Design and Performance Evaluation of a “Fixed-Point” Spar Buoy Equipped with a Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Unit for Floating Near-Shore Applications

In the present work, a spar-buoy scaled model was designed and built through a “Lab-on-Sea” unit, equipped with an energy harvesting system. Such a system is based on deformable bands, which are loyal to the unit, to convert wave motion energy into electricity by means of piezo patch transducers. In...

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Main Authors: Damiano Alizzio, Marco Bonfanti, Nicola Donato, Carla Faraci, Giovanni Maria Grasso, Fabio Lo Savio, Roberto Montanini, Antonino Quattrocchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/5/1912