Experimental Investigation of Complex System for Electrical Energy Harvesting and Vibration Isolation

In recent years, we have experienced extreme climate changes due to the global warming, continuously impacting and changing our daily lives. To build a sustainable environment and society, various energy technologies have been developed and introduced. Among them, energy harvesting, converting ambient environmental energy into electrical energy, has emerged as one of the promising technologies for a variety of energy applications. In particular, a photo (electro) catalytic water splitting system, coupled with emerging energy harvesting technology, has demonstrated high device performance, demonstrating its great social impact for the development of the new water splitting system. In this review article, we introduce and discuss in detail the emerging energy-harvesting technology for photo (electro) catalytic water splitting applications. The article includes fundamentals of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic water splitting and water splitting applications coupled with the emerging energy-harvesting technologies using piezoelectric, piezo-phototronic, pyroelectric, triboelectric, and photovoltaic effects. We comprehensively deal with different mechanisms in water splitting processes with respect to the energy harvesting processes and their effect on the water splitting systems. Lastly, new opportunities in energy harvesting-assisted water splitting are introduced together with future research directions that need to be investigated for further development of new types of water splitting systems.

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Experimental investigation into energy harvesting of NaCl droplet flow over graphene supported by silicon dioxide

Energy ◽

10.1016/j.energy.2021.120715 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 229 ◽

pp. 120715

Author(s):

Chih-Chang Chang ◽

Wei-Hao Huang ◽

Van-Phung Mai ◽

Jia-Shiuan Tsai ◽

Ruey-Jen Yang

Keyword(s):

Experimental Investigation ◽

Energy Harvesting ◽

Silicon Dioxide ◽

Droplet Flow

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Experimental Research of Energy Harvesting and Storage Based on Ferroelectric Materials

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.476-478.1336 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 476-478 ◽

pp. 1336-1340

Author(s):

Kai Feng Li ◽

Rong Liu ◽

Lin Xiang Wang

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Electromagnetic Waves ◽

Vibrational Energy ◽

Waste Heat ◽

Mechanical Strain ◽

Electrical Potential ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

Ferroelectric Materials ◽

Energy Scavenging ◽

And Storage

The concept of energy harvesting works towards developing self-powered devices that do not require replaceable power supplies. Energy scavenging devices are designed to capture the ambient energy surrounding the electronics and convert it into usable electrical energy. A number of sources of harvestable ambient energy exist, including waste heat, vibration, electromagnetic waves, wind, flowing water, and solar energy. While each of these sources of energy can be effectively used to power remote sensors, the structural and biological communities have placed an emphasis on scavenging vibrational energy with ferroelectric materials. Ferroelectric materials have a crystalline structure that provide a unique ability to convert an applied electrical potential into a mechanical strain or vice versa. Based on the properties of the material, this paper investigates the technique of power harvesting and storage.

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Energy Harvesting Under Harsh Conditions for the Oil & Gas Upstream Industry

10.2118/204877-ms ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

José Correia ◽

Cátia Rodrigues ◽

Ricardo Esteves ◽

Ricardo Cesar Bezerra de Melo ◽

José Gutiérrez ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

Development Stage ◽

Gas Extraction ◽

Power Monitoring ◽

Operational Conditions ◽

Wide Range ◽

First Time ◽

Harsh Conditions

Abstract Environmental and safety sensing is becoming of high importance in the oil and gas upstream industry. However, present solutions to feed theses sensors are expensive and dangerous and there is so far no technology able to generate electrical energy in the operational conditions of oil and gas extraction wells. In this paper it is presented, for the first time in a relevant environment, a pioneering energy harvesting technology based on nanomaterials that takes advantage of fluid movement in oil extraction wells. A device was tested to power monitoring systems with locally harvested energy in harsh conditions environment (pressures up to 50 bar and temperatures of 50ºC). Even though this technology is in an early development stage this work opens a wide range of possible applications in deep underwater environments and in Oil and Gas extraction wells where continuous flow conditions are present.

