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Sediment transport. --- Tidal energy --- Tidal power plants --- Tidal energy --- Tidal power plants

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Wave energy offers a promising renewable energy source. This guide presents numerical modelling and optimisation methods for the development of wave energy converter technologies, from principles to applications. It covers oscillating water column technologies, theoretical wave power absorption, heaving point absorbers in single and multi-mode degrees of freedom, and the relatively hitherto unexplored topic of wave energy harvesting farms. It can be used as a specialist student textbook as well as a reference book for the design of wave energy harvesting systems, across a broad range of disciplines, including renewable energy, marine engineering, infrastructure engineering, hydrodynamics, ocean science, and mechatronics engineering. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/ has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Renewable energy sources. --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- heaving point absorber --- Marine energy --- oscillating water column --- Renewable energy --- tidal energy --- Wave energy harvesting --- WEC --- wave energy conversion --- wave power absorption --- wave power farms

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This book aims to perform an impartial analysis to evaluate the implications of the environmental costs and impacts of a wide range of technologies and energy strategies. This information is intended to be used to support decision-making by groups, including researchers, industry, regulators, and policy-makers. Life cycle assessment (LCA) and technoeconomic analysis can be applied to a wide variety of technologies and energy strategies, both established and emerging. LCA is a method used to evaluate the possible environmental impacts of a product, material, process, or activity. It assesses the environmental impact throughout the life cycle of a system, from the acquisition of materials to the manufacture, use, and final disposal of a product. Technoeconomic analysis refers to cost evaluations, including production cost and life cycle cost. Often, in order to carry out technoeconomic analysis, researchers are required to obtain data on the performance of new technologies that operate on a very small scale in order to subsequently design configurations on a commercial scale and estimate the costs of such expansions. The results of the developed models help identify possible market applications and provide an estimate of long-term impacts. These methods, together with other forms of decision analysis, are very useful in the development and improvement of energy objectives, since they will serve to compare different decisions, evaluating their political and economic feasibility and providing guidance on potential financial and technological risks.

History of engineering & technology --- ocean energy --- tidal energy converters --- offshore renewable energy --- life-cycle costs --- installation and maintenance maneuvers --- economic-financial viability --- ancillary ventilation --- effective zone --- CFDs --- mixture model --- building --- environmental costs --- green GDP, China --- uncertainty analysis --- sensitivity analysis --- thermal mass --- thermal inertia --- radiant cooling system --- energy conservation --- energy simulation --- energy modeling --- bottom-up models --- building archetype simulation --- unit energy consumption --- end-use forecasting --- diffusion rate --- street lighting system --- TCO --- EVR --- EVC --- eco-efficient value creation --- eco-costs --- bibliometrics --- review --- life cycle assessment (LCA) --- allocation --- system expansion --- end of life of PV --- cost of PV recycling --- photovoltaic waste --- FRELP --- electricity scenarios --- life cycle assessment --- Italian electricity --- environmental impacts --- grid mix --- California --- energy transition --- net energy analysis --- EROI --- photovoltaic --- energy storage --- lithium-ion battery --- hourly data --- ocean energy --- tidal energy converters --- offshore renewable energy --- life-cycle costs --- installation and maintenance maneuvers --- economic-financial viability --- ancillary ventilation --- effective zone --- CFDs --- mixture model --- building --- environmental costs --- green GDP, China --- uncertainty analysis --- sensitivity analysis --- thermal mass --- thermal inertia --- radiant cooling system --- energy conservation --- energy simulation --- energy modeling --- bottom-up models --- building archetype simulation --- unit energy consumption --- end-use forecasting --- diffusion rate --- street lighting system --- TCO --- EVR --- EVC --- eco-efficient value creation --- eco-costs --- bibliometrics --- review --- life cycle assessment (LCA) --- allocation --- system expansion --- end of life of PV --- cost of PV recycling --- photovoltaic waste --- FRELP --- electricity scenarios --- life cycle assessment --- Italian electricity --- environmental impacts --- grid mix --- California --- energy transition --- net energy analysis --- EROI --- photovoltaic --- energy storage --- lithium-ion battery --- hourly data

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Concerns relating to energy supply and climate change have driven renewable energy targets around the world. Marine renewable energy could make a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the consequences of climate change, while providing a high-technology industry. The conversion of wave and tidal energy into electricity has many advantages. Individual tidal and wave energy devices have been installed and proven, with commercial arrays planned throughout the world. The wave and tidal energy industry has developed rapidly in the past few years; therefore, it seems timely to review current research and map future challenges. Methods to improve understanding of the resource and interactions (between energy extraction, the resource and the environment) are considered, such as resource characterisation (including electricity output), design considerations (e.g., extreme and fatigue loadings) and environmental impacts, at all timescales (ranging from turbulence to decadal) and all spatial scales (from device and array scales to shelf sea scales).

Research & information: general --- tide-surge-wave model --- Taiwanese waters --- sea-state hindcast --- wave power --- wave energy --- unstructured grid model --- resource characterization --- WaveWatch III --- SWAN --- tidal energy --- experimental testing --- acoustic Doppler profiler --- Strangford Lough --- dc-dc bidirectional converter --- finite control set-model predictive control (FCS-MPC) --- oscillating water column (OWC) --- supercapacitor energy storage (SCES) --- wave climate variability --- wavelet analysis --- teleconnection patterns --- marine renewable energy --- ocean energy --- environmental effects --- wave modeling --- wave propagation --- numerical modeling --- sediment dynamics --- risk assessment --- marine current energy --- spiral involute blade --- hydrodynamic analysis --- numerical simulation --- wave energy trends --- reanalysis wave data --- Chilean coast --- renewable energy --- wave energy converters --- annual mean power production --- wave energy converter --- transmission coefficient --- absorption --- surfing amenity --- resource --- impact assessment --- feasibility study --- floating offshore wave farm --- WEC --- IRR --- LCOE --- marine energy --- unmanned ocean device --- multi-type floating bodies --- nonlinear Froude-Krylov force --- energy efficiency