed of the floating type platform with a pair of the floats lining up at the interval of one wave pitch and the counter-rotating type wave power unit, its runners are submerged in the seawater at the middle position of the platform. Such profiles make the flow velocity at the runner is twice faster than that of the traditional fixed/caisson type OWC, on the ideal flow conditions. Besides, the runners counter-rotate the inner and the outer armatures of the peculiar generator, respectively, and the relative rotational speed is also twice faster than the speed of the single runner/armature. Such characteristics make the runner diameter large, namely the output higher, as requested, because the torque of the power unit never act on the floating type platform. At the preliminary reseach, this paper verifies to get the power using a Wells type single runner installed in the model station. The runner takes the output which is affected by the oscillating amplitude of the platform, the rotational speed and the inertia force of the runner, etc.
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Some parts of this research were in collaboration with Professors Toshiaki Setoguchi and Shuichi Nagata from Institute of Ocean Energy, Saga University.
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Okamoto, S., Kanemoto, T. & Umekage, T. Floating type ocean wave power station equipped with hydroelectric unit. J. Therm. Sci. 22, 467–471 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-013-0649-3
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