Human motion energy harvesting by design of handheld Linear PM Synchronous Generator

Author

Mohammadi, M.H. ; Poshtan, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., American Univ. in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The authors present the experimental procedure to build a high power handheld-sized Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (LPM SG) powered by human motion. This generator produces maximum energy for charging small-scale electronic devices such as mobile phones. Two different generator prototypes are compared through the presented theoretical and experimental results based on parallel charging of two 5V Li-ion battery supplies. The systematic choice of rare earth material PM, magnetization direction, solenoid wire diameter and number of turns have increased the generated power by more than tenfold between the discussed prototypes.

Keywords

energy harvesting; linear synchronous motors; permanent magnet generators; secondary cells; solenoids; wires (electric); LPM SG; high power handheld-sized linear PM synchronous generator; high power handheld-sized linear permanent magnet synchronous generator; human motion energy harvesting; lithium-ion battery supplies; magnetization direction; mobile phones; rare earth material PM; small-scale electronic devices; solenoid wire diameter; Coercive force; Demagnetization; Hafnium; Materials; Resistance; Systematics; Wires; harvesting human kinetic energy; linear PM synchronous generator; power-mass density; power-turn density;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0687-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPECS.2013.6713031

Filename

6713031