Towards Meso and Macro Scale Energy Harvesting of Vibration

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiudong Tang ◽  
Lei Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Wireless Sensors ◽  
Piezoelectric Materials ◽  
Mechanical Vibration ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
Vehicle Suspensions ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
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New Research

The ambient environment is full of energy of different forms such as sun light, wind, heat, hydraulic energy, and mechanical motion including vibration. People have been seeking ways to convert the ambient energy into useful forms since ancient time. With the global concern of energy and environmental issue, energy harvesting provides one attractive solution and becomes a new research frontier. However, the majority of current research on energy harvesting from mechanical vibration obtains 10μW to 100mW energy, which has only limited applications like self-powered wireless sensors. More than ten review articles appeared in the past five years on vibration energy harvesting, whereas, the majority of which focuses on the applications in microelectronics and wireless sensors. The objective of this review is to survey the research and applications of meso and marco scale energy harvesting from vibration, and discuss the particular challenges and future research directions. Topics include piezoelectric materials and electromagnetic transducers, relevant motion and magnification mechanisms, and power electronics and control, with applications on energy harvesting from human motions, vehicle suspensions and civil structures.

Load-Tolerant, High-Efficiency Self-Powered Energy Harvesting Scheme Using a Nonlinear Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Lallart ◽  
Claude Richard ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Yi-Chieh Wu ◽  
Daniel Guyomar
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Piezoelectric Materials ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Energy Scavenging ◽  
Resistive Load ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Nonlinear Approach ◽  
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AbstractSmall-scale energy harvesting has become a particularly hot topic for replacing batteries in autonomous or nomad systems. In particular, vibration energy harvesting using piezoelectric elements has experienced a significant amount of research over the last decade as vibrations are widely available in many environments and as piezoelectric materials can be easily embedded. However, the energy scavenging abilities of such systems are still limited and are very sensitive to the connected load. The purpose of this paper is to expose a new approach based on synchronous switching on resistive load, which allows both a significant enhancement of the energy harvesting capabilities as well as a high tolerance to a change of the impedance of the connected system, especially in the low value region. It is theoretically and experimentally shown that such an approach permits increasing the energy harvesting abilities by a factor 4 compared to classical DC energy harvesting approach. Furthermore, the self-powering possibility and automatic load adaptation of the proposed method is experimentally discussed, showing the realistic viability of the technique.

scholarly journals A Novel Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Node Based on Energy Harvesting for Mechanical Vibration Monitoring

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xihai Zhang ◽  
Junlong Fang ◽  
Fanfeng Meng ◽  
Xiaoli Wei
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Mechanical Vibration ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Vibration Monitoring ◽  
Ambient Vibration ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been expected to improve the capability of capturing mechanical vibration dynamic behaviors and evaluating the current health status of equipment. While the expectation for mechanical vibration monitoring using WSNs has been high, one of the key limitations is the limited lifetime of batteries for sensor node. The energy harvesting technologies have been recently proposed. One of them shares the same main idea, that is, energy harvesting from ambient vibration can be converted into electric power. Employing the vibration energy harvesting, a novel self-powered wireless sensor node has been developed to measure mechanical vibration in this paper. The overall architecture of node is proposed. The wireless sensor node is described into four main components: the energy harvesting unit, the microprocessor unit, the radio transceiver unit, and accelerometer. Moreover, the software used to control the operation of wireless node is also suggested. At last, in order to achieve continuous self-powered for nodes, two operation modes including the charging mode and discharging mode are proposed. This design can effectively solve the problem of continuous supply power of sensor node for mechanical vibration monitoring.

Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Methodologies using Ambient Mechanical Vibration: Design perspective and challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Asthana ◽  
Gargi Khanna
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Mechanical Vibration ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
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And Performance

Background and Objective: Piezoelectric energy harvesting is an emergent research area for unobtrusive power supply for fully autonomous micro-scale devices. Method: The method of energy harvesting is to utilize waste ambient mechanical vibrations to generate electrical energy through piezoelectric effect. Results and Conclusion: The present work highlights the major advancement made in the field of micro-electromechanical systems based piezoelectric energy harvester to extract ambient vibrations and convert them into usable electric power. Present study explores energy harvesting approaches for portable electronics and self-powered wireless network nodes. The performance matrices like device physics, volume, operating frequencies, design and materials have been thoroughly analyzed in this work. Conventional cantilever fabrication steps have also been discussed. Finally, guidelines for future research and performance enhancements in the field of piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) at micro scale have been discussed.

