TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental investigation on an ocean kinetic energy harvester for underwater gliders
AU - Ding, Wenjun
AU - Song, Baowei
AU - Mao, Zhaoyong
AU - Wang, Keyan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/27
Y1 - 2015/10/27
N2 - To deal with the energy limitation of underwater gliders, based on existing wave energy converters at home and aboard, a pendulum-type ocean kinetic energy harvester was proposed for sensors energy supply on underwater gliders, which only consists of two conversion systems, and can directly transfer the ocean energy to the generator to improve the conversion efficiency. A prototype device was fabricated and evaluated experimentally with a natural frequency of 1.1Hz at high damping values, and 1Hz at low damping values. The performance of the harvester was studied experimentally on the six degrees of freedom ocean motion simulation platform. It was found the result of the average output power at 1 sea state could reach or more than 150mW, which was enough for sensors energy supply. The results proved that the pendulum-type ocean kinetic energy harvester could be applied on underwater gliders.
AB - To deal with the energy limitation of underwater gliders, based on existing wave energy converters at home and aboard, a pendulum-type ocean kinetic energy harvester was proposed for sensors energy supply on underwater gliders, which only consists of two conversion systems, and can directly transfer the ocean energy to the generator to improve the conversion efficiency. A prototype device was fabricated and evaluated experimentally with a natural frequency of 1.1Hz at high damping values, and 1Hz at low damping values. The performance of the harvester was studied experimentally on the six degrees of freedom ocean motion simulation platform. It was found the result of the average output power at 1 sea state could reach or more than 150mW, which was enough for sensors energy supply. The results proved that the pendulum-type ocean kinetic energy harvester could be applied on underwater gliders.
KW - energy harvester
KW - ocean kinetic energy
KW - underwater glider
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963545429&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2015.7309802
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2015.7309802
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84963545429
T3 - 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
SP - 1035
EP - 1038
BT - 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
Y2 - 20 September 2015 through 24 September 2015
ER -