Experimental Study of a Piezoelectric Rain Energy Harvester

Voon Kean Wong; Jee Hou Ho; Eng Hwa Yap

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1043.263

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Experimental Study of a Piezoelectric Rain Energy Harvester

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Over the past few decades there has been significant advancement in the development of microelectronics. This has attracted attention of micro-scale energy harvester systems that could harvest energy from the operating environment of the microsystem. In this paper, rain energy harvesting using piezoelectric beam is tested. This paper seeks to create an experimentally validated proof of concept piezoelectric rain energy harvester using a piezoelectric beam. A rain simulator consists of six solenoid valves is designed to simulate different rain types. The effect of multiple water droplets impinging different positions on the piezoelectric beam is studied in this paper. Results show that a 4.5 ± 0.2 mm diameter water droplet falling at height of 0.82 m impinging the piezoelectric energy harvester is capable of generating a peak power of 0.16 mW.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1043)

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Voon Kean Wong*, Jee Hou Ho, Eng Hwa Yap

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Piezoelectric Beam, Rain Energy Harvester, Water Droplet

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