A mixed-integer programming methodology to design tidal current farms integrating both cost and benefits: A case study in the Chacao Channel, Chile

Aguayo, Maichel M.; Fierro, Pablo E.; Fuente, Rodrigo A. De la; Sepúlveda, Ignacio A.; Figueroa, Dante M.

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116980

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“…For instance, biofouling and marine corrosion is a topic that is particularly aggressive on the Chilean coast and requires special treatment to implement ORE devices [74][75][76]. In recent years, research has mostly focused on improving technologies and novel techniques to make ORE more competitive considering the country's particular characteristics [77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86].…”

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A Review of Offshore Renewable Energy in South America: Current Status and Future Perspectives

et al. 2023

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This paper addresses the current status and future research and development perspectives associated with technologies to harness offshore renewable energy, including offshore wind, waves, tides, ocean currents, and thermal and salinity gradient, in South America (SA). It focuses on five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. At first, a comprehensive survey presents the number of scientific papers classified based on the resource to show the tendency and importance of such subjects in the academic community. Each country’s electricity matrix and grid connection are shown to understand the region’s renewable source participation situation. The potential of offshore renewable resources is addressed by considering the published technical papers in scientific journals. The main conflicts and synergies associated with ocean space utilization are presented by considering the exclusive economic zone of each country. The status of the regulatory frameworks to promote and development of offshore renewable energies is presented. Two sections are dedicated to presenting the active, decommissioned and planned projects, research groups and laboratory infrastructures to develop the technologies. The last section discusses the future perspectives on the development of this sector in SA. It is observed that SA, with more than 25,000 km of coastline, has a great potential for offshore renewable energy; however, so far, these resources have not been explored commercially. Larger investment in the sector, establishing an adequate legal framework and deploying full-scale demonstration projects at sea are necessary for the commercialization of such technologies in SA.

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A Review of Offshore Renewable Energy in South America: Current Status and Future Perspectives

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“…Integrating cost and benefit in the optimization process have also been of interest in the literature. Reference [63] implemented a mixed-integer programming methodology to optimize potential tidal current farms in the Chacao Channel, Chile. They highlighted the accurate characterization of wake effects as an interesting future work to extend their methodology.…”

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Developing an Extended Virtual Blade Model for Efficient Numerical Modeling of Wind and Tidal Farms

Radfar¹,

Kinaoush²

2022

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The Virtual Blade Model (VBM) is the implementation of the Blade element model (BEM). This was done by coupling the Blade Element Momentum theory equations to simulate rotor operation with the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equation to simulate rotor wake and the turbulent flow field around it. Exclusion of actual geometry of blades causes lower computational cost (about 10 to 100 times). Also, due to simplifications in the meshing procedure, VBM is easier to set up than the models that consider the actual geometry of blades. One of the main unaddressed limitations of the VBM code was the constraint of modeling up to ten rotor zones within one computational domain. This paper provides a detailed and well-documented general methodology to develop a virtual blade model for simulation of ten-plus turbines within one computational domain to remove the limitation of this widely used and robust code. It is strongly believed that the technical contribution of this paper, combined with the current sky-rocketing advancement of available computational resources and hardware, would open the gates to simulate various engineering problems in the field of aerospace, clean energy, and many more.

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A review of tidal current power generation farm planning: Methodologies, characteristics and challenges

Yang,

Ren,

et al. 2024

Renewable Energy

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A mixed-integer programming methodology to design tidal current farms integrating both cost and benefits: A case study in the Chacao Channel, Chile

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

A Review of Offshore Renewable Energy in South America: Current Status and Future Perspectives

A Review of Offshore Renewable Energy in South America: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Developing an Extended Virtual Blade Model for Efficient Numerical Modeling of Wind and Tidal Farms

A review of tidal current power generation farm planning: Methodologies, characteristics and challenges

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