scholarly journals Dual Piezoelectric Energy Investing and Harvesting Interface for High-Voltage Input

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2357
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilawal Khan ◽  
Hassan Saif ◽  
Kyoungho Lee ◽  
Yoonmyung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
High Voltage ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Storage Capacitor ◽  
Energy Extraction ◽  
Damping Force ◽  
Energy Investment ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Detection Energy

A novel harvesting interface for multiple piezoelectric transducers (PZTs) is proposed for high-voltage energy harvesting. Pre-biasing a PZT prior to its mechanical deformation increases its damping force, resulting in higher energy extraction. Unlike the conventional harvesters where a PZT-generated output is assumed to be continuous sinusoidal and output polarity is assumed to be alternating every cycle, PZT-generated output from human motion is expected to be random. Therefore, in the proposed approach, energy is invested to the PZT only when PZT deformation is detected. Upon the motion detection, energy stored at a storage capacitor (CSTOR) from earlier energy harvesting cycle is invested to pre-bias PZT, enhancing energy extraction. The harvested energy is transferred to back CSTOR for energy investment on the next cycle and then excess energy is transferred to the battery. In addition, partial electric charge extraction (PECE) is adapted to extract a partial amount of charges from the PZT every time its voltage approaches the process limit of 40 V. Simulations with 0.35 µm BCD process show 7.61× (with PECE only) and 8.38× (with PECE and energy investment) improvement compared to the conventional rectifier-based harvesting scheme Proposed harvesting interface successfully harvests energy from excitations with open-circuit voltages up to 100 V.

scholarly journals A Piezoelectric Harvesting Interface with Capacitive Partial Electric Charge Extraction for Energy Harvesting from Irregular High-Voltage Input

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1939
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilawal Khan ◽  
Hassan Saif ◽  
Yoonmyung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Electric Charge ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Peak Voltage ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Charge Extraction ◽  
Available Technology

A fully integrated piezoelectric energy harvesting interface is proposed for harvesting energy from irregular human motion. To handle irregular pulse inputs generated by the piezoelectric transducer (PZT), the proposed harvesting interface includes a wake-up controller that activates the harvesting interface only when human motion is detected and deformation is applied on the piezoelectric material, thereby keeping static power loss low. The PZT output voltage is increased to its peak voltage by removing any type of external load capacitance seen by the PZT during its deformation. Once the peak voltage is detected, a multi-voltage conversion-ratio-based switched-capacitor circuit is activated to transfer PZT-generated energy to the battery in multiple ratio steps to maximize the conversion efficiency, with the help of a carefully designed harvesting controller. To deal with open-circuit voltages (VOCS) higher than the maximum voltage tolerated (VMAX) by available technology, capacitive partial electric charge extraction is activated every time the PZT output voltage approaches the VMAX. The proposed harvesting interface extracts 3.37 times more energy than a conventional full-bridge rectifier-based harvesting scheme.

Broadband Rotational Energy Harvesting Using Micro Energy Harvester

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jui-Ta Chien ◽  
Yung-Hsing Fu ◽  
Chao-Ting Chen ◽  
Shun-Chiu Lin ◽  
Yi-Chung Shu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Rotational Energy ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Maximum Output ◽  
Rotational Excitation ◽  
Rotating Speed ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

This paper proposes a broadband rotational energy harvesting setup by using micro piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH). When driven in different rotating speed, the PEH can output relatively high power which exhibits the phenomenon of frequency up-conversion transforming the low frequency of rotation into the high frequency of resonant vibration. It aims to power self-powered devices used in the applications, like smart tires, smart bearings, and health monitoring sensors on rotational machines. Through the excitation of the rotary magnetic repulsion, the cantilever beam presents periodically damped oscillation. Under the rotational excitation, the maximum output voltage and power of PEH with optimal impedance is 28.2 Vpp and 663 μW, respectively. The output performance of the same energy harvester driven in ordinary vibrational based excitation is compared with rotational oscillation under open circuit condition. The maximum output voltage under 2.5g acceleration level of vibration is 27.54 Vpp while the peak output voltage of 36.5 Vpp in rotational excitation (in 265 rpm).

