Fig 1.
Experiment setup for harvesting energy from Aloe Vera with different electrode combinations.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Fig 2.
Experiment setup for variation of distance between electrodes.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Fig 3.
Experiment setup for embedding electrodes in leaf and stem of Aloe Vera.
Setup for embedding electrodes in leaf (A), setup for embedding electrodes in stem (B) and simple schematic for both setups (C).
Fig 4.
Experiment setup for a varying number of electrodes in a leaf.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Fig 5.
Experiment setup for series connection between leaves.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Fig 6.
Experiment setup for parallel connection between leaves.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Fig 7.
Experiment setup for series connection among leaves which passing through the stem of the Aloe Vera.
Fig 8.
The equivalent circuit for series connection among leaves which passing through the stem of the Aloe Vera.
Fig 9.
Experiment setup for series connection among leaves in which the connection by-passes the stem of the Aloe Vera.
Fig 10.
The equivalent circuit for series connection between leaves which by-pass the stem of the Aloe Vera.
Fig 11.
The equivalent circuit for series connection between cut off leaves.
Fig 12.
The equivalent circuit for series connection between cut off leaves.
Fig 13.
Experiment setup for charging a capacitor using the PBC system.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Table 1.
Types of capacitors selected.
Fig 14.
Experiment setup for charging a capacitor with series a connection of leaves, which passes through the stem of Aloe Vera.
Fig 15.
Experiment setup for charging a capacitor with cut off leaves disconnected from the Aloe Vera.
Example of setup arrangement (A) and simple schematic of the setup (B).
Table 2.
Voltage and current from different types of electrode pairs.
Table 3.
Comparison of voltage and current harvested between different types of living plants with Aloe Vera.
Table 4.
Voltage and current measured by varying the distance between an electrodes pair.
Fig 16.
Comparison of voltage harvested from Aloe Vera leave and stem.
Table 5.
The magnitude of voltage and current harvested.
Table 6.
Comparison of voltage and current from series and parallel connection between Aloe Vera leaves.
Fig 17.
Comparison of electrical output for Exp1-3.
Comparison in terms of output voltage (A) and output current (B).
Fig 18.
Tabulation of voltage measured from a range of capacitors charge by the PBC at a fix duration.
Fig 19.
Voltage value of a capacitor, which is charged by a series connection between two leaves which passing through the stem of Aloe Vera over a period of 3 days.
Fig 20.
Voltage value of a capacitor, which is charged by a series connection of cut off leaves disconnected from the plant over a period of 3 days.