Design and Testing of Wind Energy Harvester Based on PVDF

Abstract:

With an increasing concern about renewable resource, piezoelectricity has gained significant importance in research for extracting renewable resource from the environment. In this work, a piezoelectric energy harvester is developed, which composed of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and a fan structure, to generate electric power from wind energy. The voltage/power responses were evaluated when subjected to various wind speeds. Three laminated piezoelectric PVDF specimens were tested in this study. A series of experiments demonstrated a peak voltage 21.6v and a maximum power density 5.64mw/cm³ is generated respectively when the wind speed is 9m/s.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 613)
• Pages: 185-192
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.613.185
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Li Juan Guan, Feng Xian Bai*, Wei Jie Dong
• Keywords: Energy Harvesting, Power Density, PVDF, Wind Energy

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