Offshore Measurement System for WavePower : Using Current Loop Feedback

• This paper presents the design and testing of a measurement system for wave powergenerators. The work is part of a project to build a robust and cheap measurement system for offshoremonitoring of wave power farms. Due to the harsh offshore environment, low accessibility andhigh cost for installation and maintenance, it is of key importance to minimize power consumption,complexity and cost of each measurement unit. For the first prototype, the objective was to measurevoltage, current and translator position inside the linear wave power generator. For this, twoprinted circuit boards (PCBs) were developed, using a two wire current loop transmitter setup.They were tested separately and in a three phase setup inside a wave power generator duringonshore tests. To ensure stability, speed and accuracy in the signal transfer, the PCBs were tested forlinearity, frequency response and step response. In addition, power consumption was measured,for operational time evaluation. Results show good agreement between expected and measuredperformance, with an input range of ±1560 V and ±420 A for alternating current measurements anda bandwidth of 10 kHz and 7 kHz, for voltage and current measurements, respectively. The powerconsumption was measured to 0.5 W for each measurement unit, at 24 V feed.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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wave power; conditional monitoring; PCB; current loop; measurement system

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