TY - JOUR
TI - Tidal range technologies and state of the art in review
AU - Waters, S
AU - Aggidis, G
T2 - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
AB - Tidal range technology has seen much development and interest in recent years. The times when a barrage scheme would be rejected due to environmental and cost concerns is coming to an end. A large variety of new lower cost and less invasive methods have since emerged in the forms of tidal lagoons, reefs and fences. Since the construction of La Rance in 1967, advancements in turbine technologies and design has since resulted in a plethora of new, exciting turbine designs for tidal energy. A selection of new turbines with possible tidal range applications includes the modified bulb turbinewith two sets of guide vanes, a counter-rotating turbine, Archimedes screw and a gyro device. However, the same design is continuously being chosen – the Kaplan bulb turbine. Through the use of a marking criterion covering key aspects that should be considered when choosing a turbine a variety of the new designs available are investigated. The key aspects researched include, environmental effects, the two-way efficiency, initial costs and maintenance costs/difficulty.
DA - 2016/06//
PY - 2016
VL - 59
SP - 514
EP - 529
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211501730X
DO - 10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.347
LA - English
KW - Tidal
KW - Marine Energy
ER -