2.2 Basic operation of Permanent Magnet Generator 16
2.2.1 Faraday’s Law 16
2.2.2 Voltage generation 17
2.2.3 Losses Mechanism 17
2.3 Overview of Energy Harvesting Device 19
2.3.1 Basic concept of proposed 200W energy harvester 19
2.4 Overview of Related Published Result of Energy Harvesting Device
21
3 METHODOLOGY
25 3.0 Research Methodology
25 3.1 Simulation Approach
27 3.2 Analysis Parameter
30 3.3 Design Specification
32
4 RESULT
33 4.0Analysis of Optimum Coil Parameter of Permanent
33 Magnet Generator for Energy Harvesting Application
4.1 Analysis of Output Voltage for 2A of Load Current 34
4.2 Analysis of Output Voltage for 4A of Load Current 36
4.3 Analysis of Output Power for 2A of Load Current 38
4.4 Analysis of Output Power for 4A of Load Current 40
4.5 The Optimum Coil Parameter 42
4.6 Proposed Energy Harvester Device 43
5 CONCLUSION
44 5.0 Conclusion
44
5.1 Recommendation 45
REFERENCE 46
APPENDICES 47
LIST OF TABLES
TABLE TITLE
PAGE
3.1 Elements of generator
31 3.2
The output current of the battery 32
4.1 Fixed setting for optimum coil parameter
42
LIST OF FIGURE
FIGURE TITLE
PAGE
2.1 Solar Water Heater
7 2.2:
Solar Thermal Energy Harvesting 8
2.3 Parabolic trough
8 2.4
Build up of PV cells 9
2.5 Solar energy harvesting
10 2.6a
Binary cycle power plant 12
2.6b Flash steam power plant
12 2.7
Conventional wind energy harvesting 13
2.8 Parts inside the wind turbine
13 2.9
Graph of hysteresis curve 18
2.10 The application of the motion harvester
19 2.11
Motion harvester layout 20
2.12 Piezoelectric energy harvester
21 2.13
Permanent magnet linear motion harvester 22
2.14 Rotational piezoelectric device
22 2.15
Micromachined piezoelectric cantilevers coupled to a rotational 23
oscillating mass 2.16
Concept of electromagnetic vibration energy harvester with 24
non-linear vibration 3.1
The flowchart of completing the project 26
3.2 Mesh of Finite Element method
27 3.3
Flux density of the generator 28
3.4 Flux linkage of the generator
28 3.5
The flowchart of designing using Femaph 29
3.6 The generator structure
30 3.7
Flowchart of analysis parameter 31
4.1 Output voltage at 2A of load current
35 4.2
Output voltage at 4A of load current 37
4.3 Output power at 2A of load current
39 4.4
Output power at 4A of load current 41
4.5 Parameter for coil optimization
42 4.6
Structure of the proposed energy harvester device 43
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Project Background