TY - JOUR ID - 72796 TI - Experimental Evaluation of IRWEC1, a Novel Offshore Wave Energy Converter JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Bayani, Rasoul AU - Farhadi, Mousa AU - Shafaghat, Rouzbeh AU - Alamian, Rezvan AD - Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology AD - Mechanical engineering, Babol Noshiravani University of Technology Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 29 IS - 9 SP - 1292 EP - 1299 KW - Power take KW - off system KW - Point absorber KW - Wave energy converters (WEC) KW - wave energy KW - Caspian Sea KW - Experimental test DO - N2 - This paper describes the innovative offshore point-absorber wave energy converter (WEC), IRWEC1, under development by the Hydrodynamics, Acoustics and Marine propulsion Group at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology. Totally enclosed in an outer shell, with no external moving parts, IRWEC1 is completely sealed which make it a robust and trustable system. Important motion for this WEC is the pitch motion, so, a pendulum is designed for transferring this motion to the PTO. In this paper, the WEC is evaluated for a wide range of waves in the wave tank. The wave characteristics are presented by which the system had appropriate pitch motion and acceptable extracted electrical energy. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_72796.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_72796_6ea7ea34b69ce7b535ef30757a190c69.pdf ER -