Insight Forums Tokyo 2015 - Energy Harvesting and Energy Storage

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums. Taking place at the UDX Conference Center on 29 and 30 September, each expert-led Insight Forum will provide you with critical business intelligence and the latest insights into the following topics:

IDTechEx Analyst, Dr Peter Harrop, will start by discussing the biggest market - High Power Energy Harvesting (HPEH) at 10W to 100 kW or more. This is newly achieved by Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) involving tethered aircraft, helium-filled turbines in the air and kite power. HPEH is seen in solar wings on planes aloft for years and photovoltaics on boats that go around the world on sunshine alone. It is achieved by the planned energy harvesting shock absorbers powering active suspension in vehicles and by planned reversing alternators with torque assist in conventional cars. There are already high-speed low-weight flywheels generating electricity from vehicles slowing down and much more. There are even solar, piezoelectric and electrodynamic road and other surfaces coming along.

 

In the second part of the Insight Forum, Dr Harrop will discuss low-power energy harvesting, such as provision of milliwatts for sensors and their telematics. Here there are many new formats for such applications including transparent, stretchable, flexible versions, weavable e-fiber and large-area printed versions. Consider the newly announced EH from stretching of special elastic tape and cloth. It involves two types of piezoelectric and one type of capacitive harvesting. The three options are being developed by different research teams seeking milliwatts rather than the current microwatts.

 

Read more about the class and see the detailed agenda at: http://www.idtechex.com/forum-asia/session4.asp

This session is concerned with energy stored electrically, with particular emphasis on:

 

 

Lead Analyst, Dr Peter Harrop will take a close look at the technologies, how they may improve over the coming ten years and what that makes possible in market growth. Will silicon anodes replace graphite and even the later titanium dioxide ones? Which cathodes are winning and what comes next? What are the costs of the battery parts and where is that going?

 

We will examine the uses and new options for serving them such as low power transparent, flexible, woven or even stretchable versions as needed for the new wearable electronics. Electric vehicles will become the largest market for lithium-ion batteries so IDTechEx looks at market penetration of over 45 categories of hybrid and pure electric vehicle by land, water and air. This is a level of detail only IDTechEx can provide. We look at how battery cost is becoming a smaller percentage of electric vehicle cost but still dominant and we forecast the improvement in parameters expected to 2025. We show which parameters are important in which applications. For example, safety and weight are crucial in the new electric aircraft.

 

The trends in the functional materials employed are examined closely to look for potential for companies making formulations and intermediate materials. For example, there is the trend from liquid electrolytes to gel then solid ones. There is the trend to replace toxic electrolytes such as acetonitrile and potentially expensive materials such as cobalt. We also look briefly at the new high-speed low-weight flywheels which have supercapacitor-like energy capture and release (power density) and may charge supercapacitors or batteries.

 

Finally, we report extensive work on structural electronics where the body of say a car will be a load-bearing supercapacitor or battery, potentially with 15% greater range and greater reliability and space as a result.

 

Read more about the class and see the detailed agenda at: http://www.idtechex.com/forum-asia/session6.asp

 

These forums will both address the business and technologies involved - providing significant market data to allow you to understand these complex landscapes. Attendees will leave with a clear, quantified view of the markets, technology assessment and development roadmaps, key player profiles and their strategy for market adoption, with lessons from success and failures.

 

As well as hosting these Insight Forums, we are also offering four exclusive sponsorship opportunities.

 

Please contact Corinne Jennings, c.jennings@IDTechEx.com, to find out how to get involved or to register for your Insight Forum place.

 

Monday 28 September - Flexible Sensors, Conductive Inks and Stretchable & Textile Electronics / Flexible Displays, Barrier Layers, Batteries and Transparent Conductive Films

Tuesday 29 September - 3D Printing: Technologies, Materials, Applications and Opportunities

Wednesday 30 September - Electric Vehicles: Land, Water and Air; Hybrid and Pure Electric