PROJECT REPORT

ON
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER
SYSTEM

BY
AMEH BLESSING ALADI

2012/1/41348EE
ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERING
GROUP7
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8th March, 2016.

TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE OF
PROJECT
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AIM AND
OBJECTIVE
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THEORY OF
OPERATION.
5-6
DESIGN PROCEDURE (METHODOLOGY) MATERIALS
USED7-8
DIAGRAMS
9-10
OBSERVATION/LIMITATIONS
..11
CONCLUSION
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REFERENCE
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TITLE OF PROJECT
CONSTRUCTION OF A WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER
SYSTEM

AIM AND OBJECTIVE

The aims and objectives of the project are;
1. To apply the principle of induction.
2. To know the working principle of a wireless power transfer
system.
3. To understand the concept of energy transfer.

THEORY OF OPERATION
Wireless power transfer system is a system efficiently used for the
transfer of electrical energy from a power source to a consuming
device without the use of man-made conductors. In wireless
power transfer, a wireless transmitter connected to a power
source conveys the field energy across an intervening space to
one or more receivers, where it is converted back to an electric
current and then utilized.
Wireless power transfer falls into two categories namely;
1. Non-Radiative
2. Radiative
In this project, the non-radiative method of power transfer was
adopted (resonant inductive coupling)
NON-RADIATIVE
The range of this category is conventionally divided into two:
1. Short range In this range, ordinary non-resonant capacitive
or inductive coupling can transfer practical amounts of
power.
2. Mid-range This is the range over which resonant capacitive
or inductive coupling can transfer practical amounts of
power. For effective mid-range power transfer, the power
transfer system must satisfy this three conditions;(a) High
efficiency
(b) Large air gap
(c) High power
RESONANT INDUCTIVE COUPLING: In this coupling, power is
transferred by magnetic field between two resonant circuits (one
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in the transmitter and the other in the receiver). Each of this

resonant circuit consists of a coil of wire connected to a capacitor.
The two are tuned to resonate at the same resonant frequency.
The resonance between the coils can greatly increase coupling
and power transfer. Resonant inductive coupling can achieve high
efficiency at ranges of 4 to 10 times the coil diameter. This is
called mid-range transfer.
An environmental and economic benefit of wireless powering
small devices such as clocks, radios, music players and remote
controls is that it could drastically reduce the 6 billion batteries
disposed of each year, a large source of toxic waste and
groundwater contamination.

DESIGN PROCEDURE
MATERIALS
A matrix board
IC SG3524
Copper wire (gauge 25)
Soldering lead
DC battery 9V
NPN transistor 2N222 and D313
Potentiometer 10K
Capacitor 10nf
Diode IN407
Resistors
METHODOLOGY
The IC socket was set on the matrix board and soldered.
The resistor was set accordingly and soldered, while the
excess leads were removed.
The potentiometer was fixed to the sixth terminal of the IC.
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 The capacitor was connected to the seventh terminal of the

IC.
The coil of 20 turns and 55 turns was wound for the
transmitter and receiver respectively.
The soldering leads were used to create continuity of the
components.
The coils of various turns were connected on the matrix
board, one on the transmitter circuit and the other on the
receiver.
The transistor of various rating was connected as shown in
the circuit diagram. The entire circuit was powered by a DC
source.

DIAGRAMS

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF A WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER

SYSTEM

THE TRANSMITTER

THE RECEIVER

OBSERVATIONS/LIMITATIONS

OBSERVATION:
It was observed that when there is no receiving device within the
limited range to couple to, no power leaves the transmitter. Also
ordinary inductive coupling can only achieve high efficiency when
the coils are very close together, usually adjacent. Therefore in
most modern inductive systems resonant inductive coupling is
used, in which the efficiency is increased by using resonant
circuits.

LIMITATIONS:
A drawback of the resonant coupling is that at close ranges when
the two resonant circuits are tightly coupled, the resonant
frequency of the system is no longer constant but splits into two
resonant peaks, so the maximum power transfer no longer occurs
at the original resonant frequency and the oscillator frequency
must be tuned to the new resonance peak.

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CONCLUSION
In conclusion, it can be said that a wireless power transfer system
consists of a transmitter connected to a source of power such as a
mains power line, which convert the power to a time-varying
electromagnetic field and one or more receiver devices which
receive the power and converts it back to DC or AC electric
current utilized by an electrical load.

REFERENCE
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. Tomar, Anuradha, Gupta, Sunil (2012). Wireless

Power
Transmission: Application and Components. International Journal
of Engineering Research and Technology (ESRSA Publications Pvt.
Ltd.) 1(5): 1-8.
. Agbinya, Johnson I., Ed. (2012). Wireless Power Transfer. River
Publishers. Comprehensive, theoretical engineering text.

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