Genovese, Andrea
(2018)
MULTI‐PHYSICAL MODELLING AND PROTOTYPING OF AN
ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM INTEGRATED IN A
RAILWAY PNEUMATIC SUSPENSION.
[Tesi di dottorato]
| Item Type: |
Tesi di dottorato
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| Lingua: |
English |
| Title: |
MULTI‐PHYSICAL MODELLING AND PROTOTYPING OF AN
ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM INTEGRATED IN A
RAILWAY PNEUMATIC SUSPENSION |
| Creators: |
| Creators | Email |
|---|
| Genovese, Andrea | andrea.genovese2@unina.it |
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| Date: |
10 December 2018 |
| Number of Pages: |
157 |
| Institution: |
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: |
Ingegneria Industriale |
| Dottorato: |
Ingegneria industriale |
| Ciclo di dottorato: |
31 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: |
| nome | email |
|---|
| Grassi, Michele | michele.grassi@unina.it |
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| Tutor: |
| nome | email |
|---|
| Russo, Michele | UNSPECIFIED | | Terzo, Mario | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Date: |
10 December 2018 |
| Number of Pages: |
157 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Energy harvesting, vibrations, railway, piezoelectric, rail vheicle dynamics, multi-physics, air spring, diaphragm |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: |
Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione > ING-IND/13 - Meccanica applicata alle macchine |
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| Additional Information: |
alternative email address: andrea.genovese16@gmail.com |
| Date Deposited: |
02 Jan 2019 15:24 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Jun 2020 14:15 |
| URI: |
http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/12581 |
Abstract
The aim of this PhD thesis is the investigation of an energy harvesting system to be
integrated in a railway pneumatic spring to recovery otherwise wasted energy source
from suspension vibration. Exploiting the piezoelectric effect to convert the mechanical
energy into an electrical one, the final scope consists on the use of this system to power
supply one or more sensors that can give useful information for the monitoring and the
diagnostics of vehicle or its subsystems.
Starting from the analysis of the energy sources, a multi‐physical approach to the study
of an energy harvesting system is proposed to take into account all physics involved in
the phenomenon, to make the most of the otherwise wasted energy and to develop a
suitable and affordable tool for the design.
The project of the energy harvesting device embedded in a railway pneumatic spring has
been carried out by means of using a finite element technique and multi‐physics
modelling activity. The possibility to combine two energy extraction processes was
investigated with the purpose of making the most of the characteristics of the system
and maximize the energy recovering.
Exploiting commercial piezoelectric transducers, an experimental activity was conducted
in two steps. A first mock‐up was built and tested on a shaker to develop the device and
to tune the numerical model against experimental evidence. In the second step a fullscale
prototype of an air spring for metro application with the EH system was realized. In
order to test the full‐scale component, the design of a new test bench was carried out.
Finally, the Air spring integrated with the EH device was tested and models validated.
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