ISBN: 9781839378874
Year: 2023
Binding: HB
Price: US $ 285.00
Energy harvesting from the environment is an appealing alternative to battery-powered devices, particularly for long-term, low-power, self-sustaining electronic systems. Along with energy producing devices, interface circuits are critical components of these energy harvesting systems because they govern and regulate energy flows. Energy harvesting is an exciting approach that has the potential to assist in resolving the world's energy crisis without diminishing natural resources. Energy harvesting, as one of the green energy alternatives, may help minimise greenhouse gas emissions associated with traditional energy sources. Today, energy harvesting technologies such as piezoelectric, thermoelectric, electromagnetic, and photovoltaic may be utilised to gather energy from the ambient environment and create electricity. These technologies operate on distinct principles, implying that their application requirements and energy conversion efficiencies are somewhat different. The current focus on low-power energy harvesting is on autonomous sensor networks. Energy harvesting is used in these applications to store energy in a capacitor, which is then boosted/regulated to a second storage capacitor or battery for usage by the microprocessor or data transmission. Typically, the electricity is utilised in a sensor application, and the data is stored or delivered wirelessly.
This book attempts to understand the multiple branches that fall under the discipline of energy harvesting and how such concepts have practical applications. It is a compilation of chapters that discuss the most vital concepts of this field. It deals with distributed-parameter modeling of energy harvesting, energy harvesting aware wireless sensor networks, vibration energy harvesting, thermoelectric energy harvesting processes and wearable energy harvesting system. It also sheds light on linear and nonlinear oscillator approaches, thick-film piezoelectric microgenerator, self-powered electronics for energy harvesting, graphene derivatives and 2d-layered nanomaterials for energy harvesting. The various subfields along with technological progress that have future implications are glanced at in it. Those with an interest in the field of energy harvesting would find this book helpful.