OWEC® Drawings

OWEB Ocean Wave Energy Web drawing shows operation of interconnected OWEC® modules. Submerged portions are suspended at depths permitting full reciprocation of buoys and respective driveshafts. Optional damper plates may be used as sea anchors so that only light bottom, slack mooring is required to keep an array at a particular station. Wave activity on buoys induces relative motion between driveshafts and remaining module portions to drive electrical generators. Output is additively combined, within each module housing, and interconnected  with other modules to culminate at terminals.

Manufacture and installation of several different module sizes are envisioned to accommodate the range of all ocean waves. Electrical products are simply multiplied with the size and number of OWEC® in a module array. Over random wave conditions at selected sites, for example, output of one particular size OWEC® = x watts, 10 OWEC® = 10x watts, 100 OWEC® = 100x watts, and so in continuance. In broad OWEB arrays of all proportions and quantity, module interconnection synergy improves stability and ballast control of submerged portions, large area ocean wave mapping for optimally "pretuning" modules to oncoming forces, and long distance power transmission techniques of a comprehensive OWEB network. Accordingly, total power production may be efficiently regulated over vast OWEC® fields.

OWEC Ocean Wave Energy Converter® applies to several conventional and emerging technologies. Intensifying electrical demand is predicted, initially with small-scale use, for assisting or replacing prime charging sources of discrete marine aids to navigation, environmental monitoring instrumentation, or like installations requiring in situ electricity. OWEC® power supply for wide commercialization supports resource exploration, recovery, and processing facilities in diverse fields such as oil, gas, mineral, fishery, aquaculture, and very large-scale desalination and electrolysis operations.