Nacrtak An experiment on the growing and harvesting of willow trees aimed at short rotation forestry was conducted in northern Japan. Willows were harvested using a sugarcane harvester from southern Japan during its agricultural off-season. The growing experiment showed the high potential of willow plantations to produce woody biomass of more than 10 dry-t/ha/y. The harvesting experiment showed...

This paper presents a systematic design methodology for impedance matching circuits of an RF energy harvester to maximize the harvested energy for a range of input power levels with known distribution. Design of input matching networks for RF rectifier differs from those for traditional RF circuits such as low-noise amplifier because the transistors in the RF rectifiers operate in different reg...

In this study, we design the 3D-printed phononic crystal (PnC) beam with topological interface state for harvesting mechanical energy of flexural waves. The PnC is formed by arranging periodic grooves on its surface. either topologically trivial or non-trivial phase can be achieved via changing distance between grooves. then generated combining two PnCs distinct phases. existence verified both ...

The objective of this study is to develop and analyze a nonlinear suspended energy harvester (NSEH) that can be mounted on a rotating wheel. The device comprises a permanent magnet as a mass in the kinetic system, two springs, and two coil sets. The mass vibrates along the transverse direction because of the variations in gravitational force. This research establishes nonlinear vibration equati...

This paper presents design, fabrication and characterization of an electromagnetic energy harvester, which can operate at different resonance frequencies. It utilizes magnetic spring technique to scavenge energy from low frequency vibrations. The optimization of generator is done in two stages. First, optimization of a single harvester is done in terms of number of turns, coil width, coil posit...

The South African Sugar Association Experiment Station, Agricultural Engineering Department conducted a series of semi-mechanised versus fully mechanised harvesting trials on a large commercial estate in Swaziland over the 1998/1999, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 seasons. During the trials machinery performance was measured, differences in the quality of cane delivered to the factory were determined,...

A tremendous amount of research has been performed on the design and analysis of vibration energy harvester architectures with the goal of optimizing power output; most studies assume idealized input vibrations without paying much attention to whether such idealizations are broadly representative of real sources. These “idealized input signals” are typically derived from the expected nature of ...

We propose a spiral-shaped piezoelectric bimorph power harvester operating with coupled flexural and extensional vibration modes for applications to low frequency energy sources. A theoretical analysis is performed and the computational results show that the spiral structure has relatively low operating frequency compared to beam power harvesters of the same size. It is found that to optimize t...

This paper focuses on several aspects extending the dynamical efficiency of a cantilever beam vibrating in the third mode. A few ways of producing this mode stimulation, namely vibro-impact or forced excitation, as well as its application for energy harvesting devices are proposed. The paper presents numerical and experimental analyses of novel structural dynamics effects along with an optimal ...

This paper studies energy harvesting from heartbeat vibrations using fan-folded piezoelectric beams. The generated energy from the heartbeat can be used to power a leadless pacemaker. In order to utilize the available 3 dimensional space to the energy harvester, we chose the fan-folded design. The proposed device consists of several piezoelectric beams stacked on top of each other. The size for...