Powertrain components for a novelwave energy converter

Sammanfattning: Since mankind found out that she is the reason to the recent global warming shehas, in some societies, begun a conversion of her society, from driven by fossil fuel tosustainable fuel. One of these is so called wave energy.CorPower Ocean's wave energy converter consist of a buoy, which through a wire,is connected to a shaft in the plant. This shaft drives two gas lled and pressurisedpistons, which stores the energy from the buoy's upward motion and returns it at thebuoy downward motion, aiming at evening the energy production over the cycle. Inthe wave energy converter there are several seals, between hydraulic uids, betweenhydraulic uids and the gas pistons as well as between the plant and the surroundingocean where the shaft exits the plant.To select the right kind of seals the range in the working temperature of the surroundinguids need to be known, as do the load of the waves on the shaft. This inorder to select seals of the right material and to construct a linear guide.The purpose of this thesis is to acquire the initial demands for the seal and linearguide. In other words make a thermal analysis of the surrounding environmentin order to select seals and an initial load analysis in order to construct a robustlinear guide.The result is that in order to control the temperature, a reservoir volume shouldbe added to the cylinders and a change in this volume gives the most eect on thetemperature and compression rate. Regarding the linear guides, slide rings on bothsides of the two outer seals should be enough. This thesis should be viewed as aninitial analysis of the sealing problem to be able to outline the demands on the sealsand linear guides related to the gas compartments.