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A Creative Vibration Energy Harvesting System to Support a Self-Powered Internet of Thing (IoT) Network in Smart Bridge Monitoring

Volume 2B: Advanced Manufacturing ◽

10.1115/imece2020-23674 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Saman Farhangdoust ◽

Claudia Mederos ◽

Behrouz Farkiani ◽

Armin Mehrabi ◽

Hossein Taheri ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Cantilever Beam ◽

Average Power ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

Laser Vibrometer ◽

Stay Cable ◽

Fe Modelling ◽

Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽

Piezoelectric Energy ◽

Energy Harvesting System

Abstract This paper presents a creative energy harvesting system using a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever-beam to power wireless sensors in an IoT network for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The bimorph piezoelectric energy harvester (BPEH) comprises a cantilever beam as a substrate sandwiched between two piezoelectric layers to remarkably harness ambient vibrations of an inclined stay cable and convert them into electrical energy when the cable is subjected to a harmonic acceleration. To investigate and design the bridge energy harvesting system, a field measurement was required for collecting cable vibration data. The results of a non-contact laser vibrometer is used to remotely measure the dynamic characteristics of the inclined cables. A finite element study is employed to simulate a 3-D model of the proposed BPEH by COMSOL Multiphasics. The FE modelling results showed that the average power generated by the BPEH excited by a harmonic acceleration of 1 m/s2 at 1 Hz is up to 614 μW which satisfies the minimum electric power required for the sensor node in the proposed IoT network. In this research a LoRaWAN architecture is also developed to utilize the BPEH as a sustainable and sufficient power resource for an IoT platform which uses wireless sensor networks installed on the bridge stay cables to collect and remotely transfer bridge health monitoring data over the bridge in a low-power manner.

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Experimental investigation of the vibration-isolation characteristic of sawdust

Experimental Mechanics ◽

10.1007/bf02324374 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 2 (9) ◽

pp. 274-277

Author(s):

Ahmed Ezzat

Keyword(s):

Experimental Investigation ◽

Vibration Isolation

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Design of mechanical metamaterials for simultaneous vibration isolation and energy harvesting

Applied Physics Letters ◽

10.1063/1.5008674 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 111 (25) ◽

pp. 251903 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Ying Li ◽

Evan Baker ◽

Timothy Reissman ◽

Cheng Sun ◽

Wing Kam Liu

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Vibration Isolation ◽

Mechanical Metamaterials

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Energy Harvesting for Smart Shoes: A Real Life Application

Volume 4: 18th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference; 2013 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications ◽

10.1115/detc2013-12310 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Emanuele Frontoni ◽

Adriano Mancini ◽

Primo Zingaretti ◽

Andrea Gatto

Keyword(s):

Energy Harvesting ◽

Power Efficiency ◽

Indoor Localization ◽

Electrical Power ◽

Real Life ◽

Reducing Power ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

General Purpose ◽

Technical Developments ◽

Microprocessor Technology

Advanced technical developments have increased the efficiency of devices in capturing trace amounts of energy from the environment (such as from human movements) and transforming them into electrical energy (e.g., to instantly charge mobile devices). In addition, advancements in microprocessor technology have increased power efficiency, effectively reducing power consumption requirements. In combination, these developments have sparked interest in the engineering community to develop more and more applications that utilize energy harvesting for power. The approach here described aims to designing and manufacturing an innovative easy-to-use and general-purpose device for energy harvesting in general purpose shoes. The novelty of this device is the integration of polymer and ceramic piezomaterials accomplished by injection molding. In this spirit, this paper examines different devices that can be built into a shoe, (where excess energy is readily harvested) and used for generating electrical power while walking. A Main purpose is the development of an indoor localization system embedded in shoes that periodically broadcasts a digital RFID as the bearer walks. Results are encouraging and real life test are conducted on the first series of prototypes.

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