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The Potential of Cylindrical Piezoelectric Transducers for High-Frequency Acoustic Energy Harvesting

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  • Shehab Salem

    (Department of Power Engineering Equipment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic)

  • Karel Fraňa

    (Department of Power Engineering Equipment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic)

  • Iva Nová

    (Department of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic)

Abstract

The work presented in this paper studies the potential of cylindrical piezoelectric transducers for harvesting high-frequency acoustic energy. The cylinder was made of a modified PZT (lead zirconate titanate) and had the shape of a squared cylinder with a side length of 4 cm and a wall thickness of 1 mm. The study used open-circuit measurements to study the relationship between the sound wavelength and the cylinder size and its effect on the performance of energy harvesting. The cylinder was found to give the best performance at a frequency of 20 kHz. In addition to open-circuit measurements, closed-circuit measurements were performed to demonstrate the ability to dissipate energy harvested from 20 kHz sound waves across an electric load. The load was designed in a series of experimental steps that aimed at optimizing an impedance-matched energy harvester. Finally, the cylinder was tested at the optimized load conditions, and it was possible to harvest and store energy with a power of 67.6 μW and harvesting efficiency of 86.1%.

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  • Shehab Salem & Karel Fraňa & Iva Nová, 2021. "The Potential of Cylindrical Piezoelectric Transducers for High-Frequency Acoustic Energy Harvesting," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:18:p:5845-:d:636172
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