Oscillating water column wave energy converter incorporated into caisson breakwater

a technology of oscillating water column and wave energy converter, which is applied in the direction of caissons, water-power plants, buttress dams, etc., can solve the problems of inability to protect a port, inability to amplify waves, and dangers of overtopping discharg
US20050207844A1Inactive Publication Date: 2005-09-22BOCCOTTI PAOLO
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
BOCCOTTI PAOLO
Publication Date
2005-09-22
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A caisson breakwater provided with vertical duct 2″, room 3″, air-duct 4″, self-rectifying turbine 5″. Under the fluctuations of wave pressure on the outer opening 6, the water, alternately, enters and exits, so that the air in room 3″, alternately, is compressed and expands, and an alternate air flow is produced in the air-duct 4″. The vertical duct 2″ and the room 3′, form a U-conduit, and the air in the room 3″ acts as a spring. The eigenperiod of oscillations in said U-conduit grows as the width of the vertical duct 2″ is reduced and / or the length of said vertical duct is increased, and / or the width and height of the room 3″ is increased. The eigenperiod is fixed close to the wave period of the waves which convey the largest amount of wave energy in a year, so as to absorb a very large quantity of wave energy.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The invention discloses a caisson breakwater which is able to protect a port or a marine sheet of water with a small wave reflection, and is able to convert wave energy into electric power. BACKGROUND ART

[0002] Caisson breakwaters (see e.g. Goda Y., Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures, World Scientific, chap. 4, 2000; or Boccotti P., Wave Mechanics for Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, chap. 13, 2000) consist of caissons in reinforced concrete close to each other or linked together, on a foundation on the seabed. Each caisson is subdivided into a number of cells by vertical walls. Typically the caissons are manufactured in dry docks, towed and sunk. The cells are filled with sand and / or gravel and / or concrete or other kind of ballast. Then a superstructure is cast in concrete.

[0003] Caisson breakwaters are excellent for protecting ports, because they can be built easily and are very resistant The only flaw is that they reflect nearly all the incident wa...

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