Overview
- Explains the principles, modeling, and measurements of marine renewable energy resources that will enable optimal energy harvest and minimize system effects.
- Demonstrates the linkages between the theoretical estimates of marine energy and practical applications in coastal and open ocean waters throughout the world.
- Features many detailed illustrations that support resource characterization and the assessment of physical effects on the environment.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This complete reference to marine renewable energy covers aspects of resource characterization and physical effects of harvesting the ocean’s vast and powerful resources—from wave and tidal stream to ocean current energy. Experts in each of these areas contribute their insights to provide a cohesive overview of the marine renewable energy spectrum based on theoretical, numerical modeling, and field-measurement approaches. They provide clear explanations of the underlying physics and mechanics, and give close consideration to practical implementation aspects, including impacts on the physical system. Engineers, researchers, and students alike will find invaluable tools and studies that will aid them in realizing significant sustainable energy production from near-shore and ocean environments.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Andrea Copping is a Senior Research Scientist and Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington. Dr. Copping’s research focuses on the environmental effects of the development of wave and tidal energy and of offshore wind installations, and on the role that these effects play in technology development and project initiation across the nation. Dr. Copping leads international projects under International Energy Agency agreements on the environmental effects of marine energy development (Annex IV) and of wind (WREN) that share environmental effects information, enabling researchers to benefit from progressmade around the world. Prior to joining PNNL, Dr. Copping was the Associate Director of the Washington Sea Grant Program. Although trained as a blue water biological oceanographer, she has spent most of her career examining the interactions of humans and the marine environment. Her professional involvement includes serving as an Associate Editor of the Coastal Management Journal and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Marine Energy. Dr. Copping holds a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Washington.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marine Renewable Energy
Book Subtitle: Resource Characterization and Physical Effects
Editors: Zhaoqing Yang, Andrea Copping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53536-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53534-0Published: 19 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85177-8Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53536-4Published: 24 April 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 387
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 135 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Offshore Engineering, Oceanography