MBD Energizes Wave Farm

摘要

When you're designing something as groundbreaking and massive as the world's first and only operating wave farm, building a physical prototype is out of the question for a whole multitude of reasons, not the least of which is cost and scale. That's the situation Carnegie Wave Energy faced during the design of CETO 5, technology that generates power from ocean swells using submerged buoys. CETO 5 is a cornerstone of the Perth Wave Energy Project (PWEP), which is currently the world's only operating grid-connected wave energy array. CETO 5 is a multidisci-plinary system, converting hydrody-namic forces from the ocean to mechanical energy by the motion of the buoy, then to hydraulic energy through use of a pump, and finally to electrical energy using hydroelectric conversion devices.