Energy Harvesting Systems: Analysis, Design and Optimization
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 19668
Special Issue Editors
Interests: maximum power point tracking techniques in photovoltaic applications; power electronics circuits for renewable energy sources; methods for the analysis, design, and optimization of switching converters; control methods and architectures for the maximization of the energy provided by vibration energy harvesting systems
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Interests: maximum power point tracking techniques in photovoltaic applications; power electronics circuits for renewable energy sources; methods for the analysis, design, and optimization of switching converters; control methods and architectures for the maximization of the energy provided by vibration energy harvesting systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy harvesting is the process by which energy is taken from ambient sources (e.g., solar energy, wind energy, kinetic energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic fields energy, and so on) and converted into electrical energy to be stored or employed to feed loads. Whilst the energy harvesting process is similar in principle to large-scale renewable energy generation (such as wind turbines), the term energy harvesting is typically used to indicate a smaller amount of produced power ranging from μWs to kWs. In such a great variety of applications, the design and optimization of the complete energy harvesting system (transduction mechanism, architecture, power electronics interface, control technique, and so on) is of crucial importance. In fact, optimal exploitation of the source avoids the waste of precious energy that unavoidably leads to the unnecessary oversizing of the entire system and results in an increase of weights, volumes, and costs. Therefore, the goal of this Special Issue is as follows:
- To focus on the latest scientific results and advances in the Analysis, Design, and optimization of energy harvesting systems;
- To bring together scientists adopting several approaches, working on the abovementioned topics;
- To promote and share as much as possible top-level research in the field of energy harvesting systems.
This Special Issue is open to both original research articles and review articles covering (but not limited to) the analysis, design, and optimization of energy harvesting systems based on the following sources:
- Photovoltaic sources;
- Vibrations (piezoelectric, electromagnetic, electrostatic, and magnetostrictive harvesters);
- Micro wind turbines;
- Thermoelectric generators;
- Regenerative suspensions systems (automotive and railway applications);
- Other innovative energy harvesters (rainfall, electromagnetic fields, pyroelectric, bistable systems for satellites applications).
Dr. Luigi Costanzo
Prof. Dr. Massimo Vitelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Energy harvesting
- Vibration energy
- Piezoelectric harvesters
- Electromagnetic harvesters
- Magnetostrictive harvesters
- Electrostatic harvesters
- Photovoltaic
- Micro wind turbines
- Thermoelectric generators
- Train suspension energy harvesters
- Car suspension energy harvesters
- Rail track vibration energy harvesters
- Rainfall energy harvesters
- Electromagnetic fields energy harvesters.
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