Performances of rainfall energy harvester |
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| Rosario Miceli, Pietro Romano, Ciro Spataro, Fabio Viola |
- Abstract:
- The paper deals with the performances of rainfall energy harvesting by means of piezoelectric transducers. Different studies agree on the level of suitable generated voltage on the electrodes of a piezoelectric transducer subjected to rainfall, but a complete characterization on the supplied power is still missing. This work, in order to limit optimistic forecasts, takes into account the behaviour of the transducers subjected to real and artificial rainfall, condition that has shown promising behaviour in laboratory. In order to increase the energy harvesting and define its limits different loads have been taken into account. Two commercial transducers have been considered: a lead zirconate titanate and polyvinylidene difluoride transducer.
- Keywords:
- energy harvesting, piezoelectric, cantilevers.
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2014-355.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- TC4 Symposium 2014
- Title:
20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC)
"Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn"- Place:
- Benevento, ITALY
- Time:
- 15 September 2014 - 17 September 2014