Dynamic Vessel Design Feasibility Study for subsea WITT Energy Harvester

该可行性项目旨在确定威特能量采集器能否将6个自由度的混沌动能转换为电能，并将其安装在海底的保护套管内，将海底电流转换为电能，为水下传感器仪器供电。WITT有限公司将与英国海上风能、波浪能和潮汐能的旗舰技术、创新和研究中心海上可再生能源弹射器（OREC）合作，作为分包商，利用他们的专业知识和知识设计一个最佳实施方案，将这种海底电流转化为电能。石油和天然气公司、国防公司以及其他环境和其他应用公司都与Witt有限公司进行了接洽，这些公司对WITT为海底传感器供电的能力感兴趣。WITT的优势在于，它能够在需要电池解决方案的地方提供持续的电力，而在偏远的海上地区更换电池的成本非常高。

This feasibility project looks to determine whether the WITT energy harvester, which converts chaotic motional energy from all 6 degrees of freedom into electrical energy, could be deployed tethered to the sea floor in remote locations, and housed within a protective casing, to convert sub-sea currents into electrical energy to power sensor instrumentation subsea. Witt Limited will be working with The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC), the UK’s flagship technology, innovation and research centre for offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, as a subcontractor to draw on their expertise and knowledge to devise an optimum embodiment to convert such subsea currents into electricity with the WITT housed inside. Witt Limited has been approached by oil and gas entities interested in the capability for the WITT to power sensors subsea, defence entities for sensors, and others for environmental and other applications. The benefit of the WITT is that it would be able to provide continuous power where otherwise battery solutions would be required which batteries are very costly to replace in remote sea locations.