Microsoft Word Report 11 02 Wave Power final ex appendix doc

ELFORSK
Wave Plane
The Danish WavePlane is an overtop-
ping device. 
The V-shaped artificial beach is desig-
ned to slow the bottom of the wave 
down and thus making them break and 
overtop into the device reservoir.
The device was built in full scale and 
deployed off the Danish west coast in 
February 2009. 
Soon after the installation the mooring 
lines broke and the device was flushed 
up on the beach.
The status of the WavePlane concept at 
the moment is unclear to the author.
Wave Star Energy
The Danish Wavestar is a multi point 
absorber with a hydraulic PTO above 
the water surface. 
The platform is standing on the seabed 
and provides the reference for the buoys 
to react against.
In cases of harsh conditions the plat-
form will be raised out of the water to 
protect the buoys and the machinery. 
In September 2009 a section of a 1:2 
scale machine including two buoys was 
deployed in Hanstholm, Denmark. 
The only thing different between the 
machine in Hanstholm and a 1:2 scale 
machine is the length of the section 
and the number of buoys.
Floating Power Plant
The Floating Power Plant is a hybrid 
wind and wave energy converter. 
The wave energy part of the system 
consists of floats that pumps pressurised 
water to a water turbine.
The wind energy part of the system 
consists of standard wind turbines.
The Poseidon 37, the company’s scale 
prototype has been tested in two sepa-
rate trials. This prototype is 37 m wide, 
25 m long, and 6 m high to 
deck. A full-scale floating power 
plant will be significantly larger.
In the second sea trial was three 
11 kW wind turbines included. 
The Danish research institute at 
Risø has confirmed the platform 
stability for mounting of wind 
turbines.
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