A Method and Apparatus for Underwater Environmental Energy Transfer with a Long Lead Zirconate Titanate Transducer

Abstract

The invention as disclosed is an underwater based electric energy production system. A cable having a piezoelectric core is attached on one end thereof to a floating buoy and on the other end thereof to an anchor. The system is deployed in the water such that the cable extends vertically through a water column. Movement of the cable due to water current generates electric power that can be harvested and stored. The floating buoy can be at or near the water's surface and the anchor can but need not rest on the sea floor.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 07, 2010
Accession Number
ADD020428

Entities

People

  • Derke R. Hughes

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Constitutive Equations
  • Data Acquisition
  • Electric Power
  • Energy
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Production
  • Energy Transfer
  • Frequency
  • Inventions
  • Lead Zirconate Titanates
  • Materials
  • Power
  • Sonar Transducers
  • Titanates
  • Transducers
  • Vibration
  • Zirconates

Readers

  • Oceanography.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Surface Engineering/Surface Coating Technology.