iScience (Sep 2024)

A self-powered and self-monitoring ultra-low frequency wave energy harvester for smart ocean ranches

  • Yang Peng,
  • Hongjie Tang,
  • Hongye Pan,
  • Zutao Zhang,
  • Dabing Luo,
  • Minfeng Tang,
  • Weihua Kong,
  • Yingjie Li,
  • Genshuo Liu,
  • Yongli Hu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 9
p. 110665

Abstract

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Summary: The ocean ranch environment contains ultra-low-frequency wave energy that can be utilized for powering low-power equipment. Therefore, this article proposes a smart ocean ranch self-powered and self-monitoring system (SOR-SSS) which consists of several key components: a mass pendulum ball (MPB), a commutation wheel system (CWS), an electromagnetic energy harvesting unit (EEHU), and four piezoelectric energy harvesting units (PEHU). Through six-degree-of-freedom vibration test bench experiments, the SOR-SSS achieved a maximum output power of 17.56 mW under a working condition of 0.4 Hz, which was sufficient to power 152 LED lights. Additionally, by training the experimental base data using the LSTM algorithm, two different tasks were trained with a maximum accuracy of 99.72% and 99.80%, respectively. These results indicate that the SOR-SSS holds significant potential for collecting and predicting ultra-low-frequency blue energy. It can provide an effective energy supply and monitoring solution for smart ocean ranch.

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