Renewable energy rain or sunshine - harvesting droplet kinetic energy on transparent thin films

可再生能源雨或阳光——在透明薄膜上收集液滴动能

• 批准号: 2595926
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2595926
• 关键词: Renewable; energy; rain; sunshine; harvesting

The grand vision of "Internet of Things" (IoT) behind a sustainable smart world requires billions of sensor nodes. This brings the urgency of developing self-powered devices with energy harvesting mechanisms that are sustainable, maintenance free, and with long lifetimes. However, there is still a lack of desired "all-rounder" 24/7 energy harvesting solution, efficient at mixed ambient conditions - raining or sunshine, day and night.The proposed method is to integrate transparent thin film (reported recently in journal Nature, page392, 2020) rain-drop energy harvesting technologies, making it possible to be integrated with solar energy harvesters to continuously power next generation sensor nodes rain or sunshine.In addition, thermal energy recovery (reported in Energy Sustainability in Built and Urban Environments, pp255, 2019) will also be investigated, to potentially power the device, or facilitate freshwater production from the water collected during raining.The core research will focus on creating and characterising electro-mechanical device configurations and thin-film material properties to improve overall energy harvesting efficiently.

可持续智能世界背后的“物联网”（物联网）的宏伟愿景需要数十亿个传感器节点。这带来了开发具有可持续性，无维护且寿命长的能源收集机制的自动设备的紧迫性。 However, there is still a lack of desired "all-rounder" 24/7 energy harvesting solution, efficient at mixed ambient conditions - raining or sunshine, day and night.The proposed method is to integrate transparent thin film (reported recently in journal Nature, page392, 2020) rain-drop energy harvesting technologies, making it possible to be integrated with solar energy harvesters to continuously power next generation sensor nodes rain or sunshine.In另外，还将研究热能回收（在建筑环境和城市环境中的能源可持续性中报道，PP255，2019）还将进行研究，以潜在地为设备供电，或者促进雨水中收集的水的淡水生产。核心研究将着重于创建和表征电力机械设备配置和薄纤维材料的特性，以提高整体能源收获。