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Mechanical modulations for enhancing energy harvesting: Principles, methods and applications
Hong-Xiang Zou,Hong-Xiang Zou,Lin-Chuan Zhao,Qiu-Hua Gao,Lei Zuo,Feng-Rui Liu,Ting Tan,Kexiang Wei,Wen-Ming Zhang +8 more
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In this paper, the key roles of mechanical modulations for energy harvesting are emphasized, and the methods and principles of mechanical modulation and their applications to energy harvesting systems are reviewed and classified into three categories: excitation type conversions, frequency up-conversions, force/motion amplifications.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2019-12-01. It has received 244 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mechanical energy & Energy conversion efficiency.read more
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The state-of-the-art review on energy harvesting from flow-induced vibrations
TL;DR: The paper summarizes the works led to the current wind energy and hydro energy harvesters based on the principle of flow- induced vibrations, including bladeless generator Vortex Bladeless, University of Michigan vortex-induced vibrations aquatic clean energy, Australian BPS company's airfoil tidal energy capture device bioSTREAM, and others.
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A double-beam piezo-magneto-elastic wind energy harvester for improving the galloping-based energy harvesting
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a double-beam piezo-magneto-elastic wind energy harvester (DBPME-WEH) when exhibiting a galloping-based energy harvesting regime under wind excitation was investigated.
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Hybrid wind energy scavenging by coupling vortex-induced vibrations and galloping
Junlei Wang,Junlei Wang,Shanghao Gu,Chengyun Zhang,Guobiao Hu,Geng Chen,Kai Yang,Hang Li,Yuyang Lai,Grzegorz Litak,Daniil Yurchenko +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid piezoelectric wind energy scavenger with different cross-sectioned bluff bodies is presented to enhance the energy scavenging performance by coupling both the vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) and galloping phenomena.
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Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters
Long Liu,Xinge Guo,Chengkuo Lee +2 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of energy harvesting-assisted Internet of Things (IoT) applications among smart environmental monitoring (wind, ocean, and agriculture), smart transportations (drivers, vehicles, ships, roads, and bridges), smart homes (windows, floors, accessories, and human-machine interfaces), smart healthcare (wearable/portable devices, and implantable devices) are being promoted to conform with requirements of carbon neutrality and environment-friendly as discussed by the authors.
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A hybrid piezo-dielectric wind energy harvester for high-performance vortex-induced vibration energy harvesting
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid piezo-dielectric (PD) wind energy harvester was proposed to efficiently harvest the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) energy from low-speed wind.
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A review of power harvesting using piezoelectric materials (2003–2006)
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