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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Thermal energy harvesting"”.
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Low-grade Thermal Energy Harvesting and Waste Heat Recovery
… an extremely promising source of renewable energy. A cost-effective method for recovering the low-grade heat will have a transformative impact on the overall energy scenario. Efficiency of heat engines deteriorates with decrease in hot-side temperature, making low-grade heat recovery complex …
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Fully integrated ultra low voltage cold start system for thermal energy harvesting . . .
… monitoring and sensing applications rely on energy harvesting for battery-less operation, as it minimizes the need for human intervention, and offers long term monitoring solutions. Typical energy harvesters use high efficiency boost converters, which are able to step-up voltages from as low …
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An Investigation of Phase Change Material (PCM)-Based Ocean Thermal Energy Harvesting
Phase change material (PCM)-based ocean thermal energy harvesting is a relatively new method, which extracts the thermal energy from the temperature gradient in the ocean thermocline. Its basic idea is to utilize the temperature variation along the ocean water depth to cyclically freeze and melt a …
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Smart Prismatic Louver Technology for Enhanced Daylighting and Management of Thermal Loads in Green Buildings
… design strategies for mitigating building energy consumption are daylight redirection and solar energy harvesting. Good daylighting implementation enhances the amount of useful natural light within a space, thereby offsetting the need for electric lighting. Solar energy harvesting systems …
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Body powered thermoelectric systems
… [1]. This report furthers into the area of thermal energy harvesting, which focuses on using the temperature differential generated between the human body and the ambient environment to generate power. More specifically, a body-powered, thermoelectric-based power supply and system will be …
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Power Sources for Sensors and Robots in Remote and Inaccessible Environments
… robots. This thesis works towards addressing the energy demand for sensors in those inaccessible environments, and by extension exploring their potential applications. In specific, we approach this goal in 2 aspects. On one hand, we developed and optimized thermal energy harvesting systems to …
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Low power circuits with integrated magnetics for sensors and energy harvesting systems
… trends in sensor systems: miniaturization and energy-efficiency. This work explores the use of integrated magnetics in microelectronics to enable low power, energy-efficient sensing, as well as energy harvesting to power the sensors, in a compact form factor. For industrial applications, we …
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Full spectrum utilization for high-efficiency solar energy conversion
Today, two dominant strategies for solar energy harvesting exist: solar thermal and photovoltaic. Solar thermal energy harvesting offers the distinct ability to both utilize the full solar spectrum and provide dispatchable electrical power to the grid. By contrast, the generation of power via the …
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Piezoelectric-based Multi-Scale Multi-Environment Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is a technology for generating electrical power from ambient or wasted energy. It has been investigated extensively as a means of powering small electronic devices. The recent proliferation of devices with ultra-low power consumption - devices such as RF transmitters, sensors, and …
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Processing, Structure and Properties of High Temperature Thermoelectric Oxide Materials
High temperature thermal energy harvesting has attracted much attention recently. In order to achieve stable operation at high temperatures there is emerging need to develop efficient and oxidation-resistant materials. Most of the well-known materials with high dimensionless figure of merit (ZT) …
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Dielectric and pyroelectric susceptibilities of epitaxial ferroelectric thin films
… due to the displacement of 90° domain walls and thermal expansion mismatch with the substrate. The primary advances made herein that enable this are the development of a polydomain GLD model to predict ferroelectric susceptibilities, the development of a hard-mask technique for the fabrication …