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Power Generation with Raindrops

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India being an emergent nation has increased stipulations for power. Significantly more than half of India’s electricity generation is based on coal, wind, etc. However, these energy-generating resources have significant drawbacks that avert them from being employed in all situations. Furthermore, until 2040, annual energy consumption is expected to rise by more than 1%. Understanding this scenario and the need of the nation, researchers experimented with the efficacious use of raindrops to supplement existing power-producing methods. Many places like Sikkim and Meghalaya get year-round high rainfall. Many approaches have been developed to utilize raindrops as a source of energy. The most commanding feature of this method is that for raindrop energy money will be spent only at the time of installation. Raindrops are an indispensable source of energy, but the form in which they occur is a major obstacle in their use for power generation. As a result, developing a system that can productively convert the energy associated with raindrops to electrical energy while maximizing conversion efficiency is tough. ‘Droplet-Based Electricity Generation (DEG), Hybrid solar panels, Superhydrophobic Magnetoelectric Generator (SMEG), and Piezoelectric Sensor Working’ are some of the approaches described in this study for the same. The method that we found most effective and want to work on further with improved efficiency is DEG (Droplet-Based Electricity Generation).

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    Alok Kumar, Amrit Kushwaha, Kritika Srivastava, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Mayank Upadhyay & Sarjeet Chaudhary

  2. ME Department KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, India

    Ankur Sachdeva

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    Ramesh Singh

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Kumar, A. et al. (2023). Power Generation with Raindrops. In: Li, X., Rashidi, M.M., Lather, R.S., Raman, R. (eds) Emerging Trends in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6945-4_28

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