DEVICE FOR EXPLOITING THE WAVE ENERGY OF SURFACE WATER AND A WAVE POWER STATION WHICH CONTAINS AT LEAST ONE SUCH DEVICE

摘要

The device described contains at least one swinging lever (4) provided with a floating body (5) and articulated so as to be able to swing in the vertical plane on a main body (3) anchored in the water and, if desired, floating. Between each swinging lever (4) and the main body (3) is a piston/cylinder arrangement (6) to supply a pressure medium preferably directly into a pressure accumulator. The compressed pressure medium is decompressed in a turbine or in a hydraulic engine and the drive shaft of said turbine or engine is connected to a generator to produce electricity. It is proposed that at least on each floating body (5) at least one additional flow energy converter (7) is provided by which also the inherent flow energy of the water located in the wave passage is constantly extracted. Preferably several such devices can be linked with an on-shore power station by means of power and control cables, and economically and reliably operating wave power stations can thus be set up.