Evaluating the Potential Use of Tidal Energy: A Study of Different Regions in Kuwait

Authors

  • Saad Abdullah Alshatti University of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
  • Mohammed Salem Alsubai'e University of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/ei.v6i2.229

Keywords:

Kuwait, Renewable Energy, Current Velocity, Tidal Energy, Tidal Plant, MENA Region, Tidal Waves

Abstract

This Study is based on Statistical Data of Tidal Waves in the Different Regions of Kuwait. Nowadays, Kuwait city is considered a good example for the countries that characterizes with an essential rate of exhaustion of energy. This in turns results in a substantial increase with need of immaculate and renewable energy obstetrics origins that can be used in generating electricity. This Paper aims to estimate the possibility for employing tidal energy in Kuwait city according to statistically collected data about tidal waves in several areas. Statistics associated to current velocity of water were gathered from Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. Additionally, Civil Aviation Meteorological Department was managed to be appropriate for obtaining information about current velocity of water. The obtained results in this paper showed that there is a great possibility to use resources of renewable within Kuwait to achieve the demands of energy. Also, the results shows that Plants of tidal power are built within different locations, and the MENA area still lacks to tidal power plant, where that the lone reported plant of the power via tides is the that reputable through an Israeli company called WERPO.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Saad Abdullah Alshatti, University of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

Specialist Trainer (G), The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, University of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, KUWAIT

Mohammed Salem Alsubai'e, University of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

Specialist Trainer (G), The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, University of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, KUWAIT

References

Al-Ammar E. A., Malik N. H., and Usman, M. (2011) Application of Using Hybrid Renewable Energy in Saudi Arabia, ETASR - Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, 1(4):84-89.

Bansal R., and Zoba A. (2011) Handbook of renewable energy technologies, World Scientific Publishing Company.

Bir G.S., Lawson M. J., and Li Y. (2011) Structural Design of a Horizontal-Axis Tidal Current Turbine Composite Blade, National Renewable energy laboratory (NREL).

Brinck D., and Jeremejeff N. (2013) The development of a vertical axis tidal current turbine, KTH School of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Etemad A, Emami Y., and Emdadi A. (2011) Electricity generation by the tidal barrages, Maxwell Scientific Organization.

Fraenkel P. (2010) Development and testing of marine current turbine’s SeaGen 1.2MW tidal stream turbine, International conference on ocean energy.

Gilany M. (2001) Tidal Power Generation Systems, the American University in Cairo Engineering Department.

Gorji-Bandpy M., Azimi M., and Jouya M. (2013) Tidal Energy and Main Resources in the Persian Gulf, Distributed Generation and Alternative Energy Journal, 28 (2) pp: 61-74.

Goundar M., and Ahmed M. (2013) Design of a horizontal axis tidal current turbine, Applied Energy.

Gray T. (1970) Tidal Power Proceedings of an International Conference on the Utilization of Tidal Power, Atlantic Industrial Research Institute.

Howell R., Qin N., Edwards J., and Durrani N. (2011) Wind tunnel and numerical study of a small vertical axis wind turbine, Elsevier, Vol. 35. 0960-1481.

International Energy Agency (2013) World Energy Resources, IEA.

International Energy Agency (2014) World energy investment outlook, IEA.

Khalid S. Sh., Liang Z., and Shah N. (2012) Harnessing Tidal Energy Using Vertical Axis Tidal Turbine, Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 5(1), pp: 239-252.

Khalid S., Liang Zh., and Shah N. (2013) Harnessing Tidal Energy Using Vertical Axis Tidal Turbine, Maxwell Scientific Organization.

Lee J. H., Park S., Kim D. H., and Rhee SH. (2013) Computational methods for performance analysis of horizontal axis tidal stream turbines, Energy, 98:512–23.

Li, Y. & Calisal, S. (2010). Three-dimensional effects and arm effects on modeling a vertical axis tidal current turbine. Renewable Energy. 35. 2325-2334. 10.1016/j.renene.2010.03.002.

Statistical Review (2015) BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

--0--

Downloads

Published

2018-12-30

How to Cite

Alshatti, S. A., & Alsubai'e, M. S. (2018). Evaluating the Potential Use of Tidal Energy: A Study of Different Regions in Kuwait. Engineering International, 6(2), 107–128. https://doi.org/10.18034/ei.v6i2.229

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): July - December

Section

Peer Reviewed Articles

License

Engineering International is an Open Access journal. Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of their work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. We require authors to inform us of any instances of re-publication.