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Energy harvesting devices for subsea sensors

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  • Chiu, Min-Chie
  • Karkoub, Mansour
  • Her, Ming-Guo

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Subsea engineering has become a thriving field that received a lot of attention from researchers and educators in recent years. The reason for the attention could be economical since many oil and gas fields are offshores, ecological due to pollution, or geological due to earthquakes and Tsunamis. The subsea environment is difficult to conquer and requires sophisticated tools to monitor such as Autonomous or Remote Underwater Vehicles (AUVs or ROVs), submersible sensors, and very skilled manpower. In this work, the focus is on how to supply power indefinitely to stationary sensors at the bottom of the sea. Therefore, an energy harvesting device is designed and simulated to validate its efficacy in supplying the necessary power to charge submersible sensors and their accessories. The device is actuated using water currents and the output voltage is fed through a voltage rectifier to convert it to the required DC input of the sensors. Simulations results showed that the designed device can successfully provide the necessary power for submersible sensors.

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  • Chiu, Min-Chie & Karkoub, Mansour & Her, Ming-Guo, 2017. "Energy harvesting devices for subsea sensors," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 1334-1347.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:101:y:2017:i:c:p:1334-1347
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.10.018
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    1. Chiu, Min-Chie & Karkoub, Mansour & Her, Ming-Guo, 2020. "Two-magnet energy harvesting device for charging submersable sensors," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 120-137.
    2. Nan Wu & Yuncheng He & Jiyang Fu & Peng Liao, 2021. "Study of the Properties of a Hybrid Piezoelectric and Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for a Civil Engineering Low-Frequency Sloshing Environment," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-11, January.
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    4. He, Lipeng & Liu, Renwen & Liu, Xuejin & Zhang, Zheng & Zhang, Limin & Cheng, Guangming, 2023. "A novel piezoelectric wave energy harvester based on cylindrical-conical buoy structure and magnetic coupling," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 210(C), pages 397-407.
    5. Guan, Zhibin & Li, Ping & Wen, Yumei & Du, Yu & Han, Tao & Ji, Xiaojun, 2021. "Efficient underwater energy harvesting from bubble-driven pipe flow," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 295(C).
    6. Qi, Lingfei & Li, Hai & Wu, Xiaoping & Zhang, Zutao & Duan, Wenjun & Yi, Minyi, 2021. "A hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic wave energy harvester based on capsule structure for self-powered applications in sea-crossing bridges," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 178(C), pages 1223-1235.

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