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On the harvest of rainfall energy by means of piezoelectric transducer

Pietro RomanoRosario MiceliG. AcciariFabio Viola

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business.industryAcousticsElectrical engineeringenergy harvesting piezoelectricSettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti ElettriciLead zirconate titanatePiezoelectricitySettore ING-INF/01 - ElettronicaPower (physics)chemistry.chemical_compoundSettore ING-IND/31 - ElettrotecnicaTransducerchemistryPMUTEnvironmental sciencebusinessEnergy harvestingEnergy (signal processing)Voltage

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In this paper a detailed study on the harvest of the energy contained in rainfall by means of piezoelectric transducers is presented. Diverse studies agree on the level of suitable generated voltage on the electrodes of a piezoelectric transducer subjected to rainfall, but a complete characterization on the supplied power is still missing. This work, in order to limit optimistic forecasts, takes into account the behavior of the transducers subjected to real and also artificial rainfall, condition that has shown promising behavior in laboratory. In order to increase the energy harvesting and also define its limits different loads have been taken into account. Only commercial transducers have been considered: a lead zirconate titanate and polyvinylidene difluoride transducer.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-10-01
10.1109/icrera.2013.6749923http://hdl.handle.net/10447/101875