The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal

2015, 9 : 67-73
Published online 2015 March 16. DOI: 10.2174/1874129001509010067
Publisher ID: TOEEJ-9-67

Optimization of a Multi-pendulum Wave Energy Converter

Jun Zhang , Chenglong Li , Hongzhou He and Xiaogang Zang
No. 9 Shigu Road, Jimei District, Xiamen, 361021, China.

ABSTRACT

In order to improve the energy capture efficiency of a multi-pendulum wave energy converter, a mathematical model of the pendulum structure has been built. The final structure parameters of the pendulum have been obtained by using genetic algorithm based on the numerical simulation results of the pendulum structure optimization. The results show that under obtained structure parameters the proposed multi-pendulum device can obtain maximum energy conversion efficiency.

Keywords:

Genetic algorithm, multi-pendulum, structure optimization, wave power generation.