Energy Harvesting – Access Provider: FhG-IIS

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Access Description
Technical Offering
Main Equipment
Typical Application
Case Study
Responsible
Key Specifications

Design and characterisation of energy harvesting systems

Access Description
Access to lab with different measurement devices, generators and power management test-kits and platforms to design and characterize energy harvesting systems
Technical Offering
  • Measurement and recording of power output of energy harvesting systems (like solar cells, thermoelectric generators, vibration harvesters)
  • Design and implementation of energy harvesting systems
  • Samples and materials of different harvesters available
  • Power management test-kits available
Main Equipment
  • Tira electrodynamic shaker S 52110
  • dSPACE DS1104 R&D controller board
  • Autolab PGSTAT302N and FRA32M module: Impedance spectroscopy in the range of 10 µHz – 1 MHz
  • Existing scripts to obtain 3D plots of the characterized harvester
  • Agilent DC Power Analyzer N6705A
  • Laser sensor for exact amplitude measurement of mechanical harvester
  • Thermographic camera VarioCAM high resolution (640×480 pixel, accuracy of ± 1.5 K)
  • Digital resistor board
  • Heating plate
Typical applications
  • Development of specific harvesting systems with available building blocks like TEGs, solar modules, voltage converters and storage devices.
  • Design and characterization of single harvesters (thermal or vibration) and also of AC-DC and DC-DC converters in conjunction with their EH generators (vibrational or thermoelectric).
Case Study
A test set-up including the electrodynamic shaker S 52110 from Tira with a dSPACE DS1104 R&D controller board, a digital resistor and a Simulink software is available. This software enables a characterization of vibration energy harvester by means of its generated power as a function of the resistance and frequency for a given amplitude: It is also possible to apply real acceleration data to the electrodynamic shaker for further characterization.

Responsible
Henrik Zessin

Test set-up for vibration harvesters Thermographic camera Autolab PGSTAT302N
Key specifications
  • 20 mg – 2 g and up to 200 Hz
  • 2 Ω to 12.5 MΩ resistance range
  • ± 100 V
  • 640×480 pixel, 50/60 Hz
  • High resolution mode for still pictures
  • ± 1.5 K
  • 10 V, 10 nA – 1 A
  • 10 A with booster FRA32M
  • 10 µHz – 1 MHz
  • 0.2% accuracy