Harvesting energy from vehicle wheels
Manla, G., White, N.M. and Tudor, J. (2009) Harvesting energy from vehicle wheels. 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. Transducers 2009, 1389-92.
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Description/Abstract
This paper describes a new method to generate power from a rotating vehicle wheel using a Thunder trade piezoelectric generator. The approach uses centripetal force to generate an impact on the piezoelectric transducer. The device was designed to be mounted on a vehicle rim. A generator with a volume of 2 cm/sup 3/ produced 4 mW of electrical power at 800 rpm using a test wheel with 0.12 m diameter. Analytical results showed that the same amount of power can be produced by mounting the generator on a vehicle wheel with a diameter of 13 inches and a linear speed of 28.4 miles/h.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Imported from ISI Web of Science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > EEE |
| Item ID: | 270306 |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2010 07:46 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:42 |
| Contributors: | Manla, G. (Author) White, N.M. (Author) Tudor, J. (Author) |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Additional Information: | Imported from ISI Web of Science |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/270306 |
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