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SEMINAR REPORT
Submitted By
JITHIN MATHEW
(19131416)
(7th Semester, B.Tech.)
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this seminar report entitled Human Powered Wireless Charger
is a bonafide record of the seminar done by Jithin Mathew (Reg No:19131416) under
our guidance towards the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of B.Tech
degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the Cochin University of Science and
Technology during the year 2015 - 2016.
Seminar Coordinator
Mrs. Sonima M P
Assistant Professor
Seminar Coordinator
Seminar Coordinator
Mrs. Binimol.V.K
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is the most satisfying, yet most difficult part of the project to present gratifying words
because most often they fail to convey the real influence, others have had on ones Life or
work. First and foremost, I give thanks to Almighty, who gave the inner strength, resource and ability to complete the work successfully. I extremely grateful to the Principal
Dr.Roobin V Varghese, College of Engineering Kidangoor, for providing me with best facilities for this creative work. I wish to thank Mrs. Binimol V.K Head of the Department,
Department of Electrical And Electronics Engineering for her support throughout this
Seminar work. I also thank seminar coordinators Mrs.Sonima M P ,Mrs. Salini M Venugopal, Ms. Nimmy Berchmans for their help and co-operation. I gratefully acknowledge
all the staff members of our department for extending their cooperation during seminar.
Above all, I owe my gratitude to my beloved Parents and relatives who have been pillars
of support and constant encouragement throughout the course of this seminar.
Jithin Mathew
(Reg No:19131416)
Abstract
Human Powered Wireless Charger (HPWC) is a device, which harvests kinetic
energy of human body and transmit it as electrical energy wirelessly. It is designed on the
basis of Faradays electromagnetic induction law. HPWC mainly consists of two units a
Human Power Harvesting (HPH) unit and Receiving Unit (RU). The HPH store human
kinetic energy in magnets and transmits to receiving unit wirelessly using electromagnetic
induction.
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
2.1
2.2
2.3
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4.1
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4.2
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6 Advantages of HPWC
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7 Limitations
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8 Future scope
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9 Conclution
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List of Figures
2.1
3.1
The structure diagram of HPWC: (a) The overall structure of HPWC; (b)
The mounting position of each part of HPWC.
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3.2
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3.3
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4.1
Changes of open-circuit voltage of HPWC with Coil when hand crank revolving frequencies are 0.5Hz, 1Hz and 1.5Hz, respectively.
4.2
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Coil with a load of 62, output performances of HPWC change with time
when working frequency of hand crank is 0.5Hz, 1Hz and 1.5Hz, respectively. 16
5.1
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5.2
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5.3
The structure of the receiver and transmitter: (a) The receiver; (b) The
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transmitter.
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INTRODUCTION
Recent years statistics shown that the energy consumption in power grid steeply increased. Of the reasons analyzed increase in usage of portable devices like cellphone, Music
player, laptop, Power Banks subjected to be the one. As an alternative, human power with
green and sustainable features has attracted an increasing interest in the last few years. In
fact, human power is rich enough to support the low-power mobile electronic devices.
With the introduction of ultra-low power IC and advancement in electronics power consumption in mobile devices considerably reduced. There by human power gradually becomes an important alternative to supply electricity. In fact, such energy is strong enough
to power most of the mobile electric devices. According to measurement, more than 60W
electricity can be easily generated by arm motion from an adult. Many successful human
power generators (HPG) have thus been developed such as: shoe mounted magnetic generator, boot mounted dielectric elastomer generator, shoe mounted piezoelectric generator,
backpack mounted generator, knee mounted magnetic generator, tube magnetic generator, liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics generator, thermoelectric generator and so on.
Therefore, HPGs can be well suited for powering the wearable and implantable devices,
such as cellphone, LED, MP4, computer, power banks and so on.
Even though human energy harvesters are successfully experimented, the need of wires to
supply or huge charge storing devices make them inconvenient in usage. In order to meet
the demand of frequent, fast and instant charging for mobile electronic products by consumers, wireless charging is now drawing a great deal of attention. The technology of the
wireless electric energy transmission (WEET) can deliver electricity power from one point
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to another through atmosphere or vacuum via an inductive coupled device without using
wires or connectors. More than comfort problems wires and connectors used in traditional
human powered systems can leads to many hazardous accidents for human being.
