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Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment

Torregrossa, Dimitri  
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Karkar, Sami
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Rivet, Etienne  
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2016
Proceedings of the IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

This paper describes a first prototype harvesting the acoustic energy using electrochemical storage devices. In particular, the harvesting system is composed by an Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC) suitably coupled with an electroacoustic absorber by means of an AC/DC converter. The aims of the proposed work are i) to assess the technical feasibility to compensate the decay voltage via an acoustic harvester; and ii) to evaluate how such compensation can improve the performance of the targeted EDLC. Concerning the first aim, the experimental results show that the required sound pressures to charge the EDLC up to its nominal voltage range from 118 dB up to 122 dB (re. 20 μPa). The EDLC charging times range from couple of hours up to several hours. The charging powers range from few mW up to several tens of mW and the energy efficiency of the whole system ranges from 5% up to 35%. Concerning the second aim of the paper, further experimental results illustrate a non-negligible improvement of the capability of the EDLC to deliver high-pulsed currents. In particular, after compensating the EDLC decay voltage via the proposed acoustic harvester, the rise time required to deliver a high pulse current is even 170% lower than the one obtained without any previous decay voltage compensation. The associated current peak value and root mean square value are 20 % higher.

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DOI
10.1109/IECON.2016.7793097
Author(s)
Torregrossa, Dimitri  
Karkar, Sami
Rivet, Etienne  
Lissek, Hervé  
Paolone, Mario  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
Proceedings of the IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
ISBN of the book

978-1-5090-3474-1

Start page

5495

End page

5500

Subjects

acoustic energy harvesting

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supercapacitor modeling

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redistribution phenomenon

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residual charge

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dynamic supercapacitors behavior

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IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Florence, Italy

October 24-27, 2016

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December 8, 2016
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