Design and Development of Triboelectric Blue Energy Harvester
Pranjali Chakole1, Vishal Rathee2, Jayu Kalambe3, Prasanna Kulkarni4, Suresh S. Balpande5

1Pranjali Chakole, Department of Electronics Engineering, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (M.H), India.
2Dr. Prasanna Kulkarni, Department of Physics, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management, Nagpur (M.H), India.
3Dr.Jayu Kalambe, Department of Electronics Engineering, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (M.H), India.
4Prof. Vishal Rathee, Department of Electronics Engineering, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (M.H), India.
5Dr. Suresh Balpande, Department of Electronics Engineering, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (M.H), India.

Manuscript received on 18 June 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 25 June 2019 | Manuscript published on 30 June 2019 | PP: 1278-1283 | Volume-8 Issue-5, June 2019 | Retrieval Number: E7373068519/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: Numerous energy sources like vibration, rotation, spinning, human motion and energy from water wave are being explored for harvesting energy. In this work, Tribo-electric Blue Energy Harvester (TeBEH) has been developed in which water waves i.e. blue energy is used as an energy source. It is preferred due to its enormous and environmentally friendly source of energy. The most of the portion of energy from water wave remains unexplored because absence of efficient advancements. Despite the fact that the conventional water wave based electromagnetic generators are well studied and developed, however, triboelectric nanogenerator has numerous advantages ranging from minimal cost to simple device fabrication. There is a lot of kinetic energy in ocean waves which can be harvested. The structure is made up of acrylic box with copper and aluminum as electrodes in combination with triboelectric material as a dielectric for triboelectrification. Gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs) were grown and embedded in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer to enhance surface charge density in triboelectric layers. The various combinations of tribo-material with electrodes are used to trap the optimized energy. It has been observed that the maximum electric potential of Vpp= 5.10 Volts / Vrms = 2.16 Volts was harvested for (Cu-Au-PDMS)-Cu layer
Keywords: Blue Energy Harvester, Nanoparticles, Polydimethylsiloxane, Triboelectrification

Scope of the Article: Energy Technology