Waste Energy Harvesting [electronic resource] : Mechanical and Thermal Energies / by Ling Bing Kong, Tao Li, Huey Hoon Hng, Freddy Boey, Tianshu Zhang, Sean Li.
Series: Lecture Notes in Energy ; 24Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: XII, 592 p. 331 illus., 64 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783642546341
- 621.042 23
- TK1001-1841

Introduction -- Waste Mechanical Energy Harvesting (I) - Piezoelectric Effect -- Waste Mechanical Energy Harvesting (II) - Nanopiezoelectric Effect -- Waste Thermal Energy Harvesting (I) - Thermoelectric Effect -- Waste Thermal Energy Harvesting (II) - Pyroelectric Effect and Others -- Waste Thermal Energy Harvesting (III) - Storage with Phase Change Materials.
This book overviews the latest progress in waste energy harvesting technologies, with specific focusing on waste thermal mechanical energies. Waste mechanical energy harvesting technologies use the piezoelectric (ferroelectric) effect with ferroelectric materials and nanogenerators. Thermal energy harvesting technologies use the thermoelectric effect, the pyroelectric effect and storage through phase change materials. The book aims to strengthen the syllabus in energy, materials and physics and is well suitable for students and professionals in the fields.