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Modeling a Wave Energy Harvester for Supplying Data Buoys

Applied Sciences
An energy harvester scavenging the kinetic energy of fluctuating waves for supplying small sea monitoring buoys is studied and tested. The harvester exploits a magnetic cylinder that rolls on a track due to the pitching motion of the buoy.
Alessandro Lo Schiavo, Filippo Nicora, Corrado Boragno   +2 more
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Nonlinear Energy Harvesting [PDF]

, 2013
The concept of harvesting electrical energy from ambient vibration sources has been a popular topic of research in recent years. The motivation behind this research is largely due to recent advancements in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS ...
Green, P.L.
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Design and Experimental Investigation of a Rotational Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with an Offset Distance from the Rotation Center

Micromachines, 2022
Rotational energy harvesting technology has attracted more and more attention recently. This paper presents a piezoelectric rotational energy harvester that can be mounted with an offset distance from the rotation center.
Jun Chen, Xiangfu Liu, Hengyang Wang, Sheng Wang, Mingjie Guan   +4 more
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Accelerated simulation of tunable vibration energy harvesting systems using a linearised state-space technique [PDF]

, 2011
This paper proposes a linearised state-space technique to accelerate the simulation of tunable vibration energy harvesting systems by at least two orders of magnitude.
Weddell, Alex, Merrett, Geoff, Wang, Leran, T J Kazmierski, A S Weddell, Ayala Garcia, Ivo, G V Merrett, Kazmierski, Tom, L Wang, Al-Hashimi, Bashir, B M Al-Hashimi, I N A Garcia   +11 more
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A Harvester with a Helix S-Type Vertical Axis to Capture Random Breeze Energy Efficiently

Micromachines, 2023
Breeze energy is a widely distributed renewable energy source in the natural world, but its efficient exploitation is very difficult. The conventional harvester with fixed arm length (HFA) has a relatively high start-up wind speed owing to its high and ...
Chao Zhang, Boren Zhang, Jintao Liang, Zhengfeng Ming, Tao Wen, Xinlong Yang   +5 more
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Comparative Study of Tapered Shape Bimorph Piezoelectric Energy Harvester via Finite Element Analysis

Forces in Mechanics, 2022
We report the power efficiency comparison of two tapered shape bimorph piezoelectric energy harvesters. Typically, the rectangular-shaped cantilever bimorph piezoelectric energy harvester is widely used in piezoelectric energy harvesting.
Md Nahid Hasan, MA Muktadir, Manjurul Alam   +2 more
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A miniature coupled bistable vibration energy harvester [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reports the design and test of a miniature coupled bistable vibration energy harvester. Operation of a bistable structure largely depends on vibration amplitude rather than frequency, which makes it very promising for wideband vibration energy
Zhu, Dibin, Beeby, S. P., Beeby, S.P., Zhu, D., Arthur, Derek, Arthur, D. C.   +5 more
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Shaft Integrated Electromagnetic Energy Harvester with Gravitational Torque

Designs, 2020
This paper presents the development of an electromagnetic energy harvester for electrical supply of a sensor unit integrated on the rotating inner ring of a rolling bearing.
Michel Ullrich, Maik Wolf, Mathias Rudolph, Wolfgang Diller   +3 more
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Tunable vibration energy harvester [PDF]

, 2013
Machinery condition monitoring is an established application for wireless sensor networks and energy harvesting technologies. However, vibration energy harvesters are generally applicable only to fixed-frequency vibration sources, as commercial vibration
Geoff V. Merrett, Zhu, Dibin, Weddell, Alex S., Merrett, Geoff V., Stephen P. Beeby, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Alex S. Weddell, Al-Hashimi, Bashir M., Beeby, Stephen P., Dibin Zhu   +9 more
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Wearable Device Oriented Flexible and Stretchable Energy Harvester Based on Embedded Liquid-Metal Electrodes and FEP Electret Film

Sensors, 2020
In this paper, a flexible and stretchable energy harvester based on liquid-metal and fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) electret films is proposed and implemented for the application of wearable devices.
Jianbing Xie, Yiwei Wang, Rong Dong, Kai Tao   +3 more
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