The University of Silesia in Katowice became a member of the consortium realizing the project: “Electro-Intrusion. Simultaneous transformation of ambient heat and undesired vibrations into electricity via nanotriboelectrification during non-wetting liquid intrusion-extrusion into-from nanopores”.
The project aims to develop more efficient methods of converting waste heat and unwanted mechanical vibrations into electricity. Its effect is to be the construction of a prototype of a device used to recover thermal energy and mechanical waste energy generated as a result of mechanical vibrations and thermal processes.
The consortium includes: Universita degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy), University of Birmingham (Great Britain), National Technical University of Ukraine and “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (Ukraine), Tenneco (Belgium) and the Center of Cooperative Research on Alternative Energie from Basque Research and Technology Alliance (Spain).
