IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v14y2021i16p5077-d616688.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Split Cantilever Multi-Resonant Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Low-Frequency Application

Author

Listed:
  • David Omooria Masara

    (School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, University of Eldoret, Eldoret 1125-30100, Kenya
    Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, El-Chatby, Alexandria 21544, Egypt)

  • Hassan El Gamal

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, El-Chatby, Alexandria 21544, Egypt)

  • Ossama Mokhiamar

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, El-Chatby, Alexandria 21544, Egypt)

Abstract

This paper presents a new way to design a broadband harvester for harvesting high energy over a low-frequency range of 10–15 Hz. The design comprises a cantilever beam with two parallel grooves to form three dissimilar length parallel branches, each with an unequal concentrated tip mass. The piezoelectric material covers the whole length on both sides of the beam to form a bimorph. Appropriate geometry and mass magnitudes are obtained by a parametric study using the Finite Element Method. The design was simulated in COMSOL Multiphysics to study its response. The first three bending modes were utilized in energy harvesting, resulting in three power peaks at their respective fundamental frequencies. The adequate load resistance determined was 5.62 kΩ, at which maximum power can be harvested. The proposed harvester was compared to two other harvesters presented in the literature for validation: First, an optimized conventional harvester while the proposed harvester is operating at adequate load resistance. Second, a multimodal harvester, while the proposed harvester is operating at a 10 kΩ load. The suggested harvester proved to be more efficient by harvesting sufficiently higher broadband energy and is applicable in a wide range of vibration environments because of its adaptability in design.

Suggested Citation

  • David Omooria Masara & Hassan El Gamal & Ossama Mokhiamar, 2021. "Split Cantilever Multi-Resonant Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Low-Frequency Application," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-15, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:16:p:5077-:d:616688
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/16/5077/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/16/5077/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Iman Izadgoshasb & Yee Yan Lim & Ricardo Vasquez Padilla & Mohammadreza Sedighi & Jeremy Paul Novak, 2019. "Performance Enhancement of a Multiresonant Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Low Frequency Vibrations," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-16, July.
    2. Zhao, Liya & Yang, Yaowen, 2018. "An impact-based broadband aeroelastic energy harvester for concurrent wind and base vibration energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 233-243.
    3. Wei, Chongfeng & Jing, Xingjian, 2017. "A comprehensive review on vibration energy harvesting: Modelling and realization," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 1-18.
    4. Sun, Rujie & Li, Qinyu & Yao, Jianfei & Scarpa, Fabrizio & Rossiter, Jonathan, 2020. "Tunable, multi-modal, and multi-directional vibration energy harvester based on three-dimensional architected metastructures," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 264(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. Fariha Rubaiya & Swati Mohan & Bhupendra B. Srivastava & Horacio Vasquez & Karen Lozano, 2021. "Piezoelectric Properties of PVDF-Zn 2 GeO 4 Fine Fiber Mats," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-15, September.
    2. Guo, Lukai & Wang, Hao, 2023. "Multi-physics modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters from vibrations for improved cantilever designs," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 263(PC).

