IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/appene/v323y2022ics0306261922009485.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Bioinspired butterfly wings triboelectric nanogenerator with drag amplification for multidirectional underwater-wave energy harvesting

Author

Listed:
  • Wang, Xinxian
  • Gao, Qi
  • Zhu, Mingkang
  • Wang, Jianlong
  • Zhu, Jianyang
  • Zhao, Hongwei
  • Wang, Zhong Lin
  • Cheng, Tinghai

Abstract

Underwater-wave energy, as a kind of abundant but neglected renewable energy, is challenging to be efficiently harvested due to the low frequency and random moving direction. In this work, a bioinspired butterfly wings triboelectric nanogenerator (BBW-TENG) is proposed for multidirectional wave energy harvesting from the underwater environment, which is composed of a shell with bionic blades and the generation units. The parameters for the shape and number of blades are analyzed by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to determine the optimal structural parameters and verify that the bionic blades have the characteristic of drag amplification. What’s more, the BBW-TENG responds sensitively to the multidirectional underwater-wave excitation, which demonstrates the ability to harvest multidirectional and low-frequency underwater-wave energy. The output performance of 400 V, 2.9 µA, and 0.31 µC can be generated with the frequency of 1.25 Hz. In practical applications, it is verified that the BBW-TENG can provide power supply for the electronic devices. And the BBW-TENG immersed in water for 45 days indicates excellent durability without diminished electrical performance. Therefore, this work gives a new approach of harvesting underwater-wave energy to long-term power supply for the distributed sensors.

