| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 171, 2018
The First International Conference on Energy, Power, Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering (E3PE 2017)
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| Article Number | 02001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Chapter 2: Energy Management Systems | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201817102001 | |
| Published online | 04 June 2018 | |
A Novel Design of Water-Flow Based Electrical Generator as an Energy Harvesting Device
1 Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt College of Engineering, AlJouf University, Saudi Arabia
2 Network Planning Department, National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), Cairo, Egypt
3 Alexandria Higher Institute of Engineering & Technology (AIET), Alexandria, Egypt
* E-mail: ziedan092@yahoo.com
** E-mail: imfayed@ju.edu.sa
*** E-mail: alaaabofard@yahoo.com
This paper is aimed to investigate, experimentally, new two designs of Energy Harvesting Device: Water-Flow Based Electrical Generator (WEG). This device directly converts the motion of water inside a permanent magnet tube to electricity. Its output power is affected by several parameters such as permanent-magnet tube diameter, its length, water velocity and the concentration of minerals in the water (fresh, sewage or sea water). The relationship and dependency of these parameters are examined experimentally to obtain a set of graphs which can determine the suitability and performance of the proposed model for different applications. Advantages of these new models are clean power resource, simple and non-expensive design. The output power of these generators can power or recharge cell phones, mobile computers, radio communication equipment, stairs lighting of residential towers, commercial street signs, inside sea signs, etc.
Key words: Energy harvesting devices / Water-Flow Based Electrical Generator (WEG) / Permanent magnet tube / Water velocity
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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