Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2017.66.7.1059

A Study of Power Conversion System for Energy Harvester Using a Piezoelectric Materials  

An, Hyunsung (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Young-Cheol (System Dynamics Research Laboratory, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials)
Cha, Hanju (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Publication Information
The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.66, no.7, 2017 , pp. 1059-1065 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the energy harvester with a piezoelectric materials is modeled as the electric equivalent circuit, and performances of a standard DC method and a Parallel-SSHI method are verified through experiment under variable force and load conditions. Piezoelectric generator consists of mass, damper and spring constant, and it is modeled by electrical equivalent circuit with RLC components. Standard DC and Parallel-SSHI are used as power conversion methods, and standard DC consists of full-bridge rectifier and smoothing capacitor. Parallel-SSHI method is composed of L-C resonant circuit, zero-crossing detector and full-bridge rectifier. In case of simulation under $100k{\Omega}$ load condition, the harvested power is $500{\mu}W$ in Standard DC and $670{\mu}W$ in Parallel-SSHI, respectively. In experiment, the harvested power under $100k{\Omega}$ load condition is $420{\mu}W$ in standard DC and $602{\mu}W$ in Parallel-SSHI. Harvested power of Parallel-SSHI is improved by approximately 40% more than that of standard DC method.
Keywords
Energy harvester; Piezoelectric generator; Standard DC; Parallel-SSHI;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 M. Triches, F. Wang, A. Crovetto, A. Lei, Q. You, X. Zhang, Ole A, MEMS "Energy Harvesting Device for Vibration with Low Acceleration", Procedia Engineering, Vol. 47, 2012, pp. 770-773.   DOI
2 Shengwen Xu, Khai D. T. Ngo, Toshikazu Nishida, Gyo-Bum Chung, Attma Sharma, "Low Frequency Pulsed Resonant Converter for Energy Harvesting", IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 22, No. 1, Jan., 2007, pp. 63-68.   DOI
3 Anton, SR and Sodano, HA "A review of power harvesting using piezoelectric materials". Smart Mater. Struct. 16, pp. R1-R21, 2007.   DOI
4 S P Beeby, M J Tudor, N M White, "Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications", Meas. Sci. Tech., Vol. 17, No. 12 : R175-R195, 2006.   DOI
5 Chen QX and Payne DA, "Industrial applications of piezoelectric polymer transducers", Meas. Sci. Tech. 6, pp. 249-267. 1995.   DOI
6 Mohammad Adnan Ilyas, Jonathan Swingler, "Piezoelectric energy harvesting from raindrop impacts", Energy, Vol. 90, 2015, pp. 796-806.   DOI
7 Y C Shu and I C Lien, "Analysis of power output for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems", Smart Materials and Structures 15, pp. 1499-1512. 2006.   DOI
8 E. Lefeuvre, A. Bader, C. Richard, D. Guyomar, "Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Device Optimization by Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction", Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 16, Oct., 2005.
9 E. Arroyo, A. Badel, "Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesting Device Optimization by Synchronous Energy Extraction", Sensors and Actuators A : Physical, Vol. 171, Issue 2, November, 2011, pp. 266-273.   DOI
10 D. Zhu, M. Tudor, S. Beeby, "Strategies for increasing the operating frequency range of vibration energy harvesters", Meas. Sci. 21, 2010.