Suggested Citation

  • Wang, Xinxian & Gao, Qi & Zhu, Mingkang & Wang, Jianlong & Zhu, Jianyang & Zhao, Hongwei & Wang, Zhong Lin & Cheng, Tinghai, 2022. "Bioinspired butterfly wings triboelectric nanogenerator with drag amplification for multidirectional underwater-wave energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 323(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:323:y:2022:i:c:s0306261922009485
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119648
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261922009485
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119648?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Tao Wang & Yunce Zhang, 2018. "Design, Analysis, and Evaluation of a Compact Electromagnetic Energy Harvester from Water Flow for Remote Sensors," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-14, June.
    2. Hu, Yanqiang & Wang, Xiaoli & Qin, Yechen & Li, Zhihao & Wang, Chenfei & Wu, Heng, 2022. "A robust hybrid generator for harvesting vehicle suspension vibration energy from random road excitation," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 309(C).
    3. Zhong Lin Wang, 2017. "Catch wave power in floating nets," Nature, Nature, vol. 542(7640), pages 159-160, February.
    4. Jeff Tollefson, 2014. "Power from the oceans: Blue energy," Nature, Nature, vol. 508(7496), pages 302-304, April.
    5. Li, Xiang & Cao, Yuying & Yu, Xin & Xu, Yuhong & Yang, Yanfei & Liu, Shiming & Cheng, Tinghai & Wang, Zhong Lin, 2022. "Breeze-driven triboelectric nanogenerator for wind energy harvesting and application in smart agriculture," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 306(PA).
    6. Li Long & Wenlin Liu & Zhao Wang & Wencong He & Gui Li & Qian Tang & Hengyu Guo & Xianjie Pu & Yike Liu & Chenguo Hu, 2021. "High performance floating self-excited sliding triboelectric nanogenerator for micro mechanical energy harvesting," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    7. Wang, Anqun & Chen, Jun & Wang, Li & Han, Junlei & Su, Weiguang & Li, Anqing & Liu, Pengbo & Duan, Liya & Xu, Chonghai & Zeng, Zheng, 2022. "Numerical analysis and experimental study of an ocean wave tetrahedral triboelectric nanogenerator," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 307(C).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Pang, Yafeng & Zhu, Xingyi & Jin, Yiyang & Yang, Zichao & Liu, Shuainian & Shen, Lingjie & Li, Xinhong & Lee, Chengkuo, 2023. "Textile-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator as intelligent pavement energy harvester and self-powered skid resistance sensor," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 348(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Zhu, Mingkang & Zhang, Jiacheng & Wang, Zhaohui & Yu, Xin & Zhang, Yuejun & Zhu, Jianyang & Wang, Zhong Lin & Cheng, Tinghai, 2022. "Double-blade structured triboelectric–electromagnetic hybrid generator with aerodynamic enhancement for breeze energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 326(C).
    2. Fan, Kangqi & Chen, Chenggen & Zhang, Baosen & Li, Xiang & Wang, Zhen & Cheng, Tinghai & Lin Wang, Zhong, 2022. "Robust triboelectric-electromagnetic hybrid nanogenerator with maglev-enabled automatic mode transition for exploiting breeze energy," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 328(C).
    3. Qi, Youchao & Kuang, Yang & Liu, Yaoyao & Liu, Guoxu & Zeng, Jianhua & Zhao, Junqing & Wang, Lu & Zhu, Meiling & Zhang, Chi, 2022. "Kirigami-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator as ultra-wide-band vibrational energy harvester and self-powered acceleration sensor," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 327(C).
    4. Cai, Qinlin & Zhu, Songye, 2021. "Applying double-mass pendulum oscillator with tunable ultra-low frequency in wave energy converters," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 298(C).
    5. Chen, Shun & Zhao, Liya, 2023. "A quasi-zero stiffness two degree-of-freedom nonlinear galloping oscillator for ultra-low wind speed aeroelastic energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 331(C).
    6. Ali Matin Nazar & King-James Idala Egbe & Azam Abdollahi & Mohammad Amin Hariri-Ardebili, 2021. "Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting in Ocean: A Review on Application and Hybridization," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-33, September.
    7. Li, Zhongjie & Peng, Yan & Xu, Zhibing & Peng, Jinlin & Xin, Liming & Wang, Min & Luo, Jun & Xie, Shaorong & Pu, Huayan, 2021. "Harnessing energy from suspension systems of oceanic vehicles with high-performance piezoelectric generators," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 228(C).
    8. Mai, Van-Phung & Lee, Tsung-Yu & Yang, Ruey-Jen, 2022. "Enhanced-performance droplet-triboelectric nanogenerators with composite polymer films and electrowetting-assisted charge injection," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 260(C).
    9. Li, Yanhong & Guo, Ziting & Zhao, Zhihao & Gao, Yikui & Yang, Peiyuan & Qiao, Wenyan & Zhou, Linglin & Wang, Jie & Wang, Zhong Lin, 2023. "Multi-layered triboelectric nanogenerator incorporated with self-charge excitation for efficient water wave energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 336(C).
    10. Nitin Satpute & Marek Iwaniec & Joanna Iwaniec & Manisha Mhetre & Swapnil Arawade & Siddharth Jabade & Marian Banaś, 2023. "Triboelectric Nanogenerator-Based Vibration Energy Harvester Using Bio-Inspired Microparticles and Mechanical Motion Amplification," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-22, January.
    11. V., Vipin & Koley, Santanu, 2022. "Mathematical modeling of a submerged piezoelectric wave energy converter device installed over an undulated seabed," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 200(C), pages 1382-1392.
    12. Li, Yunfei & Ma, Xin & Tang, Tianyi & Zha, Fusheng & Chen, Zhaohui & Liu, Huicong & Sun, Lining, 2022. "High-efficient built-in wave energy harvesting technology: From laboratory to open ocean test," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 322(C).
    13. Muhammed Zafar Ali Khan & Haider Ali Khan & Muhammad Aziz, 2022. "Harvesting Energy from Ocean: Technologies and Perspectives," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-43, May.
    14. Chaojie Chen & Shilong Zhao & Caofeng Pan & Yunlong Zi & Fangcheng Wang & Cheng Yang & Zhong Lin Wang, 2022. "A method for quantitatively separating the piezoelectric component from the as-received “Piezoelectric” signal," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    15. Çelebi, Samet & Kocakulak, Tolga & Demir, Usame & Ergen, Gökhan & Yilmaz, Emre, 2023. "Optimizing the effect of a mixture of light naphtha, diesel and gasoline fuels on engine performance and emission values on an HCCI engine," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 330(PB).
    16. Castellano-Aldave, Carlos & Carlosena, Alfonso & Iriarte, Xabier & Plaza, Aitor, 2023. "Ultra-low frequency multidirectional harvester for wind turbines," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 334(C).
    17. Lin Xu & Md Al Mahadi Hasan & Heting Wu & Ya Yang, 2021. "Electromagnetic–Triboelectric Hybridized Nanogenerators," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-27, September.
    18. Li, Zhongjie & Zhao, Li & Wang, Junlei & Yang, Zhengbao & Peng, Yan & Xie, Shaorong & Ding, Jiheng, 2023. "Piezoelectric energy harvesting from extremely low-frequency vibrations via gravity induced self-excited resonance," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 546-555.
    19. Fan, Kangqi & Wang, Chenyu & Zhang, Yan & Guo, Jiyuan & Li, Rongchun & Wang, Fei & Tan, Qinxue, 2023. "Modeling and experimental verification of a pendulum-based low-frequency vibration energy harvester," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 211(C), pages 100-111.
    20. Fan, Kangqi & Qu, Hengheng & Wu, Yipeng & Wen, Tao & Wang, Fei, 2020. "Design and development of a rotational energy harvester for ultralow frequency vibrations and irregular human motions," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 156(C), pages 1028-1039.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:323:y:2022:i:c:s0306261922009485. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405891/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.