U.S. Egypt Cooperative Resarch: Power Management Circuit for Micropower Thermoelectric Generators with Low-Voltage Startup

美埃合作研究：低压启动微功率温差发电机电源管理电路

• 批准号: 1004201
• 负责人: Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1004201&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Egypt; Cooperative; Resarch; Power

AbstractThis project supports collaborative research between Dr. E Sanchez-Sinencio, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University and Dr. Ahmed Nader Mohieldin, Cairo University in Egypt. The research will focus on the development of a power management circuit that can provide power to systems or devices where battery replacement or remote charging is unpractical or simply not feasible. These include biomedical and industrial wireless sensors, home and building automation systems, and automated meter reading. Intellectual Merit. The proposed research addresses the need to demonstrate, design and measure, a power management unit (PMU) with a low startup voltage that operates from a compact power supply such as thermoelectric generators (TEG). These generators convert ambient environmental energy into electrical energy but to be effective in changing environments, a power management unit is needed. The PI?s will use TEGs and low cost complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology to develop the PMU. The approach will reduce the required TEG output voltage, and therefore its area; and it will extend the operating temperature range of a given size of the TEG. Broader Impact. The reduced size and wide operating temperature range of the overall energy harvesting solution will be very attractive to size-sensitive applications. The two PIs will train three graduate students (including domestic and under-represented groups) in individual and team research projects using state-of-the-art CMOS technologies. Project results will be disseminated through IEEE journals and conferences, workshops, and seminars open to all graduate students. The results will be incorporated into the syllabi of both undergraduate and graduate courses. The project is funded under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to undertake cooperative research.

该项目支持德克萨斯农工大学德州工程实验站电气和计算机工程系E Sanchez-Sinencio博士和埃及开罗大学Ahmed Nader Mohieldin博士之间的合作研究。这项研究将专注于开发一种电源管理电路，可以为电池更换或远程充电不切实际或根本不可行的系统或设备提供电力。其中包括生物医学和工业无线传感器、家庭和建筑自动化系统以及自动抄表。智力上的功绩。这项拟议的研究解决了演示、设计和测量具有低启动电压的电源管理单元(PMU)的需要，该PMU由热电发电机(TEG)等紧凑型电源运行。这些发电机将环境能量转换为电能，但为了在不断变化的环境中有效地工作，需要一个电源管理单元。皮？S将使用TGS和低成本互补金属氧化物半导体(CMOS)技术来开发PMU。该方法将降低所需的TEG输出电压，从而降低TEG的面积；并且它将扩展给定尺寸的TEG的工作温度范围。更广泛的影响。整个能量收集溶液的尺寸减小和工作温度范围宽，对于尺寸敏感的应用将非常有吸引力。这两个私人投资主任将培训三名研究生(包括家庭和代表性不足的群体)，使用最先进的CMOS技术进行个人和团队研究项目。项目成果将通过IEEE期刊和会议、研讨会和研讨会向所有研究生开放。研究结果将纳入本科生和研究生课程的教学大纲。该项目由美国-埃及联合基金计划资助，该计划向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展合作研究。