scholarly journals Electro-Active Paper as a Flexible Mechanical Sensor, Actuator and Energy Harvesting Transducer: A Review

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif Khan ◽  
Faisal Raza Khan ◽  
Heung Soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Polyvinylidene Fluoride ◽  
Mechanical Vibration ◽  
Hybrid Nanocomposites ◽  
Vibration Sensor ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Energy Scavenging ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Bending Actuator

Electro-active paper (EAPap) is a cellulose-based smart material that has shown promising results in a variety of smart applications (e.g., vibration sensor, piezo-speaker, bending actuator) with the merits of being flexible, lightweight, fracture tolerant, biodegradable, naturally abundant, cheap, biocompatible, and with the ability to form hybrid nanocomposites. This paper presents a review of the characterization and application of EAPap as a flexible mechanical vibration/strain sensor, bending actuator, and vibration energy harvester. The working mechanism of EAPap is explained along with the various parameters and factors that influence the sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting capabilities of EAPap. Although the piezoelectricity of EAPap is comparable to that of commercially available polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), EAPap has the preferable merits in terms of natural abundance and ample capacity of chemical modification. The article would provide guidelines for the characterization and application of EAPap in mechanical sensing, actuation, and vibration energy scavenging, along with the possible limitations and future research prospects.

scholarly journals Vibration Bandgaps of Piezoelectric Metamaterial Plate with Local Resonators for Vibration Energy Harvesting

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongsheng Chen ◽  
Jing He ◽  
Gang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Plate Theory ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Structural Vibration ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
Bottle Neck ◽  
Self Powered

Embedded wireless sensing networks (WSNs) provide effective solutions for structural health monitoring (SHM), where how to provide long-term electric power is a bottle-neck problem. Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting (PVEH) has been widely studied to realize self-powered WSNs due to piezoelectric effect. Structural vibrations are usually variable and exist in the form of elastic waves, so cantilever-like harvesters are not appropriate. In this paper, one kind of two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric metamaterial plates with local resonators (PMP-LR) is investigated for structural vibration energy harvesting. In order to achieve low-frequency and broadband PVEH in SHM, it is highly necessary to study dynamic characteristics of PMP-LR, particularly bandgaps. Firstly, an analytical model is developed based on the Kirchhoff plate theory, and modal analysis is done by using the Rayleigh–Ritz method. Then, effects of geometric and material parameters on vibration bandgaps are analyzed by finite element-based simulations. In the end, experiments are carried out to validate the simulated results. The results demonstrate that the location of bandgaps can be easily adjusted by the design of local resonators. Therefore, the proposed method will provide an effective tool for optimizing local resonators in PMP-LR.

Scavenging Energy From Piezoelectric Materials for Wireless Sensor Applications

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Green ◽  
Karla M. Mossi ◽  
Robert G. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Wireless Sensors ◽  
Piezoelectric Materials ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Sinusoidal Vibration ◽  
Sensor Applications ◽  
Energy Harvesting Devices

Wireless sensors are an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the monitoring of simple and complex physical systems. Prior research has shown that one of the biggest issues with wireless sensors is power management. A wireless sensor is simply not cost effective unless it can maintain long battery life or harvest energy from another source. Piezoelectric materials are viable conversion mechanisms because of their inherent ability to covert vibrations to electrical energy. Currently a wide variety of piezoelectric materials are available and the appropriate choice for sensing, actuating, or harvesting energy depends on their characteristics and properties. This study focuses on evaluating and comparing three different types of piezoelectric materials as energy harvesting devices. The materials utilized consisted on PZT 5A, a single crystal PMN 32%PT, and a PZT 5A composite called Thunder. These materials were subjected to a steady sinusoidal vibration provided by a shaker at different power levels. Gain of the devices was measured at all levels as well as impedance in a range of frequencies was characterized. Results showed that the piezoelectric generator coefficient, g33, predicts the overall power output of the materials as verified by the experiments. These results constitute a baseline for an energy harvesting system that will become the front end of a wireless sensor network.

Hybrid nanogenerators for low frequency vibration energy harvesting and self-powered wireless locating

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 015510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Yuan ◽  
Hulin Zhang ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Yuhang Xie ◽  
Saeed Ahmed Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
Low Frequency Vibration ◽  
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