Analysis of a Sea Wave Energy Harvester for Environmental Monitoring Buoys
An energy harvester exploiting the pitch oscillation of a sensor buoy is presented and analyzed. It consists of a magnetic cylinder rolling on a track located inside the buoy and adjacent to some coils. A simple model able to predict the harvested power in presence of regular and irregular pitch movements is proposed. An experimental prototype was created with a 3D printer and was tested to extract the main parameters of the harvesting system. These are exploited to optimize the harvester design and to predict the harvested power when connected to a rectifier and a DC/DC converter implementing an MPPT algorithm.
Authors
- Alessandro Lo Schiavo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3335-4182)
- C. Boragno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5038-0214)
- Daniele D. Caviglia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-1869)
- Orazio Aiello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6938-9806)
- Filippo Nicora
Institutions
- University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (IT)
- University of Genoa (IT)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-11-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icecs61496.2024.10848561
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.34