Tidal Energy Systems: Design, Optimization and Control

Tidal Energy Systems provides a comprehensive overview of concepts, technologies, management, and control of tidal energy systems and tidal power plants.

It presents the fundamentals of tidal energy, including structure of tidal currents and turbulence. Technology, principles and components of tidal power plants, as well as operation and performance assessment of each component, are also covered. The book then explores pre-feasibility analysis methods, considering variables like climatic conditions, resource availability, and load demand. Aspects plant operation, maintenance and power generation are discussed, encompassing automatic control and control strategies such as reactive power control. The book examines reliability assessment in terms of failure distribution, constant failure rate, time dependent failure model. It also presents a chronological multiple state probability model of tidal power generation system (TPGS) considering both forced outage rate (FOR) and random nature of tidal current speed. Finally, the most recent research advances and future trends are reviewed, with the inclusion of real life examples worldwide and a case study of India’s tidal energy scenario. Policy aspects are considered, as well as economic analysis including capital cost, replacement cost, and operation and maintenance cost of complete tidal power plant.

Tidal Energy Systems provides ocean energy researchers, practitioners and graduate students with all the information needed for design, deployment, management and operation of tidal energy systems up to actual tidal power plants. Senior undergraduate students will also find in this book a useful resource on the fundamentals of tidal energy systems and their components.

Presents the fundamentals of tidal energy, including system components, pre-feasibility analysis, and plant management, operations and controlExplores concepts of sustainability and reliability analysis of tidal energy systems, as well as their economic aspects and future trendsCovers the assessment of tidal energy systems by optimization technique and game theory

1. Fundamentals of Energy 2. Fundamentals of Tidal Energy 3. Prefeasibility Analysis of Tidal Energy Systems 4. Optimum Sizing and Modeling of Tidal Energy Systems 5. Control Systems of Tidal Power Plant 6. Reliability Assessment of Tidal Power Plant 7. Advances in Tidal Energy Systems