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A study on the underwater energy harvesting characteristics of a funnel type macro fiber composite energy harvester (수중에서 퍼넬형 macro fiber composite 에너지 하베스터의 에너지 수확 특성)

  • Jongkil Lee;Jinhyo An
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, it was investigated how the amount of energy harvesting will be varied from the FTEH which has inlet area is wider than outer area and attaching cantilever type MFC (Macro Fiber Composite) using by theoretical and experimental approaches. When MFC length increased 50 % vibration displacement also increased 3.5 times. When thickness decreased vibration displacement increased 30.9 times. In underwater tank experiments FTEH with spiral screw, flexible support, vertical direction fabrication cases showed maximum energy harvesting more 5 times than the case of MFC installed horizontally without spiral screws and on rigid supports. When the flow speed of 0.24 m/s FTEH's optimal resistance applied 4,10 kΩ, energy storage in the capacitor was measured 4 ㎼·s during 350 seconds. It was confirmed that the charging energy can be increased by lengthening the capacitor charging time of the large-area MFC installed vertically on the flexible support at high flow speed.

A study of vibration energy harvesting for the bimorph piezoelectric sensor (바이몰프 압전센서의 진동에너지 수확에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong-Hyuk
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.313-319
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    • 2010
  • Vibration energy harvesting is an attractive technique for potential powering of low power devices such as wireless sensors and portable electronic applications. Most energy generator developed to date are single vibration frequency based, and while some efforts have been made to broaden the frequency range of energy harvester. In this work, The effect of energy harvesting were investigated at various vibration frequencies, vibration beams, vibration point and test masses. The maximum output voltage of the bimorph piezoelectric cantilever was shifted according to vibration point. Vibration frequency with maximum output voltage decreased with the increasing length of vibration beam and increasing test mass. The sample with vibration beam length 0.5 L generated a peak output voltage of 32 $V_{rms}$ and shows a 45 % increase in voltage output in comparison to the corresponding original bimorph. It was found that a piezoelectric bimorph has a possibility to be as the energy harvesting cantilever, which is successfully tuned over a vibration frequency range to enable a maximum harvesting energy.

Design Optimization Process for Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesters Using Finite Element Analysis (유한요소 해석을 이용한 전자기형 진동 에너지 하베스터의 최적설계 프로세스)

  • Lee, Hanmin;Kim, Young-Cheol;Lim, Jaewon;Park, Seong-Whan;Seo, Jongho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.24 no.10
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    • pp.809-816
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents a systematic optimization process for designing an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester using FEA(finite element analysis) to improve computational accuracy and efficiency. A static FEA is used in the optimization process where trend analysis in a short period of time is rather important than precise computation, while a dynamic FEA is used in the verification step for the final result where precise computation is more important. An electromechanical transduction factor can be calculated efficiently by using an approach to use the radial component of magnetic flux density directly instead of an approach to compute the flux density gradient. The proposed optimization process was verified through a case study where simulation and experiment results were compared.