Energy Harvesting 2017

Date: Wednesday 05th April 2017
Location: Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester, M60 2LA, United Kingdom

The Energy Harvesting Network held its annual one-day dissemination event on 5th April 2017 at the Manchester Town Hall, Manchester. The Network is self-funded and run by a team of academics and industrialists, and is for the benefit of academia, industry and end-users of energy harvesting technology. The event was supported by the KTN and sponsored by 8Power Ltd and Perpetuum Ltd.



The event provided a platform for disseminating energy-harvesting advances and applications in the UK and contained presentations from well-respected speakers in academia and industry. The presentations and PhD student posters can be downloaded by following the links below:

9:30	Arrival, Registration, Networking and Refreshments
10:00	Welcome and Introduction Dibin Zhu, University of Exeter; Yu Jia, University of Chester
10.10	Keynote: Energy harvesting for wearable applications Prof Steve Beeby, University of Southampton
10.40	Design and optimisation of miniature vibration energy harvesters to supply low-power sensing systems Dr Emmanuelle Arroyo, University of Cambridge
11.00	Vibration energy harvesting, from lab to field Paul Egan, 8power Ltd
11.20	Coffee Break, Exhibition, Networking and Poster Session
11:45	Thermoelectrics: Energy harvesting and Scavenging Heat from the Earth Dr Jonathan Siviter, University of Glasgow
12:05	Sublimation engines: some proof-of-concept results Dr Rodrigo Ledesma Aguilar, Northumbria University
12:25	'Elevator Pitches' from Exhibiting Companies
12:35	Buffet Lunch, Exhibition, Networking and Poster Session Posters from: Connection configurations to increase operational range and output power of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters Sijun Du, University of Cambridge Auxetic strain amplification for enhanced energy harvesting power William J. G. Ferguson, University of Exeter Harvesting nonlinear vibration within high G rotational systems James Horne, University of Chester Energy harvesting from raindrop impacts using piezoelectric devices Adnan Ilyas, Heriot-Watt University Optimisation of Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvesters John McCrory, Cardiff University A hip implant energy harvester Kantida Pancharoen, University of Southampton Improved energy outputs from piezoelectric bimorph beam by snap-through-action for energy harvester applications David Pritchard, University of Exeter Ferroelectret materials in energy harvesting for human body application Junjie Shi, University of Southampton Feasibility of piezoelectric vibration energy harvester powered wireless tracking of falcons - Best Poster Winner Maisie Snowdon, University of Chester
13:45	Keynote: Energy Harvesting demands for emerging applications Sandra Fernandez and David Earle, McLaren Applied Technologies
14:10	Inductive Power Transfer in the MHz ISM bands Prof Paul Mitcheson, Imperial College London
14:30	Zero-Power Monitoring and Wake-Up for Energy Harvesting, Wireless Sensors, and Remote-Controlled Devices Dr Plamen Proynov, University of Bristol
14:50	Knowledge Transfer Network: connecting people to accelerate innovation Nigel Rix, KTN
15:00	Best Poster Award, Coffee Break, Exhibition and Networking
15.30	Advances in vibrational energy harvesting for applications in IoT Prof. Saibal Roy, Tyndall National Institute
15:50	Strain energy harvesting powered wireless sensor nodes Dr Zheng Jun Chew, University of Exeter
16:10	EH powered rail track monitoring goes global Roy Freeland, Perpetuum Ltd
16:30	End of Event and Departure

A "Best Poster" prize of a £100 Amazon voucher was awarded to Maisie Snowdon (University of Chester) for their poster titled Feasibility of piezoelectric vibration energy harvester powered wireless tracking of falcons.



Below are a selection of photos from the event: