Energy Engineering and Management

Energy Engineering and Management

Autonomous Wireless Heat Energy Meter Based on Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Heat Energy Measurement in Building Complexes

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Siamak Jafarpisheh
Ahmadreza Tabesh
Nasrin Rezaei Hosseinabadi
Mohammad Amin Latify
Hamid Reza Karshenas
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
10.22052/jeem.2023.113606
Abstract
This paper presents a platform for a power-autonomous wireless energy meter device using piezoelectric energy harvesters. This device can mainly be used for measuring the share of heat energy consumption in a fair manner in building complexes with central heat energy systems. In the suggested device, the piezoelectric energy harvester is also used as a flow-meter to reduce the power consumption of the device. Such event facilitates power autonomous operation of the device. The performance of the devices is investigated based on a prototype which has been used under a test condition with a flow rate from 100 up to 200 liters per hour. Comparing the test results with those having been recorded based on a standard hall-effect flow meter, as a reference sensor, verifies the multi-function operation of piezoelectric energy harvester as a flow sensor within the device.
Keywords
Heat measurement
piezoelectric energy harvesters
piezoelectric flow-meters
smart buildings

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Energy Engineering and Management
Volume 13, Issue 1
Winter 2023
Pages 2-11