Waves, energy

As a renewable energy source, wave power is an untapped source which could help alleviate the rising cost of energy and its continued development must be encouraged. 

As mentioned earlier, there is no macroscopic transfer of matter accompanying a wave. This, however, does not mean that there is no energy transfer with wave propagation. On the contrary, forcing every particle to oscillate, a wave carries that energy which is 

Wis the total energy of all particles in the volume AV,N and m are their number and mass, respectively, and p is the media density. To estimate the value, we can proceed from expression (2.2.4)  

Find the wave energy flux O, i.e., the energy carried by a wave through the area S perpendicular to wave propagation. So it is defined as a scalar flux averaged upon the area S. It can, however, be different both at different points of the area and in different directions. In order to characterize the energy flux locally the value of the flux density j is introduced  

Attribute to the scalar value dS a vector character by multiplying dS by the normal unit vector  

Expression (2.8.21) is the particular case of the vector flux calculations through the surface. It can also be used in evaluation of liquid mass consumption in pipes, electrostatic and magnetic strength vectors, etc. (refer to Chapters 4 and 5). 

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In these cases the wave energy is reflected back to the testing surface. 

The quanta of the elastic wave energy are called phonons The themral average number of phonons in an elastic wave of frequency or is given, just as in the case of photons, by... 

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The extent to which each technology is poised to advance is described in separate discussions of photovoltaics, solar-thermal power, and wind, biomass, waste-to-energy, geothermal, hydropower, and wave energy. 

The wodd s total capacity of grid-coimected electric power derived from wave energy is less than half a megawatt, distributed among several demonstration plants. The largest unit, the 350-kWe Tapered Channel plant in Norway, uses the hydropower approach. The plant was developed by Norwave AS and has operated continuously since 1986. Based on this durabiUty, two commercial orders were placed from other parts of the wodd. 

In the United States, other experimental wave-energy systems have been investigated in California and Hawaii, including a 30-MWe heaving-buoy... 

The energy partition between blast wave energy and fragment kinetic energy is as described in paragraph I. 

Symbolic representation of various types of wave energy devices. 

Wave size is determined by wind speed and fetch, the distance over the oceans surface which the wind travels. Favorable wind energy sites are generally western coastlines facing the open ocean such as the Pacific Coast of North America and the Atlantic Coast of Northern Europe. Norway, Denmark, Japan, and the United Kingdom are the world leaders in wave energy technologies. 

Curran R. Stewart, T. P. and Whittaker T. J. T. (1997). Design Synthesis of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters Performance Matching. Journal of Power and Energy 211 4S j-505. 

The process by which heat is emitted from a body and transmitted across space as energy is called radiation. Heat radiation is a form of wave energy in space similar to radio and light waves. Radiation does not require any intermediate medium such as air for its transfer. It can readily take place across a vacuum. 

Prahlad et al. have described the configuration of dielectric elastomer generators for conversion of wind or wave energy to produce localized electrical power and also suggested the relevance of this work to rural or other remote areas to fulfill their power requirement where existence of a rehable and centralized power stiU remained a distant possibility. 

Table 3. Wave energies and widths of autoionizing states. a — b) means a 10 ...

The latest extension in this context is the Discover CoolMate (Fig. 3.26), a microwave system for performing sub-ambient temperature chemistry. The reactor is equipped with a jacketed low-temperature vessel, and the system s microwave-transparent cooling medium and chilling technology keep the bulk temperature low (-80 to +35 °C). Thus, thermal degradation of compounds is prevented while micro-wave energy is introduced to the reaction mixture. 

In the cracking of benzene to acetylene over alumina- and silica-supported nickel catalysts it was observed that the selectivity of the reaction, expressed as the ethyne/ ethene ratio, was dramatically affected (from 1 9 to 9 1) by controlling the micro-wave energy input (i. e. 90% selectivity) [83]. 

Norway built a wave energy station on the coast near Bergen in 1985. It combined an OWC with a Norwegian device called aTapchan (TAPered CHANnel). The waves move up a concrete slope where they fill a reservoir. As the water flows back to the ocean, it drives a turbine generator. 

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