Design, build and testing of MAGtronics electricity harvesting technology for rotor instrumentation in a 10 kW variable speed drive system

该项目是Wind Technologies Limited(WT)和剑桥大学工程系(CUED)的合作项目，旨在研究、证明和量化一种新的能源收集技术MAGtronics的性能和经济性，MAGtronics可以从电机的漏磁中提取直流电。通过消除对电池供电的需求，MAGtronics实现了对转子运行的仪表和监控，这可以提高逆变器供电电机的效率和可靠性，并降低维护成本，从而促进变速驱动器(VSD)在工业电机应用中的更广泛渗透，如泵、风扇和压缩机。由MAGtronics、测量传感器、信号调理、数据管理和无线传输电子设备组成的原型系统将在10kW的VSD上进行搭建和测试，并对其性能和效益进行评估和量化。还将研究其硬件和软件设计的工业化方面

This project is a collaboration between Wind Technologies Limited (WT) and Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) and aims to study, prove and quantify the performance and economics of a new energy harvesting technology, MAGtronics, that extracts DC electricity from the leakage magnetic flux in an electrical motor. Through removing the need for battery-powered supply, MAGtronics enables instrumentation and monitoring of rotor operation, which can increase the efficiency and reliability of inverter-fed motors, and reduce maintenance costs, hence contributing to wider penetration of variable speed drives (VSDs) in industrial motor applications, such as pumps, fans and compressors. A prototype system comprising MAGtronics, measurement sensors, and signal conditioning, data management and wireless transmission electronics will be built & tested in a 10 kW VSD, and its performance and benefits assessed and quantified. The industrialisation aspects of its hardware and software design will also be studied