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Performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester in actual rain

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  • Wong, Voon-Kean
  • Ho, Jee-Hou
  • Chai, Ai-Bao

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When raindrops impact on the surface of a piezoelectric beam, strain energy produced by the impinging raindrop will be converted to harvestable electrical energy by the piezoelectric layers in a cantilever beam. The novelty of this study is to investigate the performance of the harvester in actual rain and provide practical insights on implementation. The influences of rain parameters such as rain rate, rainfall depth, raindrop count, and drop size distribution (DSD) are discussed in this study. The raindrops accumulated on the surface of the piezoelectric beam will form a water layer. It is described using added mass coefficient in this study. In an actual rain experiment, a piezoelectric beam with surface area of 0.0018 m2 is able to produce 2076 μJ of energy over a duration of 301 min. The energy generation of a raindrop impact piezoelectric energy harvester is highly dependent on the rain rate. Due to the inconsistency of the energy generation, the piezoelectric energy harvester would require an integration of suitable energy storage device for continuous operation. Nevertheless, this work shows the feasibility of harvesting raindrop energy using a piezoelectric beam.

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  • Wong, Voon-Kean & Ho, Jee-Hou & Chai, Ai-Bao, 2017. "Performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester in actual rain," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 364-371.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:124:y:2017:i:c:p:364-371
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.02.015
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