2009
MAS 2009 Proceeding
Simulation of the emersion procedure for a new underwater generator
Authors: Amable López Piñeiro, José Andrés Somolinos, Luis Ramón Núñez Rivas and Eva María Novoa Rojas
Abstract
During the last years, a great amount of electrical underwater generator designs have been proposed for exploiting the sea energy resources. Multidisciplinary engineering is needed to conceive, to design and to construct any of these devices and a large amount of concepts have to be taken into account when an underwater generator is designed. SOERMAR and the Technical University of Madrid are developing a new concept for marine current energy use The GESMEY project, whose main goals and conceptual design are briefly described. It is based on a Y structure with additional elements which can handle its own floatability by controlling the amount of water ballast inside these elements. This paper analyses one of the methods proposed to move the generator from the operation depth to the sea surface in order to prepare it for the maintenance position in a controlled way. The obtained simulated results of the emersion procedure are presented in this paper.
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