EE- ENERGY HARVESTING

UNIT I: Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

Energy harvesting basics, case study: piezoelectric plates bonded to long piezoelectric materials, piezoelectric
polycrystalline, piezoelectric single crystal materials, piezoelectric and electrostrictive polymers piezoelectric
thin films, piezoelectric transducers, meso-macro-scale energy harvesters, mechanical energy harvester using
laser, mechanical energy harvester using piezoelectric fibers piezoelectric micro generator energy harvesting
circuits strategies for enhancing the performance of energy harvester, multi-modal energy harvesting , magneto
electric composites, self-tuning, frequency pumping, wide-bandwidth transducers, border security sensors

UNIT II: Performance Evaluation of Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy Scavengers
Piezoelectric bulk power generators, piezoelectric micro power generators, conversion efficiency and
electrically induced damping, power storage circuits, standard ACDC harvesting circuit, SSHI-harvesting
circuit, basics of gravitational and rotational energy harvesting.

UNIT III: Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting
Basic principles, wire-wound coil properties, micro-fabricated coils, magnetic materials, scaling of
electromagnetic vibration generators, scaling of electromagnetic damping, maximising power from an EM
generator, micro scale implementations, macro-scale implementations, commercial devices

UNIT IV: Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
Harvesting heat, thermoelectric generators, design of a thermoelectric energy harvester, general considerations,
thermoelectric efficiency, matched thermal resistance, heat flux, matching thermo electrics to heat exchangers,
thin film devices, basic thermoelectric theory, device effective, system level design, system optimization for
maximum power output, design considerations for maximizing voltage fabrication of TFB, performance of TFB

UNIT V: Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors
Background, tracking helicopter component loads with energy harvesting wireless sensors, monitoring large
bridge spans with solar-powered wireless sensors.

REFERENCES :
1.Energy Harvesting Technologies , Shashank Priya and Dan J. Inmani, Spriger Publications.
2. Energy Harvesting System: Principal, Modelling and Application , Tom J. Kazmierski and Steeve Beeby,
Spriger fgPublications.
2. Related Research papers.