WiTricity

“Wireless Electricity”

PRESENTED BY: VIPUL PAWAR

TE IT (ii)
INTERNAL GUIDE:U.R.GODASE
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 Contents
 Introduction to WiTricity
 History and Types of Energy Transfer
 Principle of WiTricity
 Working Of WiTricity
 Features Of Technology
 Applications
 Advantages and Limitations
 Future of the Technology
 Conclusion and References

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What’s WiTricity ?

 Defn. of WiTricity-wireless electricity

 Need of WiTricity-increasing demand of appl.

 Concerns of recent Tech.-resistance

 Goal of Technology-removal of grid

 Movers and Inventors of Tech.

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History of WET
 Nikola Tesla(1899), Electromagnetic Induction
e.g. power transformers, motors etc.

 Later, EM radiation in the form of radio waves

e.g. antenna pole and lamp

 direct EM radiation like LASER’S but in vain.

 In 2007,MIT team introduced WREL tech.

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Types of Energy Transfer

3 major types of Wireless Energy Transfer

- Short range: Inductive Coupling
– Medium range: Resonant Induction
– Long range: Electromagnetic Wave Power
Transfer

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Inductive Coupling
  What’s Inductive Coupling?

 Range of Inductive Coupling

 Use of the Inductive Coupling

 Effect of I. Coupling

 Applications

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 Resonant Induction
 What Is Resonance and Resonant Induction?

 Types of Resonant Induction

-acoustic, mechanical, electromagnetic etc.

 Examples
-1.Swing 2.Shattering of Glasses

 MIT Team conc. On Electromagnetic Coupled Resonators.

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Principles and working
Works on the principle of ‘Coupled Resonance’
 Two copper coils radius 25 cm each

sender coil to power source, receiver coil to the

light bulb.
 When turned on ,the sender coil emits electricity in

the form of a magnetic field, oscillating at a

specific frequency 9.9MHz
 The receiver coil picks up the transmission

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Actual Mechanism

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Experimental realization
 Two Self resonating coils
 source coil coupled
inductively to an
oscillating circuit, sec. coil
inductively to a resistive
load.
 interplay between
distributed inductance
gives rise to resonance

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Efficiency Vs Distance Graph

 Efficiency decayed with

distance
 40% efficiency at 225cm
 Wall to load ratio 15%
 Copper oxide layer
decreased power transfer
efficiency
 It leaves room for
improvement

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Dream Product

Wireless technology will expand current

electronics market

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Features of the Technology
 No effect of hindrance

 100% assurance of charging

 Non radiative-Doesn’t affect on environment

 Scalable design-can be designed to handle broad range

 Minimum wastage of power

 Million times efficient than Tesla’s one

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Advantages
 simplicity

 safe, fairly efficient, good range

 free from wire grid

 weak interaction with human

 omni-directional power

 range from mill watts to kilowatts

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 flexible geometry-easily embedded
 more environment friendly
 more reliable

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Applications Consumer electronics

 Auto wireless charging of

mobile, laptops, i-pod

 Direct wireless powering of

TV’s, digi.frames, home-
theaters etc.

 Wireless powering of
desktop PC’s ,printers,
speakers etc.

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 Industrial and Transport

  Wireless
 Transportation communication
across moving parts or
joints
 In drilling, mining work

Replace costly wiring

and slip rings

Auto wireless charging of

mobile robots

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Other…
 Wireless charging for
ventricular devices,
pacemaker etc.

 In military, sensors,
aircraft

 Auto charging of smart

cards

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Future of Technology
 Aim to rise Efficiency
 More work in moving instruments
 e.g. moving robots.
 Four to five years to go for commercial use.
 Signed nondisclosure agreements to develop
products with more than 100 companies
manufacturers of:
Cell phones, MP3 players, automotive parts,
temperature sensors, hearing aids and medical
implants
 Wild Charge: a Colorado-based company
Released a special back plate for the Motorola RAZR

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Conclusion
 This technology is a big impediment to development in the retail
sector right now.
 The wireless transfer of electricity has been a sci-fi dream up to
this point ,and truly, if electricity could simply be in the air, in the
same way radio waves and wi-fi signals are, it would change the
world.
 Let's hope the researchers will be able to come up with the
commercial system soon. Till then, we wait in anticipation!

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 References
1. An article published in the Science Magazine as “Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly
Coupled Magnetic Resonances” by Andre kurs, Science 317, 83(2007); Dol:10.1126/
science.1143254.
2. H. Haus , “Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics”, Prentice hall Publishers, Englewood
3. http://electron9.phys.utk.edu/optics507/modules/m6/coupled_resonators.htm
4. “Efficient Non-Radiative Midrange Energy Transfer” by Aristeidies karalis, Marlin
Soljacic's.
5. Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, Ben Johnston, Ed., Austin, Hart Brothers, p. 91,1982.
6. Thomas F. Valone, “ Tesla’ s Wireless Energy... For the 21st Century!!! One Step
Beyond Direct TV!!!” Extra Ordinary Technology, 1, no. 4, Oct / Nov / Dec 2003.
7. James O. McSpadden, “ Wireless Power Transmission Demonstration”, Texas A&M
University, June, 1997.
8. Charych Arthur (Setauket, NY), “ System and method for wireless electrical power
transmission”, Patent No. 6,798,716, September 28, 2004.
9. Joe T. Howell, et. al , “Advanced receiver / converter experiments for laser wireless
power transmission”5th. Wireless transmission conference, pp 1-8, Garanda,
Spain,2004.

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