DocumentCode
2016305
Title
Power management system for microbial fuel cell powered water quality monitoring system
Author
Gao, Hongwei ; Chen, Qi ; Yang, Qing
Author_Institution
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
fYear
2015
fDate
12-15 July 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
The paper presents the design and test results of a power management system for a microbial fuel cell (MFC) powered water quality monitoring system, where sensors and communication devices are used to collect water quality data in a water body such as a river or a lake and transmit the data to a remote computer, and a MFC is used as the energy source for the sensors and communication devices. The power management system bridges the gap between the MFC and the water quality monitoring system by generating sufficient voltage and current for the sensors and communication devices using the low voltage and low current of the MFC.
Keywords
Capacitors; Charge pumps; Light emitting diodes; MOSFET; Relays; Sensors; Solids; energy harvesting; microbial fuel cell; power management; water quality monitoring;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2015 IEEE 16th Workshop on
Conference_Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/COMPEL.2015.7236522
Filename
7236522
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