    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. Silva-Leon, Jorge & Cioncolini, Andrea & Nabawy, Mostafa R.A. & Revell, Alistair & Kennaugh, Andrew, 2019. "Simultaneous wind and solar energy harvesting with inverted flags," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(C), pages 846-858.
    2. Zhang, L.B. & Dai, H.L. & Abdelkefi, A. & Lin, S.X. & Wang, L., 2019. "Theoretical modeling, wind tunnel measurements, and realistic environment testing of galloping-based electromagnetic energy harvesters," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 254(C).
    3. Muhammad Abdullah Sheeraz & Muhammad Sohail Malik & Khalid Rehman & Hassan Elahi & Zubair Butt & Iftikhar Ahmad & Marco Eugeni & Paolo Gaudenzi, 2021. "Numerical Assessment and Parametric Optimization of a Piezoelectric Wind Energy Harvester for IoT-Based Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-19, April.
    4. Salazar, R. & Serrano, M. & Abdelkefi, A., 2020. "Fatigue in piezoelectric ceramic vibrational energy harvesting: A review," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 270(C).
    5. Huguet, Thomas & Badel, Adrien & Druet, Olivier & Lallart, Mickaël, 2018. "Drastic bandwidth enhancement of bistable energy harvesters: Study of subharmonic behaviors and their stability robustness," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 226(C), pages 607-617.
    6. Latif, Usman & Younis, M. Yamin & Idrees, Saad & Uddin, Emad & Abdelkefi, Abdessattar & Munir, Adnan & Zhao, Ming, 2023. "Synergistic analysis of wake effect of two cylinders on energy harvesting characteristics of piezoelectric flag," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
    7. Zhang, L.B. & Dai, H.L. & Abdelkefi, A. & Wang, L., 2019. "Experimental investigation of aerodynamic energy harvester with different interference cylinder cross-sections," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 970-981.
    8. 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).
    9. Xiaobiao Shan & Haigang Tian & Han Cao & Tao Xie, 2020. "Enhancing Performance of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester System for Concurrent Flutter and Vortex-Induced Vibration," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-19, June.
    10. Mahdi Zareei & Cesar Vargas-Rosales & Mohammad Hossein Anisi & Leila Musavian & Rafaela Villalpando-Hernandez & Shidrokh Goudarzi & Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed, 2019. "Enhancing the Performance of Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-14, July.
    11. Siriyothai, Patcharakon & Kittichaikarn, Chawalit, 2023. "Performance enhancement of a galloping-based energy harvester with different groove depths on square bluff body," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 210(C), pages 148-158.
    12. Wang, Zhemin & Du, Yu & Li, Tianrun & Yan, Zhimiao & Tan, Ting, 2021. "A flute-inspired broadband piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting device with mechanical intelligent design," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 303(C).
    13. Liu, Feng-Rui & Zhang, Wen-Ming & Peng, Zhi-Ke & Meng, Guang, 2019. "Fork-shaped bluff body for enhancing the performance of galloping-based wind energy harvester," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 92-105.
    14. Shan, Xiaobiao & Tian, Haigang & Chen, Danpeng & Xie, Tao, 2019. "A curved panel energy harvester for aeroelastic vibration," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 249(C), pages 58-66.
    15. Zou, Donglin & Liu, Gaoyu & Rao, Zhushi & Tan, Ting & Zhang, Wenming & Liao, Wei-Hsin, 2021. "Design of a multi-stable piezoelectric energy harvester with programmable equilibrium point configurations," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 302(C).
    16. Zhang, Tingsheng & Wu, Xiaoping & Pan, Yajia & Luo, Dabing & Xu, Yongsheng & Zhang, Zutao & Yuan, Yanping & Yan, Jinyue, 2022. "Vibration energy harvesting system based on track energy-recycling technology for heavy-duty freight railroads," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 323(C).
    17. Gu, Yuhan & Liu, Weiqun & Zhao, Caiyou & Wang, Ping, 2020. "A goblet-like non-linear electromagnetic generator for planar multi-directional vibration energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 266(C).
    18. Zhuang Lu & Quan Wen & Xianming He & Zhiyu Wen, 2019. "A Nonlinear Broadband Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester Based on Double-Clamped Beam," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-12, July.
    19. Wang, Junlei & Tang, Lihua & Zhao, Liya & Zhang, Zhien, 2019. "Efficiency investigation on energy harvesting from airflows in HVAC system based on galloping of isosceles triangle sectioned bluff bodies," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 172(C), pages 1066-1078.
    20. Wang, Feng & Sun, Xiuting & Xu, Jian, 2018. "A novel energy harvesting device for ultralow frequency excitation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 151(C), pages 250-260.

    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:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:16:p:5077-:d:616688. 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: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    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.