Ocean Wave Power Station will be presented at ‘Our Ocean Challenge’ demo day, a part of ‘Aerospace meets Maritime’ event in Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
Ocean Wave Power Station (OWPS) consists of two large vessels that support a framework with floating standard 45 foot (13.72 m) container-sized pontoons. Continuous swell waves move the pontoons that activate wing pumps.
Using 5 bar low pressure, the pumps circulate a closed fresh water circuit up to 50 meters high pressure-equalizing reservoirs. The water drops down from the reservoirs to create waterfalls that generate continuous kinetic hydro-electricity.
The electricity can be cabled to land or stored using ethanol or battery.
Maximum wave energy can be harvested in the Northern and Southern world oceans, where wave power is above 60 kW/m.
For maintenance the pontoons can be lifted out of the sea and the framework can be disconnected from the vessels to dock.
The vessels enable the OWPS to freely turn in the direction of the waves.
Alternatively the vessels can be replaced by other floating entities or, in shallow seas, by rocks or concrete pillars, allowing larger or smaller fixed pontoon formations.
A single OWPS can generate maximum of 75 MW of power, and 25 MW on average – enough to power 30.000 households.
Demo Day of Our Oceans Challenge is taking place today, May 28, 2015.
Ocean Wave Power Station has been developed by Kristinsson, a Dutch-based architecture and engineering company.
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Image: Kristinsson