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A Magnetostrictive Energy Harvester for Shipboard Mechanical Vibration Sources

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-10-M-0303
Agency Tracking Number: N10A-020-0314
Amount: $69,984.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N10A-T020
Solicitation Number: 2010.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-06-28
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2011-04-30
Small Business Information
P.O. Box 71
Hanover, NH 03755
United States
DUNS: 072021041
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Bruce Pilvelait
 Principal Investigator
 (603) 643-3800
 brp@creare.com
Business Contact
 James Barry
Title: President
Phone: (603) 643-3800
Email: contractsmgr@creare.com
Research Institution
 University of Dayton Research Inst.
 Claudette Groeber
 
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469
United States

 (937) 229-2919
 Domestic Nonprofit Research Organization
Abstract

There are many efforts underway to develop distributed shipboard health monitoring sensors. These devices face strong opposition by fleet maintainers unless the requirements for power supply cabling and/or battery maintenance are eliminated. Consequently, methods for harvesting energy from local environmental conditions using heat, solar, and vibration are of great interest. As opposed to piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy harvesting devices which tend to be either fragile or large and inefficient, magnetostrictive energy harvesting devices offer reliability, excellent conversion efficiency, and low cost. We propose to determine the feasibility of developing a magnetostrictive energy harvesting device for shipboard distributed health monitoring sensors using vibration as the energy input. During Phase I, we will develop the concept described in this proposal and build and evaluate a prototype. During Phase II, we will fabricate several prototype systems and demonstrate performance on large scale platforms.

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