System design to harvest thermal energy across pavement structure

2012 IEEE Energytech, Energytech 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wu, Guangxi ^a   Yu, Xiong ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

circuit; DC DC converter; energy harvesting; energy storage; infrastructure; sensor; sensor system; supercapacitor; thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE; ENERGY HARVEST; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; HARVESTING STRATEGY; INFRASTRUCTURE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM MONITOR; MONITORING SENSORS; PAVEMENT STRUCTURES; PAVEMENT SURFACE; POTENTIAL RESOURCES; POWER SENSOR; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SUBGRADE SOIL; SUPER CAPACITOR; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY STORAGE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSORS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 84868532125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EnergyTech.2012.6304703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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