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Harvesting the Motion of the Ocean

Harvesting the Motion of the Ocean. AquaEnergy Development UK, Ltd. Kenneth L. Kukes, Executive Vice President. Predecessor Technologies. IPS Buoy. Wave direction. 2. 1. 5.00m. Wave gauges. 4.73m. Connection. 4.10m. floats. 3.70m. AquaBuOY's. 4. 3. 3.30m. Springs. Strings.

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Harvesting the Motion of the Ocean

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  1. Harvesting the Motion of the Ocean AquaEnergy Development UK, Ltd. Kenneth L. Kukes, Executive Vice President

  2. Predecessor Technologies IPS Buoy

  3. Wave direction 2 1 5.00m Wave gauges 4.73m Connection 4.10m floats 3.70m AquaBuOY's 4 3 3.30m Springs Strings 2.90m 6 5 2.50m 2.10m 8 7 1.70m 1.30m 0.90m 0.26m 9 10 0.00m 0.90m 1.30m 1.70m 2.34m 2.60m 0.26m 0.00m 4 AquaBuOY Formation Testing

  4. AquaBuOY Operation

  5. AC AquaBuOY – Closed Loop Device RemoteMonitoring Hose Pumps Accumulator Pelton Generator System Mgmt Conditioning & Grid Interface Submarine Cable Flow Control Sensor & Control Network Closed-loop return to hose pumps

  6. Proposed AquaBuOY Demo Plant • Each AquaBuOY • Yearly avg wave energy 35kW/mBuoy diameter 5m • Nameplate capacity 250kW • Average power produced 56kW • AquaBuOY 5MW Power Plant • Number of AquaBuOYs 20 • Yearly energy produced 10GWh

  7. Land Station AquaBuOY Submarine power cable Pressurized Hose Pressurized Hose Turbine & Generator (sea floor) Pressurized Hose 200m spoke length 10 AquaBuOYs per spoke Mooring System Dimensions and distances not to scale. Demo Plant - Sectional Block Diagram Ten AquaBuOYs in one spoke (Sea floor Turbine and Generator w/ Slack Mooring System.)

  8. Sustainable Jobs for Local Community • Local assembly • The buoy hull • Acceleration tube • Mooring system • Plant final assembly • Deployment • Purchased • Hose pump – Dunlop (UK) • Cables to shore (Spain) • Generators, turbines and electrical equipment (Spain) • Controls (Spain) • Engineering (Spain) • Operation • Local labor

  9. Clean Energy @ Low Cost • Electricity Demand • Double by 2020 worldwide • Solution • Low cost energy from ocean waves • Patented technology “ It has been estimated that if less than 0.1% of the renewable energy available within the oceans could be converted into electricity it would satisfy the present world demand for energy more than five times over“ UK Marine Foresight Panel, 2000

  10. AquaEnergy Group Ltd. AquaEnergy Group (425) 430-7924

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