Design of a miniature wind turbine for powering wireless sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7647, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Xu, F J ^a,b   Yuan, F G ^b   Hu, J Z ^b   Qiu, Y P ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Equivalent circuit model; Miniature wind turbine; Wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; OUTPUT POWER; PROPELLER BLADES; RESISTIVE LOADS; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBINE BLADES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; CIRCUIT THEORY; CONCRETE BRIDGES; DC MOTORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; HARVESTING; SENSORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77953507366     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847429     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Davis, Kreith, F. and Goswami, D. Y., [Handbook of energy efficiency and renewable energy], CRC Press, Boca Raton, 22:1-30 (2007).
2. Federspiel, C. C. and Chen, J., "Air-powered sensor," Proc. IEEE. 1, 22-25 (2003).
3. Manwell, J. F., McGowan, J. G. and Rogers, A. L., [Wind energy explained: theory, design and application], Wiley, New York (2002)
4. Priya, S., Chen, C. T., Fye, D. and Zahnd, J., "Piezoelectric windmill: A novel solution to remote sensing," JJAP. Part 2, Papers 44, L104-L107 (2005).
5. Myers, R., Vickers, M., Kim, H. and Priya, S.," Small scale windmill, "Appl Phys Lett. Papers 90, 054106 (2007).
6. Rancourt, D., Tabesh, A. and Fréchette, L. G., "Evaluation of centimeter-scale miniature wind mills: aerodynamics and electromagnetic power generation," Proc. Power MEMS, 93-96 (2007).
7. Holmes, A. S., Hong, G. D. and Pullen, K. R., "Axial-flux permanent magnet machines for micropower generation," J Microelectromech Syst. Papers 14, 54-62 (2005).
8. Hirahara, H., Hossain, M. Z., Kawahashi, M. and Nonomura, Y., "Testing basic performance of a very small wind turbine designed for muilti-purpose," Renew Energ. Papers 30, 1279-1297 (2004).
9. Vardar, A.,and Alibasa, I., "Research on wind turbine rotor models using NACA profiles," Renew Energ. Papers 33, 1721-1732 (2008).
10. Krause, P. C. and Wasynczuk, O., [Electromechanical motion devices], McGraw-Hill, New York, 42-48 (1989).
11. Mitcheson, P. D., Yeatman, E. M., Rao, G. K., Holmes, A. S. and Green, T. C., "Energy harvesting from human and machine motion for wireless electronic devices," Proc. IEEE.96, 1457-1486 (2008).
12. Polastre, J., Szewczyk, R. and Culler, D. E., "Telos: enabling ultra-low power wireless research," Proc. IPSN, 364-369 (2005).