Hardware Implementation of Maximum Power Point Tracking for Thermoelectric Generators
- Submitting institution
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 585
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s11664-014-3046-0
- Title of journal
- Journal of Electronic Materials
- Article number
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- First page
- 2293
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 0361-5235
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Maximum power point tracking has been a challenge for control engineers for decades. Exploiting a gradient-based approach developed initially in simulation, this paper has demonstrated a practical application using proprietary hardware. This paper is significant because it has demonstrated for the first time the practical implementation of maximum power point tracking, energy harvesting from an internal combustion engine, using proprietary hardware in an instrumented laboratory. Maximum power point tracking is essential in the exploitation of efficiency, harvesting energy from otherwise wasted heat from automotive exhaust manifolds from a medium and heavy duty internal combustion and compression ignition engines.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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