Mejora de la Potencia Obtenida en Plantas de Generación Undimotriz basadas en Columna de Agua Oscilante

Wave energy power plants, particularly Oscillating Water Column devices, become a feasible alternative to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels and slow down the growing problem of the global warming. Thus, new control schemes can play an important role, providing performance improvements to compete from a commercial point of view with the other traditional energy sources. In this sense, this paper proposes a new control technique based on the maximum power point tracking, by establishing the optimal values of the flow and torque coefficients that allow the maximum power generation at each moment. The proposed control scheme has been implemented on a complete wave-To-wire model in order to demonstrate both the goodness and the viability of the proposed method.