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Athens, Greece 01/10/1994*double click on empty space anywhere on page, to access pagetop
3. The AKROKERAMOS breakwater3.1. The Site - Geographical and Civil aspects
The AKROKERAMOS site was selected mainly for reasons of economy and accessibility. The harbor protected by the 800 m breakwater is located at Piraeus, at the Saronikos gulf in Attica.
The AKROKERAMOS project was in fact, one of the very first attempts to illustrate this type of approach in wave energy exploitation as a multi-purpose solution accessing both financial and technical constrains. In this respect, the whole design efforts were focused on providing a radically new solution, by means of a conformal and modular, self-standing wave energy converter, suitable for further mounting on the run-up wall of the breakwater. Functionally, the converter would also serve the purpose of absorbing most of the energy of the impacting waves -as it is exposed to the sea wave action, and, turn it into compressed air (subsequently converted into electric power). Among several considerations, the estimated wave potential was not particularly high, yet, the force of impacting waves was quite appreciable, since the rather long estimated fetch (over 60 Km) and the strong winds, often created wave heights in excess of 5m.
The hereby provided pictorial material provide a detailed preview of the geographical as well as the in-situ location.
AKROKERAMOS breakwater
- Territorial Map -AKROKERAMOS breakwater
- Aerial View A -AKROKERAMOS breakwater
- Aerial View B -AKROKERAMOS breakwater
- Closeup left View -
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