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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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Test set-up for vibration harvesters | Thermographic camera | Autolab PGSTAT302N |
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