Novel two-stage piezoelectric-based ocean wave energy harvesters for moored or unmoored buoys

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7288, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Murray, R ^a   Rastegar, J ^a  

^a 85 Air Park Drive Unit 3   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoys; Energy harvesting; Piezoelectric ceramics; Power sources; Wave energy harvesting

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; DECOUPLED SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ENERGY HARVESTING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOW FREQUENCY; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS; OCEAN WAVES; OCEAN-WAVE ENERGY; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; POWER SOURCES; PRIMARY SYSTEMS; SECONDARY SYSTEM; SELF-CONTAINED POWER SOURCE; TWO STAGE; VIBRATING ELEMENTS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY HARVESTING; WAVE MOTIONS;

BUOYANCY; BUOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CONCRETE BRIDGES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WATER WAVES;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 69549117028     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.815852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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