IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/phsmap/v652y2024ics0378437124005594.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Optimizing power-efficiency dynamics in ambient energy harvesting: Exploring trade-offs, linearity, and synergy

Author

Listed:
  • Hazra, Debalina
  • Mondal, Shrabani

Abstract

As the demand for low-power electronics and IoT devices grows, ambient energy harvesting appears to be a promising alternative for powering such systems in the long run. However, optimizing power and efficiency concurrently in such systems is challenging, involving balancing a number of variables. This paper investigates the optimization of power and efficiency in ambient energy harvesting systems focusing on nonlinear oscillator electromechanical harvesters subjected to multiplicative time-correlated ambient noise. Through extensive numerical simulations, we reveal distinct relationships between power and efficiency, influenced by various parameters. We observe autonomous stochastic resonance phenomena, elucidating a linear power-efficiency trend for small noise correlation time under fixed noise variance but limiting simultaneous power and efficiency optimization beyond a threshold. Under fixed noise strength, there is a trade-off between power and efficiency. Additionally, damping strength, piezoelectric parameters, and capacitor charging time impact power and efficiency linearly. These insights enhance understanding of power efficiency dynamics in ambient energy harvesting, thereby offering practical recommendations for parameter selection to maximize both power output and efficiency in the next generation of electronics.

