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Asian Journal of Engineering, Sciences and Technology - Volume 10, Issue 1 2020
By Ghalib Nadeem, Muhammad Kashif Majeed, Syed Sheraz Mohani
Keywords: Energy Generation Floor, Energy Harvesting, Green Energy, Piezoelectric Generation, Renewable Energy
In this age of Information Technology, energy is essential in our everyday lives. The contemporary world requires a huge quantity of power to satisfy current demands. As a result, alternative sources of energy are needed not only to sustain gap between power supply and demand, but also to be pollution free, ecologically friendly, and sustainable. One of the very accessible natural energy sources is our own human body. Energy is frequently extracted from the human body, such as vibration energy, heat energy, kinetic energy, to name a few. The motive of this paper is to collect energy by the pressure of movement of human body. The primary rationale for pursuing this energy collecting method is harvesting kinetic energies in a maintainable way of producing electricity without depleting natural resources. Harvesting refers to the process of collecting energy from the environment that would otherwise be squandered and turning it into useable electric energy. In this paper the harvesting is achieved by using a piezoelectric material (PZT) called piezoelectric disc. This disk is put under the floor mats. When a person jumps, runs or walks on the piezoelectric floor, energy is collected and stored. The output is to charge the battery using PZT material and make battery live longer for any application.