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Connection technology of HPTO type WECs and DC nano grid in island

China Ocean Engineering volume 30, pages 581–590 (2016)Cite this article

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Wave energy fluctuating a great deal endangers the security of power grid especially micro grid in island. A DC nano grid supported by batteries is proposed to smooth the output power of wave energy converters (WECs). Thus, renewable energy converters connected to DC grid is a new subject. The characteristics of WECs are very important to the connection technology of HPTO type WECs and DC nano grid. Hydraulic power take-off system (HPTO) is the core unit of the largest category of WECs, with the functions of supplying suitable damping for a WEC to absorb wave energy, and converting captured wave energy to electricity. The HPTO is divided into a hydraulic energy storage system (HESS) and a hydraulic power generation system (HPGS). A primary numerical model for the HPGS is established in this paper. Three important basic characteristics of the HPGS are deduced, which reveal how the generator load determines the HPGS rotation rate. Therefore, the connector of HPTO type WEC and DC nano grid would be an uncontrollable rectifier with high reliability, also would be a controllable power converter with high efficiency, such as interleaved boost converter-IBC. The research shows that it is very flexible to connect to DC nano grid for WECs, but bypass resistance loads are indispensable for the security of WECs.

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  1. College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Kun-lin Wang  (王坤林), Lian-fang Tian  (田联房) & Xiao-hong Wang  (王孝洪)

  2. Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Kun-lin Wang  (王坤林), Ya-ge You  (游亚戈), Song-wei Sheng  (盛松伟), Ya-qun Zhang  (张亚群) & Yin Ye  (叶 寅)

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This research was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2015A030313717), the Chinese Ocean Renewable Energy Special Fund (Grant Nos. GHME2013ZB01, GHME2013GC01, and GHME2010GC01), and Renewable Energy Key Laboratory 2013 Annual Fund of the Academy of Sciences of China (Grant No. y407j71001).

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Wang, Kl., Tian, Lf., You, Yg. et al. Connection technology of HPTO type WECs and DC nano grid in island. China Ocean Eng 30, 581–590 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-016-0036-4

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Key words

  • wave energy converter
  • hydraulic power take-off
  • hydraulic power generation system
  • interleaved boost converter
  • nano grid