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The Development of Marine Renewable Energy

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2024 | Viewed by 4860

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Yassine Amirat

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L@bISEN, ISEN Yncréa Ouest, Brest, France
Interests: electric machines and drives; tidal and wave power; wind power; fault detection and diagnosis; fault-tolerant control; microgrids; smart grids
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Dear Colleagues,

Marine renewable energy has attracted more attention recently and has become a focal point due to its reproducibility and cleanness. This promising energy includes wave energy, tidal energy, salinity gradient energy, ocean thermal energy, and wind energy. When utilized, i can make a significant contribution to the supply of renewable energy. Unfortunately, the potential for utility-scale deployments depends not only on the economics of power generation, but also on the likely hydro-environmental effects of deployments. Unfortunately, operating and maintaining utility-scale marine renewable energy converters in a harsh environment is particularly challenging.

This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality papers on marine renewable energy applications and, thus, create a space where readers can find information on marine renewable energy engineering, including critical reviews on methods, solutions, and applications, which will help to strengthen cross-field cooperation mechanisms to boost the deployment of marine renewable energy technologies. In this context, researchers are encouraged to submit manuscripts on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, and analytical studies, as well as assessment papers from different disciplines which are relevant to marine renewable energy applications and the renewable energy market: tidal stream turbines, wave energies, offshore wind turbines technologies, sensing and monitoring systems, subsea engineering, and the prognostics and health management of marine renewable energy conversion systems.

Prof. Dr. Yassine Amirat
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • marine renewable energies
  • offshore wind turbine
  • energy management
  • hybrid power generation
  • prognosis and health management

