A general comparison between various types of linear generators for wave energy conversion
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Trapanese, M.; Cipriani, G.; Corpora, M.; Di Dio, V.
- Source
- OCEANS 2017 - Anchorage OCEANS - Anchorage, 2017. :1-5 Sep, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Geoscience
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Permanent magnets
Oceans
Induction generators
Switches
Topology
Sustainable development
Linear machines
- Language
This paper presents a general comparison between various types of linear generators for wave energy conversion. According to the type of magnetic configuration they are distinguished as: linear asynchronous generators, linear generators with permanent magnets and linear reluctance generators. The paper shows their peculiarities and discusses their field of applications.