Harvesting energy from airflow with a michromachined piezoelectric harvester inside a Helmholtz resonator
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In this paper we report an airflow energy harvester that combines a piezoelectric energy harvester with a Helmholtz resonator. The resonator converts airflow energy to air oscillations which in turn are converted into electrical energy by a piezoelectric harvester. Two Helmholtz resonators with adjustable resonance frequencies have been designed - one with a solid bottom and one with membrane on the bottom. The resonance frequencies of the resonators were matched to the complementing piezoelectric harvesters during harvesting. The aim of the presented work is a feasibility study on using packaged piezoelectric energy harvesters with Helmholtz resonators for airflow energy harvesting. The maximum energy we were able to obtain was 42.2 νW at 20 m s\-1. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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TNO Identifier
461413
ISSN
09601317
Source
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 21(10)
Article nr.
No.: 104001
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