TY - JOUR
T1 - Simple Resonance Circuit to Improve Electrical Power Conversion in a Two-Sided Planar Permanent Magnet Linear Generator for Wave Energy Converters
AU - Saeed, Omsalama
AU - Wahyudie, Addy
AU - Susilo, Tri Bagus
AU - Shareef, Hussain
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by UAE-U through the Center-based under Grant 31R097 and Grant 31R103.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2017/9/13
Y1 - 2017/9/13
N2 - Developing simple, economic, and efficient electrical power conversion systems for wave energy converters (WECs) is an on-going research topic. This paper considers a simple resonance circuit to maximise the ac-dc power conversion of a permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG). To implement this circuit, the PMLG model parameters were obtained. In this paper, we developed a procedure for designing a two-sided planar PMLG considering the corresponding physical parameters. For this method, we set the basic parameters and calculated the derived parameters for the PMLG. The resonance circuit was composed of a three-phase rectifier with a shunt connection of capacitors between its diodes. The value of the capacitors was calculated using the resonance principle at a specific dominant frequency obtained from the location of the WEC installation. We compared the performance of the proposed resonance circuit with that of an existing resonance circuit. The proposed circuit generates more power, requires fewer components, and presents fewer harmonics. In addition, a higher-quality damping force was obtained when using the PMLG connected to the proposed resonance circuit and a resistive load.
AB - Developing simple, economic, and efficient electrical power conversion systems for wave energy converters (WECs) is an on-going research topic. This paper considers a simple resonance circuit to maximise the ac-dc power conversion of a permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG). To implement this circuit, the PMLG model parameters were obtained. In this paper, we developed a procedure for designing a two-sided planar PMLG considering the corresponding physical parameters. For this method, we set the basic parameters and calculated the derived parameters for the PMLG. The resonance circuit was composed of a three-phase rectifier with a shunt connection of capacitors between its diodes. The value of the capacitors was calculated using the resonance principle at a specific dominant frequency obtained from the location of the WEC installation. We compared the performance of the proposed resonance circuit with that of an existing resonance circuit. The proposed circuit generates more power, requires fewer components, and presents fewer harmonics. In addition, a higher-quality damping force was obtained when using the PMLG connected to the proposed resonance circuit and a resistive load.
KW - Resonance circuit
KW - electrical power conversion
KW - marine energy
KW - permanent magnet linear generator
KW - wave energy converter
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2752466
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2752466
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030234638
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 5
SP - 18654
EP - 18664
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 8037983
ER -