This document presents a novel active magnetic levitation system. In the pursued of this endeavour different topics related with wave energy were explore. Climate change and energy security are the main motivation to pursued new options for non-fossil fuels energy generation. An overview of renewable energy and specifically of wave energy was presented. The potential for wave energy in The United Kingdom turn out to be 75 TWh/year from wave energy, 3 times more of what wind energy has produced in 2013. This means a massive impact on the energy market and emission reduction. In order to achieve this, improvements on wave energy devices have to be done. An overview of wave energy converters was covered selecting the C-Gen as the generator topology this document will base its studies. Linear generator bearings are desired to have long lifespan with long maintenance intervals. The objective is to come with an active magnetic levitation design that can replace traditional bearings augmenting the reliability of the system. Therefore magnetic bearings option have been reviewed and simulation experimentations has resulted in a novel active magnetic levitation system using an air-cored coils Halbach array acting over a levitation track. The configuration would generate bi directional repulsion forces with respect of the levitating body. Different software were used to analyse the magnetic field and forces generation. Additionally a prototype was built and tested to corroborate the results. As part of the modelling a mathematical model was explored and robust control implementation was also realised. Finally a scalability study of the device as well as a reliability analysis was done. Although the reliability studies shows an increase of ten times of the mean time to failure, the concept is not able to endure the loads acting on the generator unless the magnetic bearings became bigger than the generator and therefore economically unfeasible.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:738928 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Barajas Solano, José Ignacio |
| Contributors | Mueller, Markus ; Kiprakis, Aristides |
| Publisher | University of Edinburgh |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28900 |
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