TY - CHAP

T1 - Fast Supercapacitor Charging for Electromagnetic Converter Systems by Self Powered Boost Circuit

AU - Hamza, Kholoud

AU - Bouattour, Ghada

AU - Bader, Sebastian

AU - Fakhfakh, Ahmed

AU - Kanoun, Olfa

N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for their financial support work within the project: “Strengthening Practice-Oriented Education Program for the Automotive Industry (STEP)”. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Electromagnetic energy harvesting (EM) is an interesting method for obtaining energy from vibration sources to power autonomous wireless sensor systems. This is reached with the help of energy management circuits that can be based on voltage multipliers circuits or boost rectifier circuits. These energy management structures aim to raise the voltage of the EM converter to a level that is adequate for the storage element. In this paper, a dual-mode AC/DC circuit for EM is proposed for fast charging of the supercapacitor. The circuit is based on a boost rectifier and a voltage multiplier using discrete elements and without a startup circuit. This structure can work properly with an EM converter generating power in the range of a few μW. The circuit can work under different frequencies and accelerations. In the first step, the proposed circuit store the energy in a supercapacitor in voltage multiplier mode until it reaches 1.9 V. After that, the supercapacitor will supply the ancillary circuit to activate the boost mode based on bidirectional MOSFETs, which reduce the time to charge the supercapacitor. The maximum power consumption of the ancillary circuit is 34 μW. The experimental investigation shows that the system at acceleration ACC = 0.17 g and Freq = 27 Hz is able to charge the supercapacitor by a voltage of 5.41 V in 7 min. The proposed solution helps to enhance the time to charge comparing conventional voltage multiplier structure by 23 min.

AB - Electromagnetic energy harvesting (EM) is an interesting method for obtaining energy from vibration sources to power autonomous wireless sensor systems. This is reached with the help of energy management circuits that can be based on voltage multipliers circuits or boost rectifier circuits. These energy management structures aim to raise the voltage of the EM converter to a level that is adequate for the storage element. In this paper, a dual-mode AC/DC circuit for EM is proposed for fast charging of the supercapacitor. The circuit is based on a boost rectifier and a voltage multiplier using discrete elements and without a startup circuit. This structure can work properly with an EM converter generating power in the range of a few μW. The circuit can work under different frequencies and accelerations. In the first step, the proposed circuit store the energy in a supercapacitor in voltage multiplier mode until it reaches 1.9 V. After that, the supercapacitor will supply the ancillary circuit to activate the boost mode based on bidirectional MOSFETs, which reduce the time to charge the supercapacitor. The maximum power consumption of the ancillary circuit is 34 μW. The experimental investigation shows that the system at acceleration ACC = 0.17 g and Freq = 27 Hz is able to charge the supercapacitor by a voltage of 5.41 V in 7 min. The proposed solution helps to enhance the time to charge comparing conventional voltage multiplier structure by 23 min.

KW - Boost rectifier

KW - Electromagnetic converter (EM)

KW - Energy Harvesting

KW - Fast charging

KW - Single Stage

KW - Voltage multiplier (VM)

KW - Informatics

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U2 - 10.1109/SSD58187.2023.10411154

DO - 10.1109/SSD58187.2023.10411154

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85185829975

SN - 979-8-3503-3257-5

T3 - International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices

SP - 553

EP - 558

BT - 2023 20th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, SSD 2023

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

CY - Piscataway

T2 - 20th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, SSD 2023

Y2 - 20 February 2023 through 23 February 2023

ER -