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Digital design of a combine harvester using virtual prototyping

YAN Chuliang, LI Jie, ZHANG Shuming, YANG Fangfei

《机械工程前沿（英文）》 2007年第2卷第2期页码 159-163 doi: 10.1007/s11465-007-0026-6

摘要： A parametric feature-based modeling was used to model the parts of a combine harvester. The digital virtual prototyping of the harvester was completed by virtual assembly. The finite element analysis of the vehicle frame was made and the result satisfied the requirements. The vibration sieve, which is a key part of the combine harvester, was simulated and optimized. The excellent parameters of the vibration were gained by optimization. The grain passed through the sieve easily after the optimization and reduced the loss rate and impurity rate in theory.

关键词： excellent assembly impurity harvester vibration

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Wearable thermal energy harvester powered by human foot

Guodong XU, Yang YANG, Yixin ZHOU, Jing LIU

《能源前沿（英文）》 2013年第7卷第1期页码 26-38 doi: 10.1007/s11708-012-0215-9

摘要： With explosive applications of many advanced mobile electronic devices, a pervasive energy system with long term sustainability becomes increasingly important. Among the many efforts ever tried, human power is rather unique due to its independence of weather or geographical conditions and is therefore becoming a research focus. This paper is dedicated to demonstrate the possibility and feasibility of harvesting thermal energy from human body by sandwiching a thermoelectric generator (TEG) between human shoe bottom and ground, aiming to power a portable electronic device. Through the conceptual experiments conducted on adults, a maximum 3.99 mW steady state power output at a ground temperature with 273 K is obtained, which is sufficient enough to drive a lot of micro-electronic devices. Also, parametric simulations are performed to systematically clarify the factors influencing the TEG working performance. To further reveal the mechanism of this power generation modality, analytical solutions to the coupled temperature distributions for human foot and TEG module are obtained and the correlation between TEG characteristics and the output power are studied. It was demonstrated that, the TEG working as a wearable power resource by utilizing thermal energy of human foot shows enormous potential and practical values either under normal or extreme conditions.

关键词： human power thermal energy energy harvesting micro power wearable device

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Evaluation of the power-generation capacity of wearable thermoelectric power generator

Yang YANG, Jing LIU,

《能源前沿（英文）》 2010年第4卷第3期页码 346-357 doi: 10.1007/s11708-010-0112-z

摘要： Employing thermoelectric generators (TEGs) to gather heat dissipating from the human body through the skin surface is a promising way to supply electronic power to wearable and pocket electronics. The uniqueness of this method lies in its direct utilization of the temperature difference between the environment and the human body, and complete elimination of power maintenance problems. However, most of the previous investigations on thermal energy harvesters are confined to the TEG and electronic system themselves because of the low quality of human energy. We evaluate the energy generation capacity of a wearable TEG subject to various conditions based on biological heat transfer theory. Through numerical simulation and corresponding parametric studies, we find that the temperature distribution in the thermopiles affects the criterion of the voltage output, suggesting that the temperature difference in a single point can be adopted as the criterion for uniform temperature distribution. However, the criterion has to be shifted to the sum of temperature difference on each thermocouple when the temperature distribution is inconsistent. In addition, the performance of the thermal energy harvester can be easily influenced by environmental conditions, as well as the physiological state and physical characteristics of the human body. To further validate the calculation results for the wearable TEG, a series of conceptual experiments are performed on a number of typical cases. The numerical simulation provides a good overview of the electricity generation capability of the TEG, which may prove useful in the design of future thermal energy harvesters.

关键词： thermal energy harvester thermoelectric generator biological heat transfer power generating capacity