Enhancing the Performance of the Marine and Tidal Current Converters Using DC-DC Boost Converter | ||||
| The International Conference on Electrical Engineering | ||||
| Article 42, Volume 7, 7th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2010, May 2010, Page 1-10 PDF (237.05 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/iceeng.2010.32995 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Salah M. Kamel1; Emad M. Ahmed2; Masahito Shoyama2; Noriyuki Hayashi2 | ||||
| 1Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Due to highly demand on the renewable energy sources as a free and a clean power resource, extracting energy from unsteady flow using marine and tidal current turbines has a special focusing nowadays. For their resource characteristic, extracting energy from them needs more simple and robust converter in order to avoid the drawbacks of the mechanical system such as gearbox and makes the marine/tidal current energy more reliable. The required AC-DC-AC conversion system equipped with DC-DC boost converter has been designed. To investigate the efficient performance of that conversion system especially at low current speed, different operating conditions were studied; the system was tested with/without boost converter at different current speeds operation. Moreover, the effect of including boost converter on the total harmonic distortion THD is checked. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| renewable energy; Marine and tidal current converter; DC-DC boost converter | ||||
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