Apparatus for producing electricity from a moving fluid and method
AssigneeSine Delta AS
InventorSteven Barratt
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Abstract
An apparatus is for producing electricity from a moving fluid, wherein the apparatus has: an elongated body having a longitudinal axis, the elongated body being arranged to be attached to the ground or seabed and exposed to the moving fluid; at least one tensioned cable, which is supported in tension from the elongated body, and which is arranged at least in part inside the elongated body and further arranged to oscillate or vibrate upon oscillation of the elongated body; and at least one energy harvester for converting kinetic energy of the at least one oscillating or vibrating tensioned cable to electric energy.
Claims14
An apparatus for producing electricity from a moving fluid comprising:
- an elongated body having a longitudinal axis, the elongated body being arranged to be attached to a ground or seabed and exposed to the moving fluid;
- at least one tensioned cable, which is supported in tension from the elongated body, and which is arranged at least in part inside the elongated body and further arranged to oscillate or vibrate upon oscillation of the elongated body imposing wavelike motions upon the at least one tensioned cable hence the at least one tensioned cable moves or vibrates relative to both the ground or the seabed and to the elongated body;
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- at least one energy harvester for utilizing movement of the at least one tensioned cable relative to the ground or the seabed and the elongated body to produce electric energy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.