A novel water-drop power generation system based on ICPF actuator

A novel water-drop power generation system is proposed based on ionic conducting polymer film (ICPF) material in this paper. ICPF is a new intelligent material, which has piezoelectric power generation capacity. As a piezoelectric material, ICPF can generate charge with using the feature. This power generation device mainly includes water-drop generating device, rectifier unit and storage unit. In order to study the electricity generation principle of ICPF, it is necessary to obtain the relationship between the charge and deflection of ICPF. The relationship between the applied force and the corresponding charge is studied by mathematical analysis and ANSYS software. In addition, the theoretical result is almost similar with the experimental results in trend. Accordingly, the results indicate that ICPF has piezoelectric properties and it is feasible to develop this power generation system. This water-drop power generation for generating maximum voltage can reach about 0.2v. The development of this technology has a prospect approach for further research in the new energy field.