Considering comfort and safety facts, design and development of a system that can harvest human energy instantly and transmit electricity wirelessly become a need. A Human
Powered Wireless Charger is such a system that is being capable to generate electricity
from human power and transmit instantly to low power mobile devices. Human Powered
wireless charger (HPWC) is the perfect power delivery approach in the dangerous environment such as humidity, dust, underwater, gas, mining; it is also highly appropriate for the
mobile electronic devices such as mobile phone, electric shavers, and electric toothbrushes.
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2.1
mainly harvests the kinetic energy of human body, which is produced by the muscle of
body parts such as hand, arm, finger, leg and so on. In detail, muscle converts metabolism
energy into kinetic energy with the maximum conversion efficiency of 25% . In HPWC,
using a hand crank, the kinetic energy of hand rotary motion can be collected and then
delivered to magnet via transmission mechanism. In order to increase the revolving speed
of magnet, four gears meshing with each other were employed as the transmission mechanism. According to the definition of transmission ratio, one has:
i1 = n1 /n2 = z2 /z1
(1)
i2 = n2 /n3 = z3 /z2
(2)
i3 = n3 /n4 = z4 /z3
(3)
where,i1 , i2 and i3 are the transmission ratios of the first and second gear, the second
and third gear, and the third and fourth respectively. n1 , n2 , n3 and n4 are the revolving
speed of the first, second, third and fourth gear. z1 , z2 , z3 and z4 are the teeth number of the
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first, second, third and fourth gear, respectively. Combining (1), (2) and (3), the revolving
speed of the fourth gear can be expressed as:
(4)
Therefore, when the teeth number of each gear is known, the revolving speed of the fourth
gear is proportional to the first gear.
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magnetic induction through a magnetic field, which would be setup in the mobile
As Fig. i(a) shows, a receiver is placed above the magnet with four pairs of poles distributed in the circumference. In addition, the coil in the receiver is sandwiched between
two pieces of claw-type poles by rivet, which is shown in Fig. i(b). In order to meet the
poles distribution of magnet, each piece of claw-type pole has four claws. And the relative position of two claw-type poles in the receiver is revealed as Fig. i(d). When these
two pieces of poles are placed in magnetic field of the magnet, they would be magnetized.
Based on the structure of the claw-type poles and magnet, when the magnet is rotated by
human power along one direction at a fixed frequency, the polarity of claw-type pole would
change periodically. In detail, when the magnet makes one turn, the polarity of claw-type
pole would change four times. In that case, a cyclically changing magnetic field could be
produced around the coil in the receiver. As a result, a voltage would be produced at the
two ends of the coil, which also changes periodically as the claw-type pole does. Finally,
driven by human power, HPWC can provide power to electronic devices without the use
of conventional wires or cables.
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Figure 2.1: The schematic diagram of wireless power transfer in HPWC: (a) Form of
power wireless transfer in HPWC; (b) The structure of the receiver; (c) Poles distribution
of magnet; (d) Relative position of two claw-type poles in receiver.
2.3
E= N./t
(5)
where, E is the induced voltage of coil in receiver, is the magnetic flux through the
coil, N is the number of coil turns and /t is the changing rate of magnetic flux. To
maximize /t should be close to zero. In addition, because of the short distance between two claw-type poles, the magnetic field around the coil is assumed as uniform, so
the maximum value of induced voltage of coil in the receiver can be written as:
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Em = N.B.S.2F
(6)
where, B is the magnetic induction intensity, S is the area of coil, and f is the changing frequency of magnet field. Based on the principle of wireless power transfer in HPWC
as mentioned above, the output voltage of HPWC changes periodically, which is analogous
to a single-phase alternator. Therefore, when the magnet rotates at a frequency, the output
voltage of the receiver coil in HPWC can also be mathematically expressed as:
u = Um sin(2ft+)
(7)
where, u is the output voltage of coil in the receiver, Um is the maximum value of output
voltage of the coil, t is time, 0 is the starting phase angle of u . Changing Um into
Em =N.B.S.2F, then (7) can be transformed as:
u = Em sin(2ft+)
= N.B.S.2F.sin(2ft+0 )
(8)
For HPWC, f depends on the revolving speed of magnet and the number of the magnet poles, which can be expressed as:
f = n4 p
u = N.B.S.2F.sin(2ft+0 )
= N.B.S.2n4 p.sin(2ft+0 )
(10)
Combining (4) and (10), the output voltage of the receiver coil in HPWC can be defined as:
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N.B.S.2n1 /[(z2 /z1 ).(z3 /z2 ).(z4 /z3 )].p. sin(2n1 .pt/[(z2 /z1 ).(z3 /z2 ).(z4 /z3 )]+0
(11)
From (11) one can see that the maximum value of output voltage depends on the number of coil turns, the magnetic induction of magnetic field, area of the coil, the revolving
speed of hand crank, transmission ratios of the gear train and the pole number of magnet.
