Swellular - Wave Powered Emergency Communications Device

Conroy, Luke; Childs, Allison; Dold, Katie; Evans, Theodore; Sheehan, Daniel; Strange, Madeline; Breton, Raeanne; Cadogan, Aidan

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Swellular - Wave Powered Emergency Communications Device

2023
By Conroy, Luke ; Childs, Allison ; Dold, Katie ; ...

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Conroy, Luke ; Childs, Allison ; Dold, Katie ; Evans, Theodore ; Sheehan, Daniel ; Strange, Madeline ; Breton, Raeanne ; Cadogan, Aidan
Corporate Authors:

University of New Hampshire. Sea Grant Program.
NOAA Program & Office:

Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
Sea Grant Program:

NHU (New Hampshire Sea Grant)
Description:

The 2023 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition focuses on challenging university students to develop novel and unique solutions to harness marine energy to power the Blue Economy. The goal for these students is to find marine energy solutions to aid in a variety of applications, including power at sea and resiliency in coastal communities. The team from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has developed a product that re-establishes communication for first responders following a natural disaster in a coastal community. With many failed companies and designs in the wave energy converter (WEC) field, the UNH team focused on a design that eliminated the two major failure points – underwater cabling and long-term deployments. Therefore, UNH developed a self-sustaining product that uses wave energy to locally power a radio communication system. The WEC can be rapidly deployed offshore of impacted communities and retrieved once the communication systems are restored in the region. The UNH team named their company “Swellular”, and Swellular’s Wave Energy Converter (SWEC) is a two-body point absorber WEC that uses ocean waves to mobilize a direct drive linear generator that produces electricity.
Keywords:

Coasts Emergency Communication Systems Natural Disasters Ocean Wave Power Emergency Communication Systems Natural Disasters Ocean Wave Power
Format:

pdf
Document Type:

Non-series Report
Place as Subject:

New Hampshire
License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights Information:

CC0 Public Domain
Compliance:

Submitted
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