A High Efficient Piezoelectric Windmill using Magnetic Force for Low Wind Speed in Wireless Sensor Networks

Autor: Jeongpil Jhun, Wonseop Hwang, Seong Do Hong, Tae Hyun Sung, Sinwoo Jeong, Hong Hee Yoo, Chan Ho Yang, Yewon Song, Sang Bum Woo
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of the Korean Physical Society. 73:1889-1894
ISSN: 1976-8524
0374-4884
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.73.1889
Popis: An innovative small-scale piezoelectric energy harvester has been proposed to gather wind energy. A conventional horizontal-axis wind power generation has a low generating efficiency at low wind speed. To overcome this weakness, we designed a piezoelectric windmill optimized at low-speed wind. A piezoelectric device having high energy conversion efficiency is used in a small windmill. The maximum output power of the windmill was about 3.14 mW when wind speed was 1.94 m/s. Finally, the output power and the efficiency of the system were compared with a conventional wind power system. This work will be beneficial for the piezoelectric energy harvesting technology to be applied to the real world such as wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Databáze: OpenAIRE