Imperial College London
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ProfessorMatthewPiggott

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Professor of Computational Geoscience and Engineering
 
 
 
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4.82Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Angeloudis:2019,
author = {Angeloudis, A and Hawkins, N and Kramer, SC and Piggott, MD},
pages = {159--168},
title = {Comparison of twin-basin lagoon systems against conventional tidal power plant designs},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Tidal power plant proposals present opportunities to deliver sustainable energy to the national grid in the UK and beyond. Multiple designs have been considered over the years that seek to competitively balance economic, environmental and technical challenges. Tidal range power plants have the advantage of reliable and predictable energy outputs with a certain degree of flexibility but typically feature non-generation periods in every tidal cycle. Twin-basin systems present an alternative that can significantly reduce this variability but very little information has been reported in terms of their performance to-date. In this work a coastal ocean modelling framework has been coupled with twin-basin and tidal power plant operation algorithms and is applied to compare tidal energy options. Results suggest that through use of a twin basin system the non-generation time can be substantially reduced at a notable expense to the overall energy output relative to conventional tidal lagoons and barrages.
AU  - Angeloudis,A
AU  - Hawkins,N
AU  - Kramer,SC
AU  - Piggott,MD
EP  - 168
PY  - 2019///
SP  - 159
TI  - Comparison of twin-basin lagoon systems against conventional tidal power plant designs
ER  -
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