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Improving the efficiency of air-flow energy harvesters combining active and passive rectifiers

Authors:

Danilo Porcarelli,

Davide Brunelli,

Luca BeniniAuthors Info & Claims

ENSSys '13: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems

Article No.: 6, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2534208.2534209

Published: 13 November 2013 Publication History

Abstract

The architecture of air-flow energy harvesters generally consists of a first rectifying stage followed by a DC-DC regulator to convert and to store the incoming energy. This paper presents a circuit designed to improve the efficiency of the rectifying stage combining a MOSFET-based active rectifier in parallel with a passive full-wave bridge. Such system exploits the low forward voltage of the Schottky diodes to compensate the drawback of the inefficient passive rectification due to the bulk diodes of the MOSFETs when the power generated by low air-flow speed is not sufficient to activate the control circuitry of the active rectifier. The hybrid rectifier concept was firstly analyzed by SPICE simulations and next validated by means of experiments. Results show a conversion efficiency improvement between 10% and 30%. Moreover an energy harvester equipped with the hybrid rectifier shows an increase of the collected energy from 7% to 11% with respect to a scavenger using the active topology.

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Brunelli D(2016)A High-Efficiency Wind Energy Harvester for Autonomous Embedded SystemsSensors10.3390/s1603032716:3(327)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2016
https://doi.org/10.3390/s16030327
Ju QZhang YMerrett G(2014)Reducing charge redistribution loss for supercapacitor-operated energy harvesting wireless sensor nodesProceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems10.1145/2675683.2675691(31-36)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2675683.2675691
Porcarelli DBrunelli DBenini L(2014)Clamp-and-ForgetMicroelectronics Journal10.1016/j.mejo.2014.05.01945:12(1671-1678)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.mejo.2014.05.019

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Improving the efficiency of air-flow energy harvesters combining active and passive rectifiers
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Design
2. Hardware

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ENSSys '13: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems

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ISBN:9781450324328

DOI:10.1145/2534208

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Brunelli D(2016)A High-Efficiency Wind Energy Harvester for Autonomous Embedded SystemsSensors10.3390/s1603032716:3(327)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2016
https://doi.org/10.3390/s16030327
Ju QZhang YMerrett G(2014)Reducing charge redistribution loss for supercapacitor-operated energy harvesting wireless sensor nodesProceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems10.1145/2675683.2675691(31-36)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2675683.2675691
Porcarelli DBrunelli DBenini L(2014)Clamp-and-ForgetMicroelectronics Journal10.1016/j.mejo.2014.05.01945:12(1671-1678)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.mejo.2014.05.019

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