Maheswaran, B., & Patel, S., & Flanagan, J., & Tamer, C., & Nielsen, N., & Prescott, M., & Kumarakuru, H. (2021, July), Harvesting Electricity from Sound Waves: An Application of Faraday’s Law  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37240

\bibitem{asee_peer_37240}
  Maheswaran, B., \& Patel, S., \& Flanagan, J., \& Tamer, C., \& Nielsen, N., \& Prescott, M., \& Kumarakuru, H. (2021, July), \emph{Harvesting Electricity from Sound Waves: An Application of Faraday’s Law}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--37240

Bala Maheswaran, Smeet Patel, James Flanagan, Carly Tamer, Nadav Nielsen, Matt Prescott, and Haridas Kumarakuru.  "Harvesting Electricity from Sound Waves: An Application of Faraday’s Law".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://strategy.asee.org/37240 Internet.  25 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_37240}
  Bala Maheswaran, Smeet Patel, James Flanagan, Carly Tamer, Nadav Nielsen, Matt Prescott, and Haridas Kumarakuru.
  "Harvesting Electricity from Sound Waves: An Application of Faraday’s Law".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://strategy.asee.org/37240 Internet.  25 Jun, 2024

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author = "Bala Maheswaran, Smeet Patel, James Flanagan, Carly Tamer, Nadav Nielsen, Matt Prescott, and Haridas Kumarakuru"
title = "Harvesting Electricity from Sound Waves: An Application of Faraday’s Law"
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year = "2021"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Sound is a fascinating tool in human life. We encounter sound pollution every day from hearing, talking, transportation, and much more. This is one source of energy that is often overlooked as a frontier to use to our advantage. An abundance of sound pollution is constantly being wasted as it dissipates back into the environment. This study introduces the concept of converting the energy stored in sound waves into electricity through the application of Faraday’s Law. This is accomplished using a diaphragm, magnetic field, and wiring. The diaphragm of the device captures the kinetic energy of the sound and transfers it to the wiring, causing a minor movement of the wire within the magnetic field. This movement leads to variable magnetic flux. When the magnetic flux through a conductor changes, an electromotive force is produced. With electrons now engaged, a current is therefore induced, and, in turn, an electrical charge. We successfully produced voltage from soundwaves of varying frequencies using this device. This shows that accessing sound energy with this device is not only possible but with a loud enough source and an optimized design, it can produce usable quantities of electricity. The energy produced in this application can be used in education, and even in the industry if scaled up. The voltage was measured in the presence of 3 different frequencies and 3 trials were performed for each of those frequencies. The ANOVA test conducted in this paper shows that the data is statistically significant. The most important result of the experiments is that a statistically significant AC signal, produced only when exposed to sound, thereby proves that sound is causing the electrical signal. It is extremely likely that, when scaled up and in the right conditions, our device could supply usable electricity by recovering energy from the sound.
AU  - Bala Maheswaran
AU  - Smeet Patel
AU  - James Flanagan
AU  - Carly Tamer
AU  - Nadav Nielsen
AU  - Matt Prescott
AU  - Haridas Kumarakuru
CY  - Virtual Conference
DA  - 2021/07/26
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Harvesting Electricity from Sound Waves: An Application of Faraday’s Law
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/37240
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--37240
ER  -