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- Title
Air pressure forecasting for the Mutriku oscillating‐water‐column wave power plant: Review and case study.
- Authors
Marques Silva, Jorge; Vieira, Susana M.; Valério, Duarte; Henriques, João C. C.; Sclavounos, Paul D.
- Abstract
The high variability and unpredictability of renewable energy resources require optimization of the energy extraction, by operating at the best efficiency point, which can be achieved through optimal control strategies. In particular, wave forecasting models can be valuable for control strategies in wave energy converter devices. This work intends to exploit the short‐term wave forecasting potential on an oscillating water column equipped with the innovative biradial turbine. A Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LS‐SVM) algorithm was developed to predict the air chamber pressure and compare it to the real signal. Regressive linear algorithms were executed for reference. The experimental data was obtained at the Mutriku wave power plant in the Basque Country, Spain. Results have shown LS‐SVM prediction errors varying from 9% to 25%, for horizons ranging from 1 to 3 s in the future. There is no need for extensive training data sets for which computational effort is higher. However, best results were obtained for models with a relatively small number of LS‐SVM features. Regressive models have shown slightly better performance (8–22%) at a significantly lower computational cost. Ultimately, these research findings may play an essential role in model predictive control strategies for the wave power plant.
- Subjects
SUPPORT vector machines; WAVE energy; ENERGY conversion; CONVERTERS (Electronics); POWER plants
- Publication
IET Renewable Power Generation (Wiley-Blackwell), 2021, Vol 15, Issue 14, p3485
- ISSN
1752-1416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1049/rpg2.12289