When the magnet and the transmission mechanism are fixed, dimensions of coil in the
receiver and the revolving speed of hand crank are two important factors to influence the
performance of HPWC. Therefore, in the following experiment, the influences on HPWC
by these two elements will be presented respectively.
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From Fig.3.1 one can also see the mounting position of the receiver in HPWC. In this
experiment, the receiver was placed on the outside surface of the top housing, which is
also above the magnet during the whole experimental process. Through measurement, the
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Figure 3.1: The structure diagram of HPWC: (a) The overall structure of HPWC; (b) The
mounting position of each part of HPWC.
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distance between receiver and magnet was 3mm. As Fig. 2.1 and 3.1 show, the face with
claw-type pole B of the receiver is close to magnet.The mounting position of the copper
coil is illustrated as Fig.2.1. Moreover, the two claw-type poles and rivet are made of
electrical pure iron. As Fig. 3.1 shows, the supporting system of HPWC mainly contains a
bearing, top and bottom housings, which are employed to fix and support the other parts
of HPWC. All of the parts in the supporting system are made of organic glass.
Fig. 3.2 and fig. 3.3 is the photograph of the experimental prototype. The dimension of
the equipment is 90mm50mm28mm. In detail, the testing chart of open-circuit HPWC
and HPWC with a load are shown as Fig. 3.2 and 3.3, respectively. All the voltage data
in this experiment were collected by oscilloscope.
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receiver when a male test subject twirls the hand crank at frequencies of 0.5Hz, 1Hz and
1.5Hz respectively. From this chart, one can see that the open-circuit voltage of HPWC
with Coil A changes like a sinusoidal wave when the revolving speeds of hand crank are
30r/min, 60r/min and 90r/min, which agrees well with the theoretical analysis.
the maximum open-circuit voltage of HPWC with Coil( No of turns, N= 600, Wire diameter of coil= 0.12mm, outer diameter of coil D1 = 20, Inner diameter of coil D2 =
6mm,Resistance of coil = 56.6 ) is aboutis about 1000mV, 700mV and 370mV when the
hand crank rotation frequencies are 1.5Hz, 1Hz and 0.5 Hz respectively Furthermore, it
can be observed that the maximum open-circuit voltage of HPWC with Coil increases with
the working frequency of hand crank. Thus, when the dimension of copper coil and the
configuration of magnet are fixed, the maximum open-circuit voltage of HPWC increases
only with the working frequency of hand crank,
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Figure 4.1: Changes of open-circuit voltage of HPWC with Coil when hand crank revolving
frequencies are 0.5Hz, 1Hz and 1.5Hz, respectively.
4.2
of HPWC are indicated in Fig. 6, wherein the test revolving frequencies of hand crank are
0.5Hz, 1Hz and 1.5Hz respectively. From Fig.4.2 one can see that the output voltage also
changes as a sine wave and the change periods of the output voltage at different revolving
speeds of hand crank are coincident with the calculated ones. Moreover the maximum
output voltage of HPWC with a load of 62 is about 370mV, 300 mV and 200 mV, when
the revolving frequencies of hand crank are 1.5 Hz, 1 Hz and 0.5Hz. It also can be observed
that the maximum output voltage of HPWC with a load increases with the revolving frequency of hand crank when the magnet and coil are fixed.
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Figure 4.2: Coil with a load of 62, output performances of HPWC change with time when
working frequency of hand crank is 0.5Hz, 1Hz and 1.5Hz, respectively.
