Design World – August 2019

10 August 2019 http://www.designworldonline.com DESIGN WORLD

Green Engineering

Paul J. Heney • VP, Editorial Director

Precision engineering and

sustainable energy

The European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen) announced a workshop focused

on the role of precision engineering in stimulating innovation in solar, wind, and oceanic renewable energy and energy

storage technologies. The workshop will be held October 9-10, 2019 at the University of Strathclyde in the U.K.

Sustainable energy strategies center around cleaner methods

of producing energy through the use of solar, wind, and oceanic

energy technologies, and energy storage considerations — the

cost of which have decreased in recent years due to government

support policies and investor confidence as the sustainable energy

market expands exponentially.

The role of precision engineering in the sustainable energy

sector will stimulate the advancement of various technologies

needed to gain industrial competitiveness, and this euspen

workshop will bring together professionals from academia, industry,

and government to share experiences concerning the use of

precision engineering principles to help develop new ideas and

manufacturing systems to reduce production and ownership costs

in sustainable energy solutions.

All new and innovative technologies in these sectors will

require the design and manufacture of extremely accurate, robust,

and decisive mechanical components. The workshop will look

at automated precision production of components and systems

ranging from manufacture of solar cells and panels to their

installation and maintenance; to ever larger wind turbines on and

offshore including in-situ manufacturing of ever larger

elements; to energy storage systems from batteries to

hydro power systems.

For sustainable wind technology, the specific focus will

be on the design and manufacture of actuators, gearing

and controls, blades and materials, and towers. The hot

topics that will be covered when looking at solar energy

will be concentrating solar power (CSP) and photovoltaics,

and for oceanic energy wave, tidal, off-shore wind, and

automated aquaculture and mineral harvesting will be

considered.

Obviously of critical importance when looking at any

energy solution is the topic of storage, and so hydro,

flywheel, battery, and thermal (including geothermal)

storage technologies will also be central to the Workshop.

For more information, visit http://www.euspen.eu, or contact

Dishi Phillips, Business Development Manager at euspen at

+44 (0)1234 754023 or [email protected]. DW

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