Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration

The field of harvesting electrical energy from ambient vibration has grown with rapid interest. Perpetual source of electrical energy can be extracted from structural vibrations. The paper deals with a technology for scavenging electricity from vibration using iron-gallium alloy. This alloy offers h...

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Main Authors: Subhasish Dey, Debabrata Roy, Soumyabrata Patra, Tapan Santra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018336624
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spelling doaj-d2d941bca023408790146af716182c392020-11-25T02:20:02ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402019-01-0151e01135Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibrationSubhasish Dey0Debabrata Roy1Soumyabrata Patra2Tapan Santra3Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India; Corresponding author.Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, IndiaIndian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, IndiaKalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, IndiaThe field of harvesting electrical energy from ambient vibration has grown with rapid interest. Perpetual source of electrical energy can be extracted from structural vibrations. The paper deals with a technology for scavenging electricity from vibration using iron-gallium alloy. This alloy offers high ductile property and the effect of inverse magnetostriction is also quite high. In this paper, a bending type magnetostrictive prototype energy harvester has been considered. Volume of the used material is 7 × 2 × 42 mm3. Forced & free vibration characteristics have been examined on this prototype. Maximum conversion efficiency of 49% has been achieved at input frequency of 30 Hz.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018336624Electrical engineeringEnergyMechanical engineeringElectromagnetism
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author Subhasish Dey
Debabrata Roy
Soumyabrata Patra
Tapan Santra
spellingShingle Subhasish Dey
Debabrata Roy
Soumyabrata Patra
Tapan Santra
Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
Heliyon
Electrical engineering
Energy
Mechanical engineering
Electromagnetism
author_facet Subhasish Dey
Debabrata Roy
Soumyabrata Patra
Tapan Santra
author_sort Subhasish Dey
title Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
title_short Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
title_full Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
title_fullStr Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
title_full_unstemmed Performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
title_sort performance of a modified magnetostrictive energy harvester in mechanical vibration
publisher Elsevier
series Heliyon
issn 2405-8440
publishDate 2019-01-01
description The field of harvesting electrical energy from ambient vibration has grown with rapid interest. Perpetual source of electrical energy can be extracted from structural vibrations. The paper deals with a technology for scavenging electricity from vibration using iron-gallium alloy. This alloy offers high ductile property and the effect of inverse magnetostriction is also quite high. In this paper, a bending type magnetostrictive prototype energy harvester has been considered. Volume of the used material is 7 × 2 × 42 mm3. Forced & free vibration characteristics have been examined on this prototype. Maximum conversion efficiency of 49% has been achieved at input frequency of 30 Hz.
topic Electrical engineering
Energy
Mechanical engineering
Electromagnetism
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018336624
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