BioWAVE (Flocard and Finnigan, 2009) was jointly developed by BioPower Systems of Australia and Siemens of Germany in 2009, is able to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy in situ through a separate O-Drive module and then transmit the power to the shore by submarine cable, which greatly improving the site selection flexibility. BioWAVE's pendulum adopts a multi-blade structure and can rotate to the direction of incoming wave around the vertical axis at the center of the base, thus improving the energy capture performance.

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LITERATURE CITED

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Flocard, F. and Finnigan, T.D., 2009. Experimental investigation of power capture from pitching point absorbers. Proceedings of the Eight (8th) European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (Upsalla, Sweden), pp. 400–409. Google Scholar
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"BioWAVE," Journal of Coastal Research 97(sp1), (4 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.2112/0749-0208-97.sp1.i
Published: 4 December 2019
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