Wave Energy Convertors in Tropical Seas: Large Floating Structures and Power Enhancement [Hardcover]

1. How can we make WECs Feasible in Tropical Climates? 2. Environmental Loads 3. Principles of WEC Arrays 4. Hydroelasticity of VLFS and Integration with WEC 5. Integration of WECs with Floating Breakwater 6. Power Enhancement of WEC Arrays Via Sloshing Resonance and Wave Runup 7. Optimisation Scheme for Power Enhancement of WEC 8. Offshore Floating Solar Photovoltaic Farm

The combination of presented case studies, discussion of the challenges of tropical seas, and design optimization parameters make this book invaluable to researchers and industry players working on the concepts of power enhancement and integrated WECs on floating structures.

Zhi Yung Tay is an Associate Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh and a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS).? Dr Tay also held a Senior Research Engineer position at Keppel Offshore and Marine Technology Centre. He received his Ph.D. from NUS in 2009.

Tay provides a comprehensive description of the state of the art for recent conceptual designs on the integration of wave energy convertor (WEC) systems with floating structures in tropical seas, discusses the unique environmental challenges, and provides a guide for readers to develop WECs that are optimised for both wave patterns and the structures to which they are attached.

Through this book, readers will gain a deep understanding of the unique environmental characteristics of tropical climates, discover how WECs can be integrated into various floating structures, and learn how WECs can be adapted and optimised for use in tropical climates. This book also focuses on the hydroelasticity of large floating structures and how the structural deformation under wave action affects the energy generation of the WEC. Tay prl“#