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Fault-Tolerant Control of Tidal Stream Turbines: Non-Singular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode and Adaptive Robust Method
by Meng Wang, Xueli Wang and Tianzhen Wang
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(4), 539; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12040539 - 24 Mar 2024
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This paper addresses the issues of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and fault-tolerant control in tidal steam turbines under complex marine environments. In order to solve the conflicting problems in the existing sliding mode control between dynamic performance and chatter reduction as well [...] Read more.
This paper addresses the issues of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and fault-tolerant control in tidal steam turbines under complex marine environments. In order to solve the conflicting problems in the existing sliding mode control between dynamic performance and chatter reduction as well as the use of fault estimation link in the fault-tolerant control, which increases the system complexity, an adaptive non-singular fast terminal sliding mode and adaptive robust fault tolerance method (ANFTSMC-ARC) is proposed. First, a speed controller equipped with adaptive non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control (ANFTSMC) is designed to improve the power capture efficiency under swell disturbances. This design achieves fast convergence and circumvents the singularity problem. Then, a new reach law is proposed based on the adaptive hybrid exponential reaching law (AHERL), which ensures high tracking performance while reducing chattering. In addition, considering that the hydraulic pitch system is prone to failure, a fault-tolerant controller with automatically adjustable gain is designed under the adaptive robust scheme. With the help of Lyapunov theory, the closed-loop system is proved to be uniform and ultimately bounded. Finally, comparative simulation results verify the efficiency of the proposed control strategy. Full article
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Model-Free Control for Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet-Generator-Based Tidal Stream Turbine Considering Flux-Weakening Operation
by Hao Chen, Luming Liu, Yassine Amirat, Zhibin Zhou, Nadia Aϊt-Ahmed and Mohamed Benbouzid
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(12), 2276; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122276 - 30 Nov 2023
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Renewable energy generation is increasingly important due to serious energy issues. A Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet Generator (DSPMG) can be an interesting candidate for tidal stream renewable energy systems. However, the special structure makes the system nonlinear and strongly coupled even after Park [...] Read more.
Renewable energy generation is increasingly important due to serious energy issues. A Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet Generator (DSPMG) can be an interesting candidate for tidal stream renewable energy systems. However, the special structure makes the system nonlinear and strongly coupled even after Park transformation and involves a larger torque ripple. Previous research mainly focused on model-based control for this machine, which is very sensitive to the parameters. Thus, to control the complex systems stably and accurately, two model-free control algorithms, Active Disturbance Rejection-Based Iterative Learning Control (ADRILC) and Active Disturbance Rejection Control–Iterative Learning Control (ADRC–ILC), are proposed for the current and speed control loops of a DSPMG-based Tidal Stream Turbine (TST), respectively. ADRC–ILC uses ADRC to deal with the external non-periodic speed ripple and adopts ILC to reduce the internal periodic speed ripple. ADRILC employs an iterative method to improve the ESO for the enhancement of the convergence rate of ILC. Considering the variable tidal speed, when the speed is above the rated value, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) must be changed to a power limitation strategy for limiting the generator power to the rated value and extending the system operating range. Thus, Optimal Tip Speed Ratio (OTSR)-based MPPT (for a low tidal current speed) and Leading Angle Flux-Weakening Control (LAFWC) (for a high tidal current speed) strategies are also proposed. According to the simulation results, the proposed ADRC–ILC + ADRILC has the lowest torque ripple, the highest control accuracy, as well as a good current tracking capability and strong robustness. At the rated speed, the proposed method reduces the torque ripple by more than 20% and the speed error by about 80% compared with PI control: the current difference is limited in 2A. The LAFWC proposed for an excessive tidal current speed is effective in conserving the electromagnetic power and increasing the generator speed. Full article
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Load Frequency Control of Marine Microgrid System Integrated with Renewable Energy Sources
by Guoqiang Zhang, Irfan Ahmed Khan, Amil Daraz, Abdul Basit and Muhammad Irshad Khan
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(4), 844; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11040844 - 17 Apr 2023
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In seaports, low-carbon energy systems and energy efficiency have become increasingly important as a result of the evolution of environmental and climate change challenges. In order to ensure the continued success of seaports, technological advancements must be introduced to a number of systems, [...] Read more.
In seaports, low-carbon energy systems and energy efficiency have become increasingly important as a result of the evolution of environmental and climate change challenges. In order to ensure the continued success of seaports, technological advancements must be introduced to a number of systems, such as seaport vehicles, harbor cranes, and the power sources of berthed ships. Harbor areas might need a microgrid to handle these aspects. Typically, microgrids that substitute conventional generator units with renewable energy sources (RES) suffer from system inertia problems, which adversely affect microgrid frequency stability. A load frequency controller (LFC) based on a novel modified proportional integral derivative with filter (MPIDF) is presented in this paper for enhancing the performance of marine microgrid system (MMS). The serval optimization algorithm (SOA), a recent bio-inspired optimization algorithm, is used to optimize the MPIDF controller coefficients. This controller is tested on a marine microgrid containing a number of RES such as wind turbine generators, sea wave energy, and solar generation. The efficacy of the proposed MPIDF controller is verified with respect to other controllers such as PIDF and PI. Similarly, the proposed meta-heuristic algorithm is validated as compared to other algorithms including particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO), and jellyfish swarm optimization (JSO). This study also evaluates the robustness of the proposed controller to different perturbations in step load, changes in system parameters, and other parameter variations. Full article
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A Serial Fault-Tolerant Topology Based on Sustainable Reconfiguration for Grid-Connected Inverter
by Zhonglin Zhang, Tianzhen Wang, Guodong Chen and Yassine Amirat
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(4), 751; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11040751 - 30 Mar 2023
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Grid-connected inverters are widely used to integrate energy into the grid in renewable energy applications. However, the inverter usually has a high probability of failure due to a large number of semiconductor devices. In addition, especially in the field of marine renewable energy, [...] Read more.
Grid-connected inverters are widely used to integrate energy into the grid in renewable energy applications. However, the inverter usually has a high probability of failure due to a large number of semiconductor devices. In addition, especially in the field of marine renewable energy, the humid environment in offshore and coastal areas may make the inverter more prone to failure, which reduces system reliability. Therefore, a serial fault-tolerant topology based on a sustainable reconfiguration is proposed. The proposed topology can be reconfigured continuously by making full use of healthy devices, which can ensure the output voltage capability and improve the possibility of uninterrupted performance as much as possible. In addition, the cooperative modulation signal is selected for the recombined topology to output the desired voltage, which ensures the quality of the power generated by marine renewable energy. Principles of topology reconfiguration and modulation signal selection is described in detail. Simulation and experimental results verify the validation of the proposed method on the seven-level grid-connected inverter. Full article
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