To enable the smart technologies, such as the positive train controls, rail damage detection and track health monitoring on the railroad side, the electricity is required and in needed. In this paper, we proposed a novel ball-screw based electromagnetic energy harvester for railway track with mechanical-motion-rectifier (MMR) mechanism, to harvest the energy that usually dissipated and wasted during train induced track vibration. Ball screw based design reduces backlash during motion transmission, and MMR nonlinear characteristics with one way clutches makes the harvester convert the bi-direction track vibration into a generator’s unidirectional rotation, which improves the transmission reliability and increases the energy harvesting efficiency. A systematic model combining train-rail-harvester was established to analyze the dynamic characteristic of the proposed railway energy, and lab and in-field tests were carried out to experimentally characterize the proposed energy harvester. In lab bench test showed the proposed harvester reached a 70% mechanical efficiency with a high sensitivity to the environment vibration. In filed test showed that a peak 7.8W phase power was achieved when a two marshaling type A metro train passed by with a 30 km/h.


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    Title :

    A compact ball screw based electromagnetic energy harvester for railroad application


    Contributors:
    Pan, Yu (author) / Lin, Teng (author) / Liu, Cheng (author) / Yu, Jie (author) / Zuo, Jianyong (author) / Zuo, Lei (author)

    Conference:

    Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, Civil Infrastructure, and Transportation XII ; 2018 ; Denver,Colorado,United States


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10599


    Publication date :

    2018-03-27





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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