Descrizione del progetto
Componenti di stoccaggio dell’energia CubeSat alimentati in modalità wireless
I CubeSats sono piccoli satelliti che hanno rivoluzionato l’accesso allo spazio includendo nuovi sviluppi in vari settori, quali i bollettini meteorologici e la ricerca climatica, le comunicazioni multimediali, il telefono e la televisione, la distribuzione dei dati, i trasporti e la logistica, la navigazione, la sicurezza e il salvataggio. I progressi della tecnologia CubeSat hanno stimolato la domanda di pannelli solari più grandi, elettronica a bassa potenza e sistemi di raccolta dell’energia più efficienti. Il progetto WiPTherm, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà un innovativo sistema di trasferimento wireless dell’energia che ricaricherà in modalità wireless i componenti per lo stoccaggio dell’energia utilizzati nelle tecnologie CubeSat. Comprende dozzine di micropannelli di generatori termoelettrici 2D che finiscono per essere collegati a un sistema plasmonico fotoelettrotermico che converte i fotoni in energia elettrica. La tecnologia WiPTherm è una soluzione veramente pionieristica, pulita ed economica per il trasferimento di energia.
Obiettivo
Micro and Nanosatellites (often referred to as CubeSats) are revolutionizing the paradigm of engineering and space exploration in the last years, in several areas such as weather information and climatic research, multimedia communications, telephone and television, data distribution, transportation and logistics, navigation, safety, security, and rescue. The field of CubeSat is being pointed out as one of the emergent technological markets and it is expected to reach $6.35 billion by 2021, with a CAGR growth of 37.91% in the 2017-2021 period.
With advances in CubeSat technologies, the energy demand in this market segment has also increased dramatically, requiring larger deployable solar arrays, lower power electronics, efficient energy storage systems and further energy transfer/harvesting systems.
The WiPTherm project will design, implement and pilot an innovative Wireless Energy Transfer (WET) system, able to wirelessly recharge the energy storage components used in CubeSat technologies. The WiPTherm technology consists of a pioneering, clean, easy and cheap solution for energy transfer. The energy harvesting system comprises dozens of microarrays of 2D thermoelectric generators, resulting in a photo-thermoelectric plasmonic (HPTP) system that has the ability to convert photon energy into electrical energy (via thermal gradient). The wireless thermal stimulation will be performed through a large-range pulsed high
power laser beam capable of operating at large distances.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyspace exploration
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsphotons
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H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
4099-002 Porto
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