Vibration induced refrigeration using ferroelectric materialsopen access
- Authors
- Kumar, Anuruddh; Chauhan Aditya; Patel, Satyanarayan; Novak, Nikola; Kumar, Rajeev; Vaish, Rahul
- Issue Date
- Mar-2019
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Citation
- SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v.9, no.1, pp.1 - 9
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 9
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/189842
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-019-40159-8
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Abstract
- This article aims to propose a cantilever based cooling device employing non-axis symmetric placement of bulk ferroelectric patches. Ambient mechanical vibrations produce large stresses in cantilevers resulting in elastocaloric effect associated with ferroelectrics. Further, design allows cascading of several cantilevers to achieve large cooling response. A finite element analysis of the system was performed using material properties of bulk 0.50Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O-3-0.50(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3. An individual element could produce a peak elastocaloric effect of 0.02 K (324 K); whereas the proposed system could achieve a temperature drop of 0.2 K within 50 seconds (10 elements, 1.5 Hz). Furthermore, net cooling can be further improved about similar to 2 K (using 10 cantilevers) for a starting temperature of 358 K. This study shows that elastocaloric effect in ferroelectric materials is capable of converting waste mechanical vibration into refrigeration effect which is not reported so far.
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