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Microenergy
Microenergy
Harvesting For
Biomedical
Applications
Energy Harvesting
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Energy Harvesting Using
Human Energy
Reduction in size and shape of electronic equipment
energy consumption reduced to mV range.
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Piezoelectric energy
harvesting
Works on the principle of piezoelectric effect.
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Piezoelectric transducers
common types of piezoelectric materials
PVDF(polyvinylidene fluoride)
PZT(lead zirconate titanate)
Applications
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o Piezoelectric Shoe Inserts
three different ways to excite piezoelectric material
- compression, slapped and bent
piezoelectric bender placed in the sole (2mW)
a unimorph attached to a curved steel plate (8mW)
in pacemakers
- employ
nanogenerators to
convert mechanical
energy to electrical
energy.
- nanogenerators
consist of piezoelectric
and semiconducting
coupled
nanowires(zinc oxide).
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o Piezoelectric
generation for drug delivery
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Thermoelectric energy
harvesting
Works on the principle of Seebeck effect.
Temperature difference of body converted
to electrical energy.
Thermogenerators used for conversion.
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Application-Existing system
in wireless EEG module
- employs thermo-
generators for energy
conversion.
- temperature gradient
between forehead and
the environment generate
energy in
thermogenerators to
supply the modules.
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Advantages
and Disadvantages
Piezoelectric Thermoelectric
Advantages Advantages
- produces voltage from 2 - contain no material that
to 10v. must be replenished.
- high energy density - heating and cooling are
- no separate external reversed.
sources required - no external source
required.
Disadvantages Disadvantages
- ageing problems - low efficiency.
- charge leakage -irreversible effects in
- high output impedance thermoelectric material
limits efficiency
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Conclusion
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Future enhancement
body temperature
respiration etc..
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Reference
Pacemaker charging using body energy by Dinesh
Bhatia, Sweeti Bairagi,Sanat Goel, Manoj Jangra.
Thermoelectric micro converter for energy harvesting
systems -João Paulo Carmo, Member, IEEE, Luis Miguel
Gonçalves, and José Higino Correia, Member, IEEE
Energy Harvesting for Self Powered Wearable Health
Monitoring System - Qadeer A Khan, Sarvesh J Bang
Review and Future Trend of Energy Harvesting Methods
for Portable Medical Devices -J. Paulo and P.D. Gaspar
Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Nanosystems-
Zhong Lin Wang.
HumanMachine and Thermoelectric Energy Scavenging
for Wearable Devices-Vladimir Leonov
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