Design, build and testing of MAGtronics electricity harvesting technology for rotor instrumentation in a 10 kW variable speed drive system

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Energy Efficiency(Other)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion)

Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
Wind Technologies Limited

Collaborative Research & Development

Innovate UK

01 April 2015

30 September 2016

18 months

£350,738

East of England

Competition Call: 1406_CDR1_ETCH_ENHARV - Not Available. Activity Energy harvesting for autonomous electronics

Project Contact, Wind Technologies Limited

Project Contact, University of Cambridge

This project is a collaboration between Wind Technologies Limited (WT) and Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) and aims to study, prove and quantify the performance and economics of a new energy harvesting technology, MAGtronics, that extracts DC electricity from the leakage magnetic flux in an electrical motor. Through removing the need for battery-powered supply, MAGtronics enables instrumentation and monitoring of rotor operation, which can increase the efficiency and reliability of inverter-fed motors, and reduce maintenance costs, hence contributing to wider penetration of variable speed drives (VSDs) in industrial motor applications, such as pumps, fans and compressors. A prototype system comprising MAGtronics, measurement sensors, and signal conditioning, data management and wireless transmission electronics will be built & tested in a 10 kW VSD, and its performance and benefits assessed and quantified. The industrialisation aspects of its hardware and software design will also be studiedThis project is a collaboration between Wind Technologies Limited (WT) and Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) and aims to study, prove and quantify the performance and economics of a new energy harvesting technology, MAGtronics, that extracts DC electricity from the leakage magnetic flux in an electrical motor. Through removing the need for battery-powered supply, MAGtronics enables instrumentation and monitoring of rotor operation, which can increase the efficiency and reliability of inverter-fed motors, and reduce maintenance costs, hence contributing to wider penetration of variable speed drives (VSDs) in industrial motor applications, such as pumps, fans and compressors. A prototype system comprising MAGtronics, measurement sensors, and signal conditioning, data management and wireless transmission electronics will be built & tested in a 10 kW VSD, and its performance and benefits assessed and quantified. The industrialisation aspects of its hardware and software design will also be studied

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