Anchorless Design of Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester for Railroad

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teng Lin ◽  
Lirong Wang ◽  
Lei Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvester ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Linear Vibration ◽  
Railroad Track ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Electromagnetic Vibration ◽  
High Pulse ◽  
Working Principle

An electromagnetic energy harvester features anchorless mounting is designed and analyzed. It can harness electrical energy from railroad track deflections induced by passing trains. Anchorless mounting is designed to be easily installed on railroad sleepers without any change to the original foundation, it utilize a spring reset mechanism to capture track motion. This structure eliminates the need of anchoring on the railroad and further reduces any potential risk to change the railroad construction. An energy harvesting mechanism named mechanical motion rectifier (MMR) is created to overcome challenge in harnessing energy from the high pulse-like impact and to transform bidirectional linear vibration into unidirectional rotational motion at high efficiency. Dynamic modeling of MMR and harvester are developed to reveal the working principle and verify overall design. The harvester is targeting at powering major track-side accessories or to be used as back-up power source to enhance track operational safety.

Design of Micro Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester and Storage System Based on Human Motion

2011 ◽  
Vol 328-330 ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Yu Bao Zhang ◽  
Hui Yun Cao ◽  
En Hui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Mechanical Vibration ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Electromagnetic Vibration

According to Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction,the electromagnetic vibration energy harvester can convert the mechanical vibration of human running or walking to electrical energy, the harvester output is through detection/rectification, two-stage of energy storage, stabilize voltage which is able to reach stable voltage of 4.2V,current of 355mA.The whole system doesn’t need external power supply, the electromagnetic vibration energy harvester has produced two part of the electric energy, a part used to storage, and another part provided power supply for circuit chips. Characteristic of the selected chip is low power and high stability. Analyzing the energy harvester’s structure and principles, a basic electronic circuit for storing the electrical energy is also introducing. The amount of output electrical energy about energy harvester is controlled by magnetic field strength, amplitude and frequency of human movement.

scholarly journals Inducing bistability with local electret technology in a microcantilever based non-linear vibration energy harvester

2013 ◽  
Vol 102 (15) ◽  
pp. 153901 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. López-Suárez ◽  
J. Agustí ◽  
F. Torres ◽  
R. Rurali ◽  
G. Abadal
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Linear Vibration ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Non Linear

An electromagnetic vibration energy harvester using a magnet-array-based vibration-to-rotation conversion mechanism

2022 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
pp. 115146
Author(s):  
Yifeng Wang ◽  
Peigen Wang ◽  
Shoutai Li ◽  
Mingyuan Gao ◽  
Huajiang Ouyang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Electromagnetic Vibration

scholarly journals Electromechanical Modeling and Simulation of Piezoelectric Vibration based Energy Harvester Interfaced with MPPT based Electrical Circuit using Matlab Simulink

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvester ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Electrical Circuit ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Matlab Simulink ◽  
Electromechanical Model ◽  
Wind Vibration ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Piezoelectric Vibration ◽  
High Output

Wind vibration based energy harvester using piezoelectric material has been of great concern to researchers for a long time for low power generation and applications. In this paper, wind generated vibrations are used to develop electromechanical model of piezoelectric vibration energy harvester to generate electrical output using MATLAB simulink and comparision has been drawn between an electromechanical model of piezoelectric harvester interfaced with P&O MPPT based electrical model and without it. It has been found that overall model with MPPT provides high output with high efficiency

scholarly journals Dynamic Modeling and Structural Optimization of a Bistable Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 2410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bei Zhang ◽  
Qichang Zhang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Jianxin Han ◽  
Xiaoli Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvester ◽  
Energy Harvesters ◽  
Electromagnetic Vibration ◽  
Magnetic Spring ◽  
Element Simulation ◽  
Nonlinear Galerkin Method ◽  
Simulation And Experiment ◽  
The Mathematical Model

A novel bistable electromagnetic vibration energy harvester (BEMH) is constructed and optimized in this study, based on a nonlinear system consisting mainly of a flexible membrane and a magnetic spring. A large-amplitude transverse vibration equation of the system is established with the general nonlinear geometry and magnetic force. Firstly, the mathematical model, considering the higher-order nonlinearities given by nonlinear Galerkin method, is applied to a membrane with a co-axial magnet mass and magnetic spring. Secondly, the steady vibration response of the membrane subjected to a harmonic base motion is obtained, and then the output power considering electromagnetic effect is analytically derived. On this basis, a parametric study in a broad frequency domain has been achieved for the BEMH with different radius ratios and membrane thicknesses. It is demonstrated that model predictions are both in close agreement with results from the finite element simulation and experiment data. Finally, the proposed efficient solution method is used to obtain an optimizing strategy for the design of multi-stable energy harvesters with the similar flexible structure.

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