Energy harvesting based on piezoelectric Ericsson cycles in a piezoceramic material

The possibility of recycling ambient energies with electric generators instead of using batteries with limited life spans has stimulated important research efforts over the past years. The integration of such generators into mainly autonomous low-power systems, for various industrial or domestic applications is envisioned. In particular, the present work deals with energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations. It is shown here that direct piezoelectric energy harvesting (short circuiting on an adapted resistance, for example) leads to relatively weak energy levels that are insufficient for an industrial development.By coupling an electric field and mechanical excitation on Ericsson-based cycles, the amplitude of the harvested energy can be highly increased, and can reach a maximum close to 100 times its initial value. To obtain such a gain, one needs to employ high electrical field levels (high amplitude, high frequency), which induce a non-linearity through the piezoceramic. A special dynamic hysteresis model has been developed to correctly take into account the material properties, and to provide a real estimation of the harvested energy. A large number of theoretical predictions and experimental results have been compared and are discussed herein, in order to validate the proposed solution.

[1]  Lei Zuo,et al.  Towards Meso and Macro Scale Energy Harvesting of Vibration , 2009 .

[2]  Brian R. Mace,et al.  On the performance of a dual-mode non-linear vibration energy harvesting device , 2012 .

[3]  Lei Zuo,et al.  Self-powered Active Control of Structures with TMDs , 2011 .

[4]  Daniel Guyomar,et al.  High frequency bandwidth polarization and strain control using a fractional derivative inverse model , 2010 .

[5]  D. Guyomar,et al.  Dynamical hysteresis model of ferroelectric ceramics under electric field using fractional derivatives , 2007 .

[6]  Yoshihiro Suda,et al.  Electro-mechanical suspension system considering energy consumption and vehicle manoeuvre , 2008 .

[7]  Daniel Guyomar,et al.  Experimental Duffing oscillator for broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting , 2011 .

[8]  L. Gammaitoni,et al.  Nonlinear energy harvesting. , 2008, Physical review letters.

[9]  Neil M. White,et al.  Towards a piezoelectric vibration-powered microgenerator , 2001 .

[10]  D. Inman,et al.  A Review of Power Harvesting from Vibration using Piezoelectric Materials , 2004 .

[11]  Jeffrey T. Scruggs,et al.  Structural control with regenerative force actuation networks , 2005 .

[12]  Daniel Guyomar,et al.  Low frequency modelling of hysteresis behaviour and dielectric permittivity in ferroelectric ceramics under electric field , 2007 .

[13]  P. Jones,et al.  Powerful platform [offshore HVDC transmission] , 2006 .

[14]  D. Guyomar,et al.  Fractional derivative operators for modeling piezoceramic polarization behaviors under dynamic mechanical stress excitation , 2013 .

[15]  D. Guyomar,et al.  Time fractional derivatives for voltage creep in ferroelectric materials: theory and experiment , 2008 .

[16]  Ahsan Kareem,et al.  Assessment of Energy Potential and Vibration Mitigation of Regenerative Tuned Mass Dampers on Wind Excited Tall Buildings , 2011 .

[17]  Yu Zhou,et al.  Design and characterization of an electromagnetic energy harvester for vehicle suspensions , 2010 .

[18]  D. Guyomar,et al.  Fractional derivative operators for modeling the dynamic polarization behavior as a function of frequency and electric field amplitude , 2009, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control.

[19]  Grzegorz Litak,et al.  Magnetopiezoelastic energy harvesting driven by random excitations , 2010 .

[20]  Mickaël Lallart,et al.  Materials, structures and power interfaces for efficient piezoelectric energy harvesting , 2009 .

[21]  Charles R. Farrar,et al.  Energy Harvesting for Structural Health Monitoring Sensor Networks , 2008 .

[22]  Daniel Guyomar,et al.  The use of fractional derivation in modeling ferroelectric dynamic hysteresis behavior over large frequency bandwidth , 2010 .

[23]  Joseph A. Paradiso,et al.  Energy scavenging for mobile and wireless electronics , 2005, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[24]  Lei Zuo,et al.  Regenerative semi-active control of tall building vibration with series TMDs , 2010, Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference.