Special Session #2: Energy Harvesting for Electric Vehicular Transport Applications

Co-organizer: Carmine Stefano Clemente, University of Sannio, Italy
Co-organizer: Vincenzo Paolo Loschiavo, University of Sannio, Italy

 

Call for Papers

Electric transportation is experiencing an exponential growth and development in the last years, because of the necessity of CO2 reduction to contrast the global climate change. Indeed, electric motors are more efficient with respect to common internal combustion engines. In particular, in electric vehicles electric energy is stored in batteries, and then one of the most important limitations for the spread of electric mobility is due to their autonomy and the charging infrastructure.

Energy Harvesting (EH) techniques consist in scavenging the environmental energy, otherwise wasted, and subsequent conversion in electricity to supply low-power electronics and devices. In electric automobiles such devices could be network sensors, lights, electric displays, and all on-board instrumentation. These are commonly supplied by the on board battery with a consequent reduction in the autonomy and lifetime.

In electric vehicles there can be several sources of unexploited energy that can be recovered with EH methods. For the sake of example, vibrations on suspensions can be actively used as input for Vibration Energy Harvesters (VEHs) based on smart materials or electro-magnetic generators. Moreover, battery packs need to be cooled and Thermo-electric Generators (TEGs) could be used to recovery thermal energy.

EH techniques are based upon smart materials, which couple mechanical, thermal, radiation variables to electrical or magnetic variables (such as magnetostrictives, piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, etc.). Indeed, the research will continue to advance as long as new multifunctional technologies are developed.

With the aim to increase the recovered energy and therefore the EH device efficiency, the modelling (analytical or numerical) and the optimization still represent an open research field. Furthermore, an important aspect is represented by Energy Management systems that often are composed by an electronic interface which should adapt and control, in an intelligent way, the energy flow between source and users device.

The Special Session will be focused on the latest advances in devices, methods, modelling, optimization and energy management interfaces used in the EH applications for green transportations.

The topics of interest include, but not restricted to:
– Energy Harvesting
– Smart Materials
– Magnetostriction
– Piezoelectricity
– Thermoelectric Generators (TEG)
– Electro-active polymers (EAP)
– Shape Memory Alloys (SMA)
– Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MSMA)
– Meta-materials
– Radio-frequency (RF) harvesting
– Solar Energy
– Photovoltaic systems (PV)
– EH modelling and optimization
– Energy Management interfaces

 

Co-organizer’s Bios

Carmine Stefano Clemente

Bio: Carmine Stefano Clemente was born in Benevento (Benevento, Italy) in December 1989. He received the Master Degree in Energy Engineering in May 2014 at the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, with 110/110 cum laude.

In 2014, he won a six month grant at the University of Sannio, Dept. of Engineering, regarding the “Converted Energy Optimization in Energy Harvesting with magnetostrictive materials for systems transportation applications”, within the project “INSIST”. In 2015, he won a six month grant at the University of Sannio, Dept. of Engineering, regarding the “Innovative technologies for structures and infrastructures monitoring”, within the project “MaSTRI”.

In 2016, he got a one year research grant at the University of Sannio, Dept. of Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. D. Davino. His research activity was focused on the “Development of Energy Harvesting techniques and devices based on multi functional materials for structural and environmental monitoring applications”, within the project “SMART CASE”. In March 2018, he received the PhD in “Information Technology for Engineering” at the University of Sannio, curriculum “Energy and Environment”. The PhD thesis, entitled: “Modeling and development of an Energy Harvesting device based on magnetostrictive materials”, was made at Lab.I.Ri.N.T.I. (Integrated laboratory for research on new magnetic devices and innovative technologies), University of Sannio, under the supervision of Prof. Daniele Davino and Prof. Ciro Visone. During the PhD course, he provided teaching activities to the students of “Principle of Electric Engineering elements” class.

In September 2018, he got a two years research grant at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy in collaboration with GE Avio Aero. His research activity was aimed on the “Analysis and Technological validation of a magnetostrictive torque sensor”.

In September 2020, he got a two years research grant at the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy. His research activity was aimed on the “Design and development of a low energy consumption optical fiber handling system”. He is reviewer for different journals (among them IEEE Trans on Magnetics, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Physica–B: Condensed Mater, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Sensors, Actuators).
He is Guest Editors of the Special Issue “New Design and Applications for Magnetoelastic Actuators” on Actuators and “Smart Materials and Devices for Energy Harvesting, Volume II” on Materials. He has been chairman of the Special Session: “Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting Applications: Materials, Devices and Electronic Interfaces”, during the “21th IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC) e 5th IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe”, Bari, Italy.

