A Novel Design Development for

Piezoelectric Power Devices

Zongyou Zuo* and William Nimmo
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK

*Corresponding author - Zzuo3@sheffield.ac.uk

 Background

• More and more small-scale devices

• Power supply – Batteries

• Energy Harvesting
Power
Supply
Background
• The development of fossil-free
power sources

• More and more small-scale devices

• Power supply – Batteries

• Energy Harvesting
Piezoelectric Material

• Energy Output ：

1. Frequency

2. Stress on surface （ Deflection angle ）

 Piezoelectric Harvesters
NO. Novel design Schematic diagram Bluff body size(L*W*H) Power output at the maximum wind speed in the Ref.
experiment

1 Funnel-shaped design (2020) 72*50*160 4.3mW at 7m/s (1)

2 T-shaped design (2018) 20*20*90 (T prism) 21.23W at 12.25m/s (the whole system power output) (2)

3 Y-shaped design (2018) 17.6*30*70 1.5mW at 5m/s (3)

4 Spindle-like and butterfly- 33*66*117mm 8.02V at 2.92m/s (4)

like design (2020)

5 A curved plate design (2019) 35*35*100 mm3 0.0356mW at 5m/s (5)

6 Energy harvester with Y- 32*32*118 mm3 0.576mW at 1.8m/s (6)

shaped attachments (2019)

7 a comb-like beam design 32*32*140 mm3 0.1245mW at 3m/s (7)

(2021)

8 Removable cuboid design 60*60*120mm3 10mW at 12m/s (8)

(2021)
Ref ： Daoli Z, Xinyu H et. Piezoelectric galloping energy harvesting enhanced by topological equivalent aerodynamic design. Energy Conversion and Management 222
(2020) 113260

Jie Song, Gang Hu et. Performance of a circular cylinder piezoelectric wind energy harvester fitted with a splitter plate. Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 223903 (2017)
New Design (with tail)

Parameter Value Unit

Diameter 200 mm

Tail Length 130 mm

Fluid Density 1.225 kg/m3

Fluid Viscosity 1.79E-05 kg/m-s

Catalog Solution Method Used

Pressure-Velocity Coupling Simple Scheme

Second Order Pressure and Momentum

Spatial Discretization First Order Upwind Turbulent Kinetic Energy

First Order Upwind Turbulent Dissipation

Rate

Transient Formulation Second Order Implicit Option

Comparison between Semicircle and New Design (with tail)

Semicircle with Tail

Semicircle
Comparison between Semicircle and New Design (with tail)
 Thank you

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