This research includes designing and executing of an applied model for converting
the energy of the offshore sea waves into electrical power. The model runs according to
oscillating water column system (OWC) using air turbine, which rotates by the
air pressure
generated by the sea waves within the energy chamber.
The article studies the effect of technological changes on the efficiency of the model
and subsequently the number of its turbine's rotation, within the wave parameters under the
Syrian coast conditions. Results in form of clear curves and diagrams will be discussed.
They will also be analyzed and considered to achieve a suitable suggestion that can
improve the system in the future.
The recent few decades have witnessed growing interest in the environment- friendly
energy sources. Sea Wave Energy is considered as one of the energy sources in the
countries that are located on the seas and oceans. However, this energy source, ga
ined little
interest in Syria compared to sun and wind sources. The aim of this research is to
contribute to the body of research in this field, by developing and implementing an
experimental model of an oscillating water column system, which converts sea wave
energy into electrical energy.
Additionally, the research uses a set of true and false experiments to study the impact
of the technological variables of the system on its efficiency, hence on the number of
rotation of its Wells turbine. The results were represented graphically, and
recommendations and suggestions were provided for the possibility to apply this
technology in Syria.
The study states that the rural community at the Syrian coast witnessed actually
group of changes that were in touch with many sides of its structure and different
functions, thus takeoff of the first light sparks was as an indication of the rural
community
entering into the first stages of the modernization and comprehensive development epoch.
The study got to a conclusion stating that: entering electricity into the coastal
countryside resulted truly in extension of utilization area in the agricultural field and public
service, and then electricity provided the objective pivots to attain the countryside stability,
and pushed the development wheel of its possibilities forward just as the urbanized
community, because the sustainable development is completely and continuously societal
operation.
In spite of the important changing role that electricity played in the rural
developmental operation, but the ambition is still larger in extending the utilization of this
type of energy densely in both agricultural industry and tourist industry sectors, where all
basic factors of promoting these two sectors in the coastal countryside are available, what
ensure a rich source for supporting the national economy that consequently sustains the
national returns of the foreign currency and forms a prop in the operation of attaining
requirements of social welfare of the entire society.