About his main scientific skills and interests: the modelling and experimental characterization of smart materials, such as piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials, composite materials, magnetic shape memory alloys (MSMA). Furthermore, another his research activity is about the development of Energy Harvesting devices (force driven, can�lever beam, etc), the modelling and characterization of new Energy Harvesting applications and techniques, devoted to the power supply of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Finally, he is involved in Numerical and Finite Element modelling of magnetic sensor (force, torque, load, strain sensors), energy harvester, and magnetostrictive devices.

 

Vincenzo Paolo Loschiavo

Bio: Vincenzo Paolo Loschiavo was born in 1985, received the master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2013 from the University Federico II of Napoli, Italy with a 110/110 cum laude degree. The thesis was a work on “Analysis of the effects of the scrape-off layer currents in JET tokamak plasmas”. In May 2017 he received the doctoral degree in Information Technology and Electric Engineering, from the University of Napoli Federico II, with a thesis on the “Modelling of power exhaust in fusion plasmas” (http://www.fedoa.unina.it/11670/). From May 2013 to July 2013, he was Visiting Engineer at the CCFE (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, UK). In 2014 and 2015 he was Visiting Engineer at EFDA-CSU (European Fusion Development Agreement-Close Support Unit, Garching, Germany).

From May 2015 to October 2015, he was Visiting Engineer at the ENEA (Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, Brasimone, Italy). Again, from April 2016 to July 2016, he was Visiting Engineer at EFDA-CSU. Also, in November 2015 and September 2018, he visited the Swiss Plasma Center where he worked as Visiting Engineer on Plasma Equilibrium codes and control during the MST1 experimental campaign on the TCV tokamak facility.

From 2013 to 2017 he has been Scientific Consultant at CREATE (Consorzio di Ricerca per l’Energia e le Applicazioni Tecnologiche dell’Elettromagnetismo, Napoli) working on several topics about plasma physics and in particular to development of plasma equilibria, vertical stability analysis, thermal and mechanical wall load analysis.

In 2017 he has been awarded with a EUROfusion Engineering Grant. Therefore, from July 2017 to December 2019 he worked as a fellow of the EUROfusion Engineering Grant Programme on the “Development of an integrated electromagnetic modelling of DEMO plasma equilibria and analysis of plasma Vertical Stability and heat loads”.

From 2019 to 2022 he has been Research Assistant (RTD-A) at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Università degli Studi del Sannio, winner of a national competition on a project about Cultural Heritage Technologies (Kinetic Energy Harvesting by Magnetostrictive Materials) under the supervision of Prof. D. Davino (SSD ING-IND/31). Since then, he works on modeling and development of kinetic energy harvesting devices based on magnetostrictive materials.

Since 2022 he is Research Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Università degli Studi del Sannio.In Unisannio he is also a regular lecturer of “Elettrotecnica” course for three years degree in Energy Engineering.

In 2021 and 2022 he has been, together with Prof. D. Davino, scientific responsible in a collaboration agreement, involving activities on controlled thermonuclear fusion, between CREATE Consortium and Università degli Studi del Sannio..

Over the years, he has been supervisor of bachelor’s degree theses and co-supervisor of several bachelor’s and master’s degree these.

As a summary, his scientific interests include plasma engineering, computational electromagnetics, optimization and thermo-mechanical analyses in tokamaks, energy harvesting, magnet design.

He is co-author of more than 50 scientific publications on international journals and conference proceedings and he is referee for several journals (among them Fusion Engineering and Design, Nuclear Fusion and MDPI’s journals). He is also member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (IJAEM, ISSN print 1383-5416, ISSN online 1875-8800) and he served as guest editor for a Special Issue “Latest Theoretical, Technological, and Experimental Advances in Fusion Devices” for the Journal Energies/MDPI (ISSN 1996-1073). He served as Organizer and Chair of a Special Session for the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (7-10 September 2021, Bari, Italy).

For additional information, please see: VPPC2023-Flyer-SS_Energy_Harvesting_CSC_VPL SS2

Submission Deadline: 17 April 2023
Acceptance notification: 5 July 2023
Final paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 5 August 2023

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