Novel autonomous Compact Inert Cell Extracted-Urine Powered Cell (ICE-UPC) energy harvesting system for driving low power applications

摘要

In this paper, an autonomous Compact Inert Cell Extracted Urine Powered Cell (ICE-UPC) for harvesting energy from exhausted cells has been proposed. In the proposed system, ICE-UPC consists of 6 Inert (dead) cells connected in series and the energy from the ICE-UPC is obtained by employing a suitable electrode combination of C-Zn. The ICE-UPC comprises of 120 grams of manganese (extracted from dead cells) packed in a cylindrical insulating PVC tube and a supply pipe of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE) material for continuous flow of urine through the system. The proposed system utilizes the energy extracted from the mixture of the human urine generally disposed off as waste and the inert cell manganese collected from the dumped dead batteries. The expedience of the proposed topology lies in its compact size and reusability of the dead batteries. In the proposed system, a mosquito repeller has been employed as a load driven by proposed ICE-UPC energy harvesting system. The output voltage and current of the ICE-UPC is 7.62 V and 10.44mA, respectively, which is sufficient enough for driving low power applications.