TY - JOUR
T1 - Scavenging low-speed breeze wind energy using a triboelectric nanogenerator installed inside a square variable diameter channel
AU - Zhu, Wenxuan
AU - Hu, Chaosheng
AU - Bowen, Chris R.
AU - Wang, Zhong Lin
AU - Yang, Ya
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Key R & D Project from Minister of Science and Technology in China (No. 2021YFA1201604 ), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52072041 ), and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. Y8540XX2D2 ).
PY - 2022/9/30
Y1 - 2022/9/30
N2 - Over the recent years, triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) have received widespread attention as a simple and efficient energy harvesting device. However, how to collect the breeze in daily life is an important issue that need to be solved for wind-powered triboelectric nanogenerator (W-TENG). Here, we propose a method of connecting a square variable diameter channel to the previously studied double-ended fixed W-TENG, which realizes the collection of energy in the breeze. As a result, after adding channels, the starting wind speed of W-TENG is optimized to as low as 0.4 m s−1, with an average output voltage of 6.1 V. This method not only enables W-TENG to start at the ultra-low wind speed, but also improves the output performance. When the external wind velocity is 2.0 m s−1, the output voltage is increased by 10.6 times after adding the channel structure. This work provides a good strategy for collecting the breeze without changing the original structure of the W-TENG, fully demonstrating the advantages of energy harvesting under the low wind velocity.
AB - Over the recent years, triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) have received widespread attention as a simple and efficient energy harvesting device. However, how to collect the breeze in daily life is an important issue that need to be solved for wind-powered triboelectric nanogenerator (W-TENG). Here, we propose a method of connecting a square variable diameter channel to the previously studied double-ended fixed W-TENG, which realizes the collection of energy in the breeze. As a result, after adding channels, the starting wind speed of W-TENG is optimized to as low as 0.4 m s−1, with an average output voltage of 6.1 V. This method not only enables W-TENG to start at the ultra-low wind speed, but also improves the output performance. When the external wind velocity is 2.0 m s−1, the output voltage is increased by 10.6 times after adding the channel structure. This work provides a good strategy for collecting the breeze without changing the original structure of the W-TENG, fully demonstrating the advantages of energy harvesting under the low wind velocity.
KW - Energy harvesting
KW - Low-speed breezes
KW - Triboelectric nanogenerators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131829286&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107453
DO - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107453
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131829286
VL - 100
JO - Nano Energy
JF - Nano Energy
SN - 2211-2855
M1 - 107453
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