Energy harvesting methods using vibrating piezoelectric structures subject to acoustic emissions


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Annual International Congress on Renewable Energy, Oxford, İngiltere, 3 - 05 Eylül 2024, ss.1

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Oxford
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İngiltere
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Environmental problems and energy prices owing to the fossil fuels are the vital issues dealt with by the scientific community. Alternative to the fossil energy sources, energy can be harvested from various eco-friendly potential sources such as solar, wind, thermal, mechanical vibration, and biochemical energy sources. Acoustic energy is the accessible, usable, and clean wasted energy source prevalent in the surroundings. Obtaining higher acoustic energy efficiency, electromechanical resonators such as Helmholtz resonators can be utilized to amplify the acoustic signals. By doing so, more interaction of structures with acoustic emissions is achieved in static or dynamic modes. Particularly, resonant micro-cantilevers considerably respond to static acoustic forces under single- and multi-frequency operations. Crucially, oscillation observable responses such as amplitude and phase shift significantly vary as the acoustic force strength changes. In the view of the virial theorem and energy conservation principle, energy storage processes for oscillating micro-cantilevers undergoing acoustic forces can be described using virial and dissipated power. Higher energy can be stored by optimizing excitation schemes considering micro-cantilever properties and effective sound pressure levels. Therefore, using resonating micro-structures brings great potential to harvest acoustic energy for powering the microelectronic devices with low energy consumption.