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Abstract With more the 2900 km coastline, Egypt has an unmistakable potential of wave energy. However, the availability of economical solar and wind resources have postponed the investment of wave energy resources. To encourage such investment, the development of small sized, low weight and high efficiency wave energy converter would increase the chances to integrate wave energy farms with the national electrical utility. The worldwide development of wave energy converters has provided numerous conőgurations and topologies for wave energy farm. Among these, a linear generator integrated with ŕoating buoy would be suitable for the small waves amplitude near Egyptian coast. A linear generator that implements Halbach array is the most proper wave energy converter (WEC) to be implemented in Egypt. The proposed optimally designed generators are integrated to form a module with proper voltage and power ratings. In this thesis, the integration of small rating linear generator modules to form a medium scale wave energy farm may be useful for on-shore activities or integrated with grid. The study is performed for wave characteristic available in Mediterranean sea in Egypt. Moreover, a proposal for wave farm construction is introduced to be suitable for Egypt wave energy in Mediterranean Sea in Sidi-Barani. |