Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1049/ell2.13241

Publication Title

Electronics Letters

Volume

60

Issue

12

Pages

e13241 (1-4)

Abstract

A wearable energy harvester (EH) incorporating a face mask with a thermoelectric generator is demonstrated. The function of this device is to generate electrical power from the heat produced by the human body, particularly breath, with the specific aim of powering wearable sensor applications. A prototype was built using a commercially available N95 face mask, a thermoelectric generator, and a heatsink. The performance of this EH device was assessed using experimental and numerical methodologies. The experimentally tested power output of the prototype was found to be ≈100 µW, with a corresponding power density of ≈30 µW/cm3, for a temperature difference of 7°C.

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© 2024 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Data Availability

Article states: "The data that support the findings of this study are available from the first author upon reasonable request."

ORCID

0009-0000-0836-8481 (Yalim)

Original Publication Citation

Erturun, U., Yalim, C., & West, J. E. (2024). Energy harvesting face mask using a thermoelectric generator for powering wearable health monitoring sensors. Electronics Letters, 60(12), 1-4, Article e13241. https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.13241

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