Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

A comprehensive review on self-powered smart bearings

Y Zhang, W Wang, X Wu, Y Lei, J Cao, C Bowen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, with the development of industrial informatization and intellectualization, the
development of smart bearings has attracted a lot of significant attention in an attempt to …

A stacked electromagnetic energy harvester with frequency up-conversion for swing motion

N Zhou, Y Zhang, CR Bowen, J Cao - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper undertakes theoretical and experimental investigations of a stacked magnetic
modulation harvester with frequency up-conversion for energy harvesting performance …

Variable reluctance bearing generators applicable in condition monitoring of bearing cages

Y Miao, S Gao, Y Kong, Z Jiang, Q Han… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes a variable reluctance bearing generator (VRBG) based on a ribbon-
shaped soft ferromagnetic cage, that is used in the condition monitoring of bearing cages. A …

Modelling of electromagnetic energy harvester with rotational pendulum using mechanical vibrations to scavenge electrical energy

B Ambrożkiewicz, G Litak, P Wolszczak - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application A concept of a non-linear electromagnetic energy harvesting (EH)
system with a rotational pendulum was proposed. In the system, non-linearity was …

A smart harvester for capturing energy from human ankle dorsiflexion with reduced user effort

M Cai, WH Liao, J Cao - Smart Materials and Structures, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Scavenging energy from human motion is a potential way to meet the increasing
requirement of electrical power supply for portable electronics. However, since the …

Design, analysis and experimental study of a T-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester with internal resonance

Z Xie, T Wang, CAK Kwuimy, Y Shao… - Smart Materials and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a T-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester (TPEH) is proposed by taking
advantages of internal resonance and multimodal techniques. The developed TPEH is …

Design and analysis of the piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvester based on magnetically coupled structures

J Li, X Han, X Rui, H Li, Y Zhang, W Zhang, Z Zeng - Ceramics International, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvester based on magnetic
coupling for wind energy harvesting. The prototype utilizes magnetic force between the …

A high-performance rotational electromagnetic energy harvester based on magnetic plucking: Design, simulation, and experiment

H Zhang, S Zhou, H Xu, S Zhou - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Harvesting rotational energy to supply low-powered electronic devices can optimize the
whole power supply system layout. In this paper, we propose a high-performance rotational …

Optimal design and experimental verification of piezoelectric energy harvester with fractal structure

W Kwak, Y Lee - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The important issues in the conventional rotating vibration energy harvester are that the
energy transfer efficiency and the fatigue life were limited because considering only the …