Week 6 - Energy Scavenging Research
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The document discusses research methods for developing energy scavenging devices (ESDs) that could be applied in various infrastructure settings such as roads, playgrounds, buildings, and sports facilities. It outlines potential ESD products like speed bumps and traffic signs that scavenge energy from passing cars. For playgrounds, ESDs could be integrated into equipment like slides and swings to capture energy from children's movements. The document also presents the research methods used in ESD projects, including literature reviews, observations, prototype designs, surveys, and interviews. It provides examples of specific ESD research on road pavements and in playgrounds.
Week 6 - Energy Scavenging Research
- 1. Energy Scavenging Research Method Group 9 MSc in Engineering Management
- 2. Research and development on various ESD mainly on Infrastructure, Playground, Building Infrastructure and Sport Energy Scavenging Device (ESD) R&D Infrastructure Playground Building & Sport Road Pavement Children Playground Children Playground Building & Sport Home/Housing Energy Source from Car, Motor Energy Source from Human Product: Speed Bump, Traffic Sign, Parking Area, Car attached ESD Ladder, Mat, Walking Path SeeSaw, Slide, Swing
- 3. Road ESD Research Method • Literature Review • Observation • Prototype Design • Survey • Interview Literature Review Observation Prototype Design Survey Indepth Interview
- 4. Road & Pavement ESD application Infrastructure Potential ESD Product ES Road ES Pavement ES Traffic Light ES Traffic Sign Car + ESD Motor + ESD ES in Parking Area ES Speed Bump
- 5. Energy Scavenging from Pavement
- 6. Project at a Glance - Energy Scavenging Harness wasted energy - Gain energy from pavement as public facilities - Material : Piezoelectric - User : Human and Bicycle - Positivism Strategy
- 7. Data Collection Methods Literature Review Observation Questionnaire Interview Methods Ethics ?
- 9. Literature review – Find related technology could be applied Gather ideas from secondary data and interview. Find the general advantages and disadvantages of each idea. Do quantitative survey among local residents. Show them the features of each idea and ask which idea they prefer. Analyzing results of quantitative research and select the most profitable idea. Do more research in depth about this idea
- 10. Topic Understanding Choosing Price UsageReliability Chosen Technology (Literature Review) (Literature Review) (Literature Review) (Observation or questionnaire) (Literature Review) Ethic
- 11. Energy harvesting gym Research method Induction Add retrofitted equipment to gym facilities Technology solutions Environmental aspect Reception of potential customers Feasibility as a business plan Feasibility of this plan Figure 1 and 2 :http://www.humandynamo.net/ Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 3 and 4: http://www.google.co.uk/
- 12. ENERGY SCAVENGING -BUILDING 1. Clarify research topic • Generate research ideas • Turn them into research projects • Research proposal 2. Critically review literature • Time consuming but important 3. Choose research approach • Qualitative research/quantitative research • Induction/deduction 4. Plan data collection methods, collect and analyze data • Questionnaires • Case study 5. Write and submit report access communication
- 13. SMART plan Objective Tasks Resources/help needed Potential problem Evidence of success Completion /review date Complete the research part of final project successfully 1. Clarify research topic •Ideas •Questions •Objectives •Unfocussed research idea/topic A list of precise research ideas (research questions and objectives) 17/04/2015 2. Literature review •Library access •Computer •Internet access •Unable to get access •Computer broken A list of answers with supporting literature review 29/05/2015 3. Reflection (research objectives) •Literature review feedback •Think in-box A list of new ideas Once per question has been researched 4. Plan research approaches •Research approaches •Misunderstand the nature of research approaches A clear plan of research approaches being used 31/05/2015 5. Collect data •Questionnaires •Case study •Less feedback Data needed have been collected 08/06/2015 6. Analyze data •Feedbacks •calculation •Incorrect calculation A report of analysis results 10/06/2015 7. Reflection •Research approaches •collected data •Item is missing Sources has been checked 11/06/2015 8. Write report •Literature reviews •Analysis results •Stress A written report It has been checked 21/06/2015
Editor's Notes
- #2: Presenter’s Name: ANJAR PRIANDOYO, FIKRI RAMADHAN, HUALUN LIU, YING WANG, PAN XIE, LUXING YANG Presenter’s Number: AAP519, FR627, HL1102, YW1448, PX537, LY793
- #3: Presenter’s Name: ANJAR PRIANDOYO Presenter’s Number: AAP519
- #4: Presenter’s Name: ANJAR PRIANDOYO Presenter’s Number: AAP519 The research method that used in Msc project is vary from literature review, observation, prototype design, survey and interview. The main focuses would be on the observation where the behaviour of car when facing speed bump is analyze. Detail of research method explained as below: Survey Would be conducted to user of the speed bump 2. Interview Would be conducted with expert in the speed bump related technology
- #5: Presenter’s Name: ANJAR PRIANDOYO Presenter’s Number: AAP519
- #6: Presenter’s Name: FIKRI RAMADHAN Presenter’s Number: FR627 Energy Scavenging from Pavement
- #7: Presenter’s Name: FIKRI RAMADHAN Presenter’s Number: FR627 This Project uses basic principle of energy scavenging which to gain energy from wasted energy. I will focus on researching feasibility to obtain energy from pavement as public facilities but more to management aspect to develop this technology. So far, the most likely material to be used in the technology is piezoelectric material. It is the material that can produce electricity if it gets pressure. - There are 2 main user of this technology which are human and bicycle. In this project, I will use positivism/quantitative strategy. The approach of this strategy will be used to explain some factors related to this technology 1. How much energy that we can get and how much the effiency ? 2. How much cost to build and maintain this technology ? 3. Advantages, disadvantages, limitation ? 4. Safety ?