scholarly journals On Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Human Motion

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 155-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunhua Sun ◽  
Guangqing Shang ◽  
Hongbing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

Energy Harvesting Characteristics of Conical Shells

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Li ◽  
S. D. Hu ◽  
H. S. Tzou
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Conical Shell ◽  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Ambient Vibration ◽  
Circular Membrane ◽  
Shell Surface ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

Piezoelectric energy harvesting has experienced significant growth over the past few years. Various harvesting structures have been proposed to convert ambient vibration energies to electrical energy. However, these harvester’s base structures are mostly beams and some plates. Shells have great potential to harvest more energy. This study aims to evaluate a piezoelectric coupled conical shell based energy harvester system. Piezoelectric patches are laminated on the conical shell surface to convert vibration energy to electric energy. An open-circuit output voltage of the conical energy harvester is derived based on the thin-shell theory and the Donnel-Mushtari-Valsov theory. The open-circuit voltage and its derived energy consists of four components respectively resulting from the meridional and circular membrane strains, as well as the meridional and circular bending strains. Reducing the surface of the harvester to infinite small gives the spatial energy distribution on the shell surface. Then, the distributed modal energy harvesting characteristics of the proposed PVDF/conical shell harvester are evaluated in case studies. The results show that, for each mode with unit modal amplitude, the distribution depends on the mode shape, harvester location, and geometric parameters. The regions with high strain outputs yield higher modal energies. Accordingly, optimal locations for the PVDF harvester can be defined. Also, when modal amplitudes are specified, the overall energy of the conical shell harvester can be calculated.

Energy management based on fractional open circuit and P-SSHI techniques for piezoelectric energy harvesting

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manel Zouari ◽  
Slim Naifar ◽  
Ghada Bouattour ◽  
Nabil Derbel ◽  
Olfa Kanoun
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Point Tracking ◽  
Power Point Tracking ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Self Powered ◽  
Power Point

AbstractSelf-powered energy management circuits make energy harvesting converters more efficient and more reliable. This paper presents an improvement of a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique applied on a Parallel Synchronized Switch Harvesting on Inductor (P-SSHI) technique for piezoelectric vibration converters. The aims are to detect the unstable vibrational state, optimize the output voltage and maximize the output power of the piezoelectric transducer.First, the P-SSHI technique is implemented without an MPPT technique. Then, an MPPT technique based on Fractional Open Circuit (FOC) voltage method is implemented. An improvement of the FOC method is proposed to enhance the capability of the Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (PEH) system. The comparison between different simulation results shows that by using the same input parameters, the maximum efficiency for the PEH system based on the P-SSHI technique implemented without MPPT is 8.82 % whereas the maximum efficiency of the system based on the (FOC) voltage MPPT method is 13.77 %. A significant improvement of the PEH system is obtained by using the modified (FOC) method, where the efficiency reached 24.59 %.

scholarly journals Implementation and Validation of a Two-Stage Energy Extraction Circuit for a Self Sustained Asset-Tracking System

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Dorsch ◽  
Toni Bartsch ◽  
Florian Hubert ◽  
Heinrich Milosiu ◽  
Stefan Rupitsch
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Energy Extraction ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Asset Tracking ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Radio Signals ◽  
The One

We present a two-stage energy extraction circuit for a piezoelectric energy harvester, powering an asset-tracking system. Exploiting accelerations generated by many logistic transport devices, e.g., pushcarts, forklifts, assembly belts or cars, we are able to harvest sufficient electrical energy to transmit radio signals, which will allow to track an object when it is moving. Accelerations in logistic applications are non-sinusoidal and lead to high open-circuit voltages, which demand a special adaption of the energy extraction network. We evaluate the performance of several state-of-the-art energy extraction networks and compare those to the performance of our two-stage approach under various excitation conditions. By using the proposed energy extraction circuit, the transmission rate could be increased from four to six transmissions per second for sinusoidal excitations with an open-circuit-voltage of 60 V . In the practical use-case, the two-stage energy extraction network performs more than two times better compared to the one-stage and synchronized switching harvesting with inductor approach.

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