Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 12, No 6: June 2014

Energy Harvesting Device Based on Spatial Electric Field in Substations

Hongwei Li (Technology College, State Grid Corporation of China)
Ganrong Peng (State Grid Jinan Power Supply Company)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2014

Abstract

It is rich in electric field energy in high voltage substations while it is hardly collected and utilized. A novel energy harvesting device based on spatial electric field is presented in this paper, which is composed of capacitive energy collector and conditioning circuit. A simulation model of the energy collector is established to study the relationship between output voltage and its structural parameters and is verified by no-load tests. There are some restraining factors such as output voltage unstable in the traditional conditioning circuit. A new conditioning circuit is designed to overcome the problems and this new circuit is more effectively. This paper designs a new device to harvest the electric field energy within substations and it can provide broad potential use in the future.

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