Suggested Citation

  • Hazra, Debalina & Mondal, Shrabani, 2024. "Optimizing power-efficiency dynamics in ambient energy harvesting: Exploring trade-offs, linearity, and synergy," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 652(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:652:y:2024:i:c:s0378437124005594
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.130050
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437124005594
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.physa.2024.130050?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Somrita Ray & Shrabani Mondal & Bikramaditya Mandal & Bidhan Chandra Bag, 2016. "The role of interplay between the potential and the ambient energies on the vibration energy harvesting," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 89(10), pages 1-12, October.
    2. Vocca, Helios & Neri, Igor & Travasso, Flavio & Gammaitoni, Luca, 2012. "Kinetic energy harvesting with bistable oscillators," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 771-776.
    3. Tingting Zhang & Yanfei Jin, 2024. "Stochastic optimal control of a tri-stable energy harvester with the P-SSHI circuit under colored noise," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 97(1), pages 1-13, January.
    4. Giacomo Clementi & Francesco Cottone & Alessandro Di Michele & Luca Gammaitoni & Maurizio Mattarelli & Gabriele Perna & Miquel López-Suárez & Salvatore Baglio & Carlo Trigona & Igor Neri, 2022. "Review on Innovative Piezoelectric Materials for Mechanical Energy Harvesting," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-44, August.
    5. Mondal, Shrabani & Sen, Monoj Kumar & Baura, Alendu & Bag, Bidhan Chandra, 2016. "Rate laws of the self-induced aggregation kinetics of Brownian particles," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 445(C), pages 128-137.
    6. Mondal, Shrabani & Baura, Alendu & Das, Sudip & Bag, Bidhan Chandra, 2018. "A generic signature of a fluctuating magnetic field: An additional turnover prior to the Kramers’ one," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 502(C), pages 58-76.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Chen, Lin & Liao, Xin & Sun, Beibei & Zhang, Ning & Wu, Jianwei, 2022. "A numerical-experimental dynamic analysis of high-efficiency and broadband bistable energy harvester with self-decreasing potential barrier effect," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 317(C).
    2. Huguet, Thomas & Badel, Adrien & Druet, Olivier & Lallart, Mickaël, 2018. "Drastic bandwidth enhancement of bistable energy harvesters: Study of subharmonic behaviors and their stability robustness," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 226(C), pages 607-617.
    3. Yildirim, Tanju & Ghayesh, Mergen H. & Li, Weihua & Alici, Gursel, 2017. "A review on performance enhancement techniques for ambient vibration energy harvesters," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 435-449.
    4. Asad Mehmood & Saad R. Qureshi & Usman Ghafoor & Raees Fida Swati & Fouzia Gillani & Sameena Bibi & Abu Bakkar & Muhammad Mahad Shah, 2024. "An Investigative Study on Energy Harvesting by Hydrofoils: Simple vs. Undulated," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(24), pages 1-18, December.
    5. Wei, Chongfeng & Jing, Xingjian, 2017. "A comprehensive review on vibration energy harvesting: Modelling and realization," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 1-18.
    6. Zhang, L.B. & Dai, H.L. & Abdelkefi, A. & Wang, L., 2019. "Experimental investigation of aerodynamic energy harvester with different interference cylinder cross-sections," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 970-981.
    7. Zhang, Yulong & Wang, Tianyang & Luo, Anxin & Hu, Yushen & Li, Xinxin & Wang, Fei, 2018. "Micro electrostatic energy harvester with both broad bandwidth and high normalized power density," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 362-371.
    8. Wang, Chaohui & Zhao, Jianxiong & Li, Qiang & Li, Yanwei, 2018. "Optimization design and experimental investigation of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices for pavement," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 229(C), pages 18-30.
    9. Marco Antonio Islas-Herrera & David Sánchez-Luna & Jorge Miguel Jaimes-Ponce & Daniel Andrés Córdova-Córdova & Christopher Iván Lorenzo-Alfaro & Daniel Hernández-Rivera, 2024. "Energy Harvester Based on Mechanical Impacts of an Oscillating Rod on Piezoelectric Transducers," Clean Technol., MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-14, July.
    10. Qin, Jian & Zhang, Zhenquan & Huang, Shuting & Wang, Wei & Liu, Yanjun & Xue, Gang, 2024. "Energy capture performance enhancement of point absorber wave energy converter using magnetic tristable and quadstable mechanisms," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 221(C).
    11. Lee, Hyeon & Sharpes, Nathan & Abdelmoula, Hichem & Abdelkefi, Abdessattar & Priya, Shashank, 2018. "Higher power generation from torsion-dominant mode in a zigzag shaped two-dimensional energy harvester," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 216(C), pages 494-503.
    12. Younesian, Davood & Alam, Mohammad-Reza, 2017. "Multi-stable mechanisms for high-efficiency and broadband ocean wave energy harvesting," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 197(C), pages 292-302.
    13. Jiawang Zeng & Tianyi Zhang & Deepak Mishra & Jinhong Yuan & Aruna Seneviratne, 2025. "A Survey on Green Designs for Energy Harvesting Backscatter Communications to Enable Sustainable IoT," Energies, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-46, February.
    14. Tingting Zhang & Yanfei Jin, 2024. "Stochastic optimal control of a tri-stable energy harvester with the P-SSHI circuit under colored noise," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 97(1), pages 1-13, January.
    15. Michele Bonnin & Fabio L. Traversa & Fabrizio Bonani, 2022. "An Impedance Matching Solution to Increase the Harvested Power and Efficiency of Nonlinear Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-17, April.
    16. Thanh Tung, Nguyen & Taxil, Gaspard & Nguyen, Hung Hoang & Ducharne, Benjamin & Lallart, Mickaël & Lefeuvre, Elie & Kuwano, Hiroki & Sebald, Gael, 2022. "Ultimate electromechanical energy conversion performance and energy storage capacity of ferroelectric materials under high excitation levels," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 326(C).
    17. Xiong, Haocheng & Wang, Linbing, 2016. "Piezoelectric energy harvester for public roadway: On-site installation and evaluation," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 174(C), pages 101-107.
    18. Zhou, Shengxi & Cao, Junyi & Inman, Daniel J. & Lin, Jing & Liu, Shengsheng & Wang, Zezhou, 2014. "Broadband tristable energy harvester: Modeling and experiment verification," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 33-39.
    19. Qiao, Guofu & Sun, Guodong & Li, Hui & Ou, Jinping, 2014. "Heterogeneous tiny energy: An appealing opportunity to power wireless sensor motes in a corrosive environment," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 87-96.
    20. Wael A. Altabey & Sallam A. Kouritem, 2022. "The New Techniques for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Design, Optimization, Applications, and Analysis," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(18), pages 1-4, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:652:y:2024:i:c:s0378437124005594. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physica-a-statistical-mechpplications/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.