Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials
In the automobile sector, energy recovery and sustainability are becoming more and more important, and energy-harvesting suspension systems (EHSAs) have a lot of promise to improve vehicle efficiency. This investigation expands on prior work that investigated the viability of an EHSA that uses perma...
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| author | Susana Aberturas José Luis Olazagoitia Miguel Ángel García Antonio Hernando |
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| description | In the automobile sector, energy recovery and sustainability are becoming more and more important, and energy-harvesting suspension systems (EHSAs) have a lot of promise to improve vehicle efficiency. This investigation expands on prior work that investigated the viability of an EHSA that uses permanent magnets and amorphous core coils. The performance of the proposed system is demonstrated and enhanced in the current study through the development and optimization of a prototype. A thorough testing of the prototype is performed to determine design improvements for boosting the system’s overall performance and to quantify the recovered energy. In previous work, a method was proposed to find the dependence of the magnetic flux with the relative position between the primary and secondary elements to obtain the optimal position for the system. This method is applied to optimize the energy harvesting coil by testing different configurations in terms of the placement and type of amorphous or nonamorphous core inside the energy harvesting coil. This is a crucial area of attention in order to maximize energy recovery while solving the low-frequency problem that suspension systems have (on the order of 10 Hz). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0099d38adc874322b829f9c5711140ab2023-11-18T20:13:47ZengMDPI AGMagnetochemistry2312-74812023-07-019718910.3390/magnetochemistry9070189Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic MaterialsSusana Aberturas0José Luis Olazagoitia1Miguel Ángel García2Antonio Hernando3Industrial Engineering and Automotive Department, Nebrija University, Sta. Cruz de Marcenado, 27, 28015 Madrid, SpainFaculty of Design and Technology, University of Design and Technology (UDIT), Av. Alfonso XIII, 97, 28016 Madrid, SpainIndustrial Engineering and Automotive Department, Nebrija University, Sta. Cruz de Marcenado, 27, 28015 Madrid, SpainIndustrial Engineering and Automotive Department, Nebrija University, Sta. Cruz de Marcenado, 27, 28015 Madrid, SpainIn the automobile sector, energy recovery and sustainability are becoming more and more important, and energy-harvesting suspension systems (EHSAs) have a lot of promise to improve vehicle efficiency. This investigation expands on prior work that investigated the viability of an EHSA that uses permanent magnets and amorphous core coils. The performance of the proposed system is demonstrated and enhanced in the current study through the development and optimization of a prototype. A thorough testing of the prototype is performed to determine design improvements for boosting the system’s overall performance and to quantify the recovered energy. In previous work, a method was proposed to find the dependence of the magnetic flux with the relative position between the primary and secondary elements to obtain the optimal position for the system. This method is applied to optimize the energy harvesting coil by testing different configurations in terms of the placement and type of amorphous or nonamorphous core inside the energy harvesting coil. This is a crucial area of attention in order to maximize energy recovery while solving the low-frequency problem that suspension systems have (on the order of 10 Hz).https://www.mdpi.com/2312-7481/9/7/189EHSApermanent magnetsamorphous core coilsexperimental methodenergy recovery |
| spellingShingle | Susana Aberturas José Luis Olazagoitia Miguel Ángel García Antonio Hernando Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials Magnetochemistry EHSA permanent magnets amorphous core coils experimental method energy recovery |
| title | Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials |
| title_full | Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials |
| title_fullStr | Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials |
| title_short | Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials |
| title_sort | enhanced energy recovery in magnetic energy harvesting shock absorbers using soft magnetic materials |
| topic | EHSA permanent magnets amorphous core coils experimental method energy recovery |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2312-7481/9/7/189 |
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