In addition, based on the computing method of effective value of alternating voltage,
the effective value of output voltage of HPWC can be written as:
U = Um / 2
(13)
where, U is the effective value of output voltage of HPWC. The output effective power
of HPWC can be calculated as:
P = (Um )2 /2RL
(14)
where, P is the effective value of output power of HPWC and R is the resistance of the
load.
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The main function of the HPH is to collect the human power, and then transfer it to
the RU part. As Fig.5.2 shows, the HPH mainly contains human power transmission parts,
a transmitter and supporting components. In addition, human power transmission parts
are comprised of a hand crank, four gears, a clutch and four axes. The operation principle
of these transmission parts is that when a hand turns the hand crank, the first gear which
is fixed to the hand crank begins to move, then the human kinetic energy is transferred to
the clutch through the four gears which mesh with each other orderly. It is worthy to note
that the transmission ratio of the first gear unit is i1=12:35=0.34, while for the second one
the
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(where nhc ,nms are the revolving speed of the hand crank and magnet seat respectively).
Moreover, the transmitter is comprised of a magnet seat and eight magnets, which is also
shown in Fig.5.3. When the clutch moves, the magnet seat driven by the clutch starts to
rotate in one direction. At the same time, inlaid in the magnet seat, the eight magnets begin to revolve with the magnet seat synchronously. The rotation of these magnets produces
a time-varying magnetic field around them. Finally, through the transmission mechanism
and the transmitter, the human kinetic energy is converted into a kind of time-varying
magnetic field energy successfully. The supporting components which are employed to
support and fix the other parts of the HPH consist of a bearing, a top housing and a
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bottom housing. All the parts of the supporting components are made of organic glass.
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Figure 5.3: The structure of the receiver and transmitter: (a) The receiver; (b) The
transmitter.
The function of RU is to generate electricity by the induction effectiveness in the timevarying magnetic field produced by the transmitter, and then convert the electricity power
into a stable DC to meet the requirement of the cellphone lithium battery. In order to
achieve this function, RU is comprised of a receiver and a converter, which is revealed as
Fig.5.2. When using the HCCC to charge a cellphone, it should make sure that the receiver
is put above the transmitter so that it can couple with the transmitter closely. In this case,
the gap between the receiver and transmitter is 3mm which is comprised of the thickness
of RU (1mm), three air layers (1mm) and the thickness of HPH (1mm). The output port
of receiver is connected to the input port of the converter directly. The output end of the
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(16)
Thus the changing frequency of the induced voltage produced by the receiver is
fv = 280nhc
(17)
In order to meet the charging requirement of the lithium battery in the cellphone, a
converter is used to transform the electricity generated by the copper coil. This power
converter is mainly comprised of a diode, a capacitor (100 F /10V), a resistance (460),
a zener diode (Z6V) and a triode, which is shown as the circuit diagram in Fig.5.4. Through
rectification, filtering, stabilivolt and amplification, the input alternating voltage can be
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changed into a stable direct voltage of 6V. In Fig.5.4, the input voltage of the converter Uin
is the output voltage of the receiverUR , and the Uout is the output voltage of the converter
Uc .
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Advantages of HPWC
No traditional plug ,jack and wire.
Utilises human power more conveniently.
No batteries required.
Safety from short circuiting.
Easily portable and low cost.
Green and sustainable charger.
Energy conservation and environmental protection.
Instant charging solution in travelling, work site, critical situations etc.
Generation is absolutely free from effects of climatic conditions.
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Limitations
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Future scope
1. Besides half wave rectification in converters full wave rectification can be implemented
for high output voltage.
2. It is shown that transmission efficiency depends on the revolving speed of the magnet,
from this inference the revolving speed of the proposed system can be improved by
enabling rotation of coil in receiving unit in opposite direction of rotation of magnet
in HPH unit.
3. Pedal powered laptops can be implemented in remote areas where power supply is
not much available.
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Conclution
The vast possibilities of human powered wireless charger studied and analyzed. I found
that human power harvesting is a vast area in which a lot of researches are undertaking.
Presently the system is in the stage of development and it is effectively experimented
in cell phone charging unit. Improving the revolving speed and strength of magnet in
transmitting device transmission efficiency can be improved. implementation of suitable
rectification units also can considerably improve overall system efficiency.
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