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Asian Journal of Engineering, Sciences and Technology - Volume 8, Issue 1 2018
By Tashfeen Ali, Farid Ullah Khan
Keywords: Damping, Energy harvesting, Low cost fabrication, Piezoelectric, Vibration isolator
A vibration isolator with energy harvesting abilities is presented in this work. The developed device is able to isolate the environment from vibration of appliances such as electrical generators and automobile's engine etc. and convert the vibration to electrical energy. The resulting energy produced from the energy harvester can be used to power the condition monitoring unit The developed device was able to exhibit a resonance at 56 Hz frequency. 1.7 V open circuit voltage was reported for the developed harvester at 2 g acceleration. Moreover, the maximum power delivered to the optimum load of 340 k? was 1.1 mW.