Renewable energy harvesting for low power wireless monitoring networks
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2017-11-01
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IACSIT Press
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Journal of Clean Energy Technologies
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—Energy Harvesting Technologies for wireless
electronics networks have undergone a tremendous
development in the recent past. Several micro level energy
generating units have been developed to convert variety of
renewable energy sources to useable electrical energy. In order
to integrate and exploit maximum benefits from renewable
sources, an intelligent power electronics interface is mandatory.
This paper presents a multiport power electronics circuitry to
extract maximum energy from renewable energy sources and
route it to power up wireless electronics networks. This new
topology has ability to cope with different voltage level
requirements and is capable of integrating several energy
sources to satisfy the variable load demands. The sources can be
utilized independently or concurrently. Surplus energy can also
be stored and made available in case of absence of renewable
energy sources. Analytical and simulation results in Continuous
Conduction mode are presented and are validated by
experimental results on a prototype model
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Journal of Clean Energy Technologies, 2017, 5 (6), pp. 448 - 453