This paper presents the design of a power harvester for passive RFID Tags. An impedance matching circuit chooses a high-pass L network inserted between the antenna and rectifier circuit to maximize the power transferred to Tags using an impedance transformation technique. A simple circuit including only a shunt inductance was selected as a matching. The rectifier utilizes a Self-Vth-Cancellation (SVC) circuit is an archived self-threshold voltage cancellation and self-power regulation function with a simple circuit design. An antenna is modeled as an RF source with a series impedance Zs of 50Ω while the rectifier is modeled as a load impedance ZL which is estimated from the process and design parameters of the NMOS and PMOS transistors used in the SVC rectifier. As the combined circuit was simulated using input in the UHF band of 953 MHz and the devices’ model of the 0.35μm CMOS technology. The simulation results were compared with the single-stage rectifier of the SVC technique in the issue of the Power Conversion Efficiency (PCE). The achieved DC output of the rectifier yields the power conversion efficiency of 43.7% at input RF power -10.22dBm while a DC output voltage of around 643.8mV and a current load of 64.4μA.

This research aims to develop the waste heat energy conversion device to generate electricity through a thermoelectric generator (TEG) which is called “CHEU. This device is applied to the LPG cookstove that serves as a waste heat source. The thermoelectric generator with 4 modules in series connection is used to convert heat energy to electricity. The present research shows a modification of the CHEU based on two concepts as follows: (1) re-design the structure for heat transfer improvement and (2) select the high capability of TEG to support a high temperature from a heat source as a result of (1). In this study the modified CHEU is called “MCHEU”. A heat-load condition is set as the gas pressure of LPG which varies in a range of 0.1 - 0.6 kg/cm2 and the throttle valve is fixed approximately at 40% of a fully opened throttle while the air entrainment is fully opened throttle. Also the water-cooling system is used for heat dissipation. Base on the performance evaluation of MCHEU the interesting results are drawn as follows: 1) the maximum temperature difference is on an average value of 278.5oC at a maximum heat load condition while a maximum voltage current and power are on an average value of 18.83 V 5.67 A and 107 W respectively. 2) The temperature difference of MCHEU is higher than that of CHEU with an average value of 50%. 3) The output power obtained by MCHEU is higher than that of CHEU with an average value of 52% and takes less time about 40% for fully charging a battery (12V 7.5Ah). Nevertheless MCHEU usage does not affect the thermal efficiency of a cookstove. 4) The efficiency of an energy conversion obtained by MCHEU is 20% which is higher than that of CHEU about 2%.