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Modeling a Wave Energy Harvester for Supplying Data Buoys
by
Alessandro Lo Schiavo
Alessandro Lo Schiavo 1,*,
Filippo Nicora
Filippo Nicora 2 and
Corrado Boragno
Corrado Boragno 2
1
Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(16), 7019; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14167019 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 18 July 2024
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Revised: 5 August 2024
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Accepted: 8 August 2024
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Published: 9 August 2024
Abstract
An energy harvester scavenging the kinetic energy of fluctuating waves for supplying small sea monitoring buoys is studied and tested. The harvester exploits a magnetic cylinder that rolls on a track due to the pitching motion of the buoy. The electromagnetic coupling between the rolling magnet and pairs of coils placed along the track generates an electromotive force used to supply a DC load through a bridge rectifier. The considered harvester is characterized by low-cost, simplicity, lightness and efficiency. An analytical model of the harvester is presented to investigate its operating conditions and to predict its nonlinear dynamic behavior. The operating mode of the energy harvester named bang-bang is studied in depth as it allows maximizing the extracted power, and analytical equations that characterize the behavior of the harvester in this operating mode are deduced. A prototype of the energy harvester was built and tested in order to identify the model parameters and to validate the theoretical results.
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Lo Schiavo, A.; Nicora, F.; Boragno, C.
Modeling a Wave Energy Harvester for Supplying Data Buoys. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 7019.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app14167019
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Lo Schiavo A, Nicora F, Boragno C.
Modeling a Wave Energy Harvester for Supplying Data Buoys. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(16):7019.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app14167019
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Lo Schiavo, Alessandro, Filippo Nicora, and Corrado Boragno.
2024. "Modeling a Wave Energy Harvester for Supplying Data Buoys" Applied Sciences 14, no. 16: 7019.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app14167019
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