- #8: Presenter’s Name: FIKRI RAMADHAN Presenter’s Number: FR627 There are 4 possibility option to collect data for this project : Literature Review. This is required for all research. The data from literature review can be obtain from Germany Becks project documents, paper, journal, article and all other possible material Observation.This method will be conducted at site that already have energy scavenging pavement technology. Interview. The resource is expert for this technology and can be also engineer whose work related to pavement Questionnaire. This method use to see people’s reaction or behaviour to the application of the technology Ethics must be considered to perform all methods above. For example when conducting questionnaire, I have to ensure confidentiality of the data to make the participant feel safety and comfort. Another example when performing interview with engineer/manager in a company, I must have good approach to gain access and ask permission if I need to use/publish some data from the company.
- #9: Presenter’s Name: HUALUN LIU, YING WANG Presenter’s Number: HL1102, YW1448 Then Ying and I would show you which research methodology we will apply and why we will apply it in our distribution to our final project. Our job is to concentrate on energy scavenging in playground. For example, when children play seesaw, electricity can be generated through their movement, and this electricity could power streetlights. As these pictures show, our main objective is to find the most popular equipment for users among the ideas we could come up with and to do more research about it in depth. The main research methodology we will apply to generate ideas and do deep research could be literature review, and quantitative research could also help us a lot with selecting the most suitable idea.
- #10: Presenter’s Name: HUALUN LIU Presenter’s Number: HL1102 Firstly, I will review related journals to find which type of technology could be applied for energy scavenging more efficiently in playground. The most likely choices could be piezoelectricity and electromagnetism at present. Secondly, I will search patent and review specific journals about the equipment in the certain field of technology and find which of them could be applied in playground. The technique required and approximate price of related component will also be searched in this step. Qualitative research by doing interview with experts in campus could also be a method to inspire ideas from their advice. Then I will do quantitative survey among local residents. I will show them the merit and defect of each equipment and how they harvest energy from users’ behaviour and ask them which equipment they will prefer to use. As for the ethical issues, I will state clearly the information obtained from secondary data and ask for voluntary before hand out questionnaire.
- #11: Presenter’s Name: YING WANG Presenter’s Number: YW1448 Our research topic is to define which technology and equipment of energy scavenging can be more realistic to be applied in playground. The first thing I will do is to review the literature to understand the technology and to find existed equipment with the scavenging method. I will search papers, websites and also the existed patent. And after that, I will continually do research to define which technology and equipment will be chosen to be my own product. There are three main aspects, reliability, price, and usage. The main research technique I’d like to use is literature review from secondary sources. I will summaries advantages and disadvantages of each technology from literature to figure out their efficiency and reliability. When comes to the price, secondary data can be used to estimate price, and balance costs and potential profits as well. For the usage of the playground equipment, I might get quantitative data from questionnaires or observation of some playgrounds to find out which children’s favorite equipment is or which equipment children spend more time on. In the research process, many ethical issues may appear, especially in gathering the primary data from children. I will ask parents’ permission to ask or observe their children. After choosing technology, I will do a deep research from the literature on the application of this technology.
- #12: Presenter’s Name: PAN XIE Presenter’s Number: PX537 Research method As energy harvesting gym is not a new topic in technical research, there are quite a lot academic reports on it. It is good to understand this topic through others studies and give out good recommendation for this project after inducting all the academic references. Technology solution Some elliptical models already had small DC generators inside. By wiring this kind of elliptical machine to an inverter that converts the DC power generated to AC, the electricity generated during exercise can send back to electric grid. Feasibilities Environmental aspect From Life Circle Assessment respective Compare the CO2 emission of retrofit and the amount of CO2 emission reduced by retrofit. Reception of customers Whether customers in gym are willing to support the implement of this project directly determines if there is a significance on this research. Feasibility as a business plan This project will be conducted only when it can be welcomed by customers and bring profits for gym.
- #13: Presenter’s Name: LUXING YANG Presenter’s Number: LY793 The plan of doing the research is divided into five parts: Clarify research topic Literature review Choose research approaches Plan data collection methods, collect and analyze data Write and submit report Firstly, clarify research topic. 3 steps: generate research ideas; turn them into research projects; and make a research proposal(the foundation of the project). How to: set a question to answer (research questions and/or research objectives). Important: be precise. For example (myself): Research idea: energy scavenging used in buildings General focusing questions: How have energy scavenging been used in buildings? Research questions: What principles of energy scavenging are involved? How efficient are they? Secondly, literature review. Time consuming but important. Two reason: it helps to generate and refine research ideas; it is required in a research project. Thirdly, research approach. Qualitative research (e.g. what is energy scavenging) and quantitative research (e.g. what are more popular) are both used. Induction: build a theory; Deduction: test a theory. Fourthly, data collection methods, collection and analysis. Questionnaires are used to find people’s major opinions. Case study to identify, such as its limitations. The last one is writing and submitting report (enough time, check). One very important part should be considered from the beginning to the end, ethical issues(especially in three stages: design and gain access; data collection; and analysis and reporting). Others like access to participants (especially in plan data collection stage), communication should also be considered.
- #14: Presenter’s Name: LUXING YANG Presenter’s Number: LY793 A SMART plan is used to help me completing the research successfully. A very important part should be included in a SMART plan is setting a time for doing reflection. For me, gym facilities -> reflection (literature review, my understanding, interests, etc.) -> more common parts (doors, windows, etc.)