Fem Based Analysis of Advanced Linear Generators for Wave Power Plants

Ocean energy technologies have been around for decades. But for a variety of reasons, including rising oil prices, technological advancements and the sheer grit of a handful of pioneer developers, ocean energy has made a huge splash only in the last years. The specialists working in this field concluded that generation of electricity from wave energy may be economically feasible in the near future and as such, warrants continued investigation. Hence any new contribution in this field should be of real interest. In this paper a new variant of the tubular permanent magnet linear generator to be used in wave power take-off converters will be presented. Its performances will be analysed by means of advanced finite elements method based field computations.