Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection

Regulating energy from tiny sources such from ambient vibration to supply a continuous energy to power an electronics device is a beneficial and challenging work to do. Having very small energy usually less than 1 V, needs a boost circuit to power up the device. This paper shows that the passive com...

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Main Authors: Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah, Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Khan, Sheroz, Azman, Amelia Wong
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Published: IEEE 2013
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spelling iium-515182019-02-11T04:43:08Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51518/ Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul Khan, Sheroz Azman, Amelia Wong TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Regulating energy from tiny sources such from ambient vibration to supply a continuous energy to power an electronics device is a beneficial and challenging work to do. Having very small energy usually less than 1 V, needs a boost circuit to power up the device. This paper shows that the passive components of a conventional boost converter play an important role to boost very small voltage. This paper also presents that switching frequency effects to boost voltage. Transient analyses have been performed using PSpice simulation tool to check the circuit response to various parameter changes. The proposed circuit with components L=160 µH, RL=10 kΩ and switching frequency fS=1 kHz with duty cycle D=0.5 results optimum performance of the circuit. This voltage converter is suitable for vibration energy harvesting having low frequency applications in kHz range. The application of this converter is expected to be in automotive, healthcare and industrial field. IEEE 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51518/1/51518_Boost_converter_for_low_voltage_energy_harvesting_applications.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51518/2/51518_Boost_converter_for_low_voltage_energy_harvesting_SCOPUS.pdf Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah and Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul and Khan, Sheroz and Azman, Amelia Wong (2013) Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection. In: IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA), 26th-27th Nov. 2013, Kuala Lumpur. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717922 10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717922
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah
Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul
Khan, Sheroz
Azman, Amelia Wong
Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
description Regulating energy from tiny sources such from ambient vibration to supply a continuous energy to power an electronics device is a beneficial and challenging work to do. Having very small energy usually less than 1 V, needs a boost circuit to power up the device. This paper shows that the passive components of a conventional boost converter play an important role to boost very small voltage. This paper also presents that switching frequency effects to boost voltage. Transient analyses have been performed using PSpice simulation tool to check the circuit response to various parameter changes. The proposed circuit with components L=160 µH, RL=10 kΩ and switching frequency fS=1 kHz with duty cycle D=0.5 results optimum performance of the circuit. This voltage converter is suitable for vibration energy harvesting having low frequency applications in kHz range. The application of this converter is expected to be in automotive, healthcare and industrial field.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah
Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul
Khan, Sheroz
Azman, Amelia Wong
author_facet Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah
Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul
Khan, Sheroz
Azman, Amelia Wong
author_sort Che Mustapha, Nurul Arfah
title Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
title_short Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
title_full Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
title_fullStr Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
title_full_unstemmed Boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
title_sort boost converter for low voltage energy harvesting applications: basic component selection
publisher IEEE
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/51518/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/51518/1/51518_Boost_converter_for_low_voltage_energy_harvesting_applications.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51518/2/51518_Boost_converter_for_low_voltage_energy_harvesting_SCOPUS.pdf
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