Strategic practices : : hidden histories of gender in Finland 1880-2005 : projektikuvaus

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Energy harvesting methods for wireless sensor nodes in heavy-duty vehicles

The number of autonomous wireless sensor and control nodes has been increasing rapidly during the last decade. Until recently, these wireless nodes have been powered with batteries, which have lead to a short life cycle and high maintenance need. Due to these battery-related problems, new energy sources have been studied to power wireless nodes. One solution is energy harvesting, i.e. extracting energy from the ambient environment. Energy harvesting can provide a long-lasting power source for sensor nodes, with no need for maintenance. In this thesis, various energy harvesting technologies are studied whilst focusing on the theory of each technology and the state-of-the-art solutions of published studies and commercial solutions. In addition to energy harvesting, energy storage and energy management solutions are also studied as a subsystem of a whole energy source solution. Wireless nodes are also used in heavy-duty vehicles. Therefore a reliable, long-lasting and maintenance-free power source is also needed in this kind of environment. A forestry harvester has been used as a case study to study the feasibility of energy harvesting in a forestry harvester’s sliding boom. The energy harvester should be able to produce few milliwatts to power the target system, an independent limit switch.

Visualization of thermal-hydraulic nodes

The purpose of this thesis was to develop a program that can illustrate thermal-hydraulic node dimensions used in SMABRE simulations. These created node illustrations are used to verify the correctness of the designed simulation model and in addition they can be included in scientific reports. This thesis will include theory about SMABRE and relevant programs that were used to achieve the ending results. This thesis will give explanations for different modules that were created and used in the finished program, and it will present the different problems encountered and provide the solutions. The most important objective in this thesis is to display the results of generic VVER-1000 node dimensions and verify the correctness in the displayed part. The finished program was created using code language Python.