CWIEME Challenge Final

Sheng Yuan from Liverpool University in the UK impressed the judges, which included the AEMT Secretary Tim Marks, with his live presentation to the Challenge judging panel at CWIEME Berlin.

The Magnetic Energy Harvester project focusing on the potential to harvest magnetic field energy to power condition monitoring devices, such as partial discharge sensors and infrared detectors at electrical substations, and real-time weather stations beneath overhead power lines.

Sheng discovered that a novel bowtie-shaped core had a much higher magnetic moment, and as much as five times greater power output than a conventional solenoid, and a switch in the matching circuit could increase transmission efficiency by 30%.

The other projects were presented by Lukas Kistner and Marcel Nöller for the design and construction of a high power low weight electric motor for an electric racing car for the KIT15e Motor Project.

Marc England designed an Integrated Drive-Motor-System making a very compact design of motor with onboard inverter and cooling for a project initiated by Lenz.

Lukasz Walus presentation was the implementation of isolated DC/DC converter powered by DC circuit of voltage inverter.

The next call for entries launches in Autumn 2015, so if you know of anyone who may have a winning project for next year’s CWIEME Email chloe.theobald@i2ieventsgroup.com to register their project.