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1/06/2011 04:59:00 AM Publicado por Alquimia
Innowattech the Israeli company that made news last year when it unveiled a method for harvesting electricity from roads is at it again. This time, the company co-founded by Technion Professor Haim Abramovich is testing its piezoelectric technology on railroad tracks.
In conjunction with Israel’s National Railway Company, the company replaced 32 existing railroad pads with Innowattech’s electricity-generating pads to measure how well they produce electricity. The technology is based upon the piezoelectric effect, the production of electricity that occurs when certain materials - including crystals and some ceramics - are deformed.
“Our pads contain piezoelectric disks, which can transform mechanical stresses into electrical output (voltage),” says Abramovich. “As a result, not only can we harvest energy, we can also gather information that includes train speed, the number of wheels on the train, weight of each wheel, wheel diameter, and wheel perimeter position.
According to Abramovich, preliminary results suggest that areas of railway track that get between 10 and 20 ten-car trains an hour can produce 120 KWh of renewable energy per hour, which could be used to help power trains and/or signals, or be routed to the power grid for use elsewhere.
Innowattech is based in Ra'anana, Israel, with research facilities at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The privately held company specializes in the development of custom piezoelectric generators for specific purposes.
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Aron Heller | 01/ 4/11 02:20 PM
JERUSALEM — After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on the next big thing – preparing the world for life without coal and oil.
Israel is driving to become a world leader in alternative energy, with the government throwing its support behind cutting-edge technologies. The number of private entrepreneurs entering the so-called "clean-tech" sector has swelled dramatically.
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By Brian Blum
Innowattech's new asphalt-embedded technology from Israel doesn't just generate green electricity from cars and vehicles, it also catches overweight trucks.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/Innowattech#p/a/u/0/KW-GxSFSy3w
Green energy is big business these days and Israel is frequently at the forefront of innovation, whether through solar energy extraction or the development of large wind farms. But both these methods are tethered to the weather - no sun or wind, no power.
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Poted by Ovidiu Sandru on December 8, 2010
After modifying Israeli highways to produce energy from piezoelectric pads installed beneath the asphalt, Innowattech, an Israel-based company, now applied their technology on railroads.
Simply, what they did was replacing 32 existing railway pads with their own piezoelectric IPEG PADs. Having the same shape as the original railway pad, the IPEG can easily be deployed onto existing railway infrastructure.
Unlike their hundred-year-old relatives, the new pads are embedded with piezoelectric elements.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
By: Kevin Hattori
Innowattech the Israeli company that made news last year when it unveiled a method for harvesting electricity from roads is at it again. This time, the company co-founded by Technion Professor Haim Abramovich is testing its piezoelectric technology on railroad tracks.
In conjunction with Israel’s National Railway Company, the company replaced 32 existing railroad pads with Innowattech’s electricity-generating pads to measure how well they produce electricity. The technology is based upon the piezoelectric effect, the production of electricity that occurs when certain materials - including crystals and some ceramics - are deformed.
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By RON FRIEDMAN
10/24/2010 02:56
Technion and Innowattech Energy Harvesting Systems develop way to detect overloaded trucks quickly and efficiently.
Truck drivers beware. A new technology developed by the Israel National Roads Company (INRC), together with researchers from the Technion and Innowattech Energy Harvesting Systems, enables vehicles to be weighed while in motion, meaning that overloaded trucks can be detected and prosecuted quickly and efficiently.
The new weighing system, a self-powered system which is embedded in the road, completed its final round of testing this week on Road 75, near Haifa.
The system, which has potential for use in law enforcement, infrastructure maintenance monitoring and road and bridge design and planning, is a further development of the partnership’s custom piezoelectric generators, which can be used to produce electricity from vehicle motion on the road.
According to Adrian Cotrus, director of the INRC’s research and development department, the development of the weigh-in-motion system was a direct by-product of the group’s original energy-producing solution, which was first revealed last year.
“We figured that if we’re already utilizing the vehicle’s motion for energy production, we could examine further applications and began working on the weigh-inmotion solution,” said Cotrus.
Cotrus said that while there are other weigh-in-motion technologies available around the world, what made their new development unique and groundbreaking is its level of accuracy and the fact that it allowed for real-time, wireless transfer of information and is self-powered.
“These systems are a landmark in our ability to ensure that trucks that overloaded do not make it to the road,” said INRC director-general Alex Viznitzer. “Overloaded trucks endanger other users of the road and damage the quality of the roads. The company will integrate Innowattech systems on bridges and other sensitive points.”
“This is the only system in the world that is embedded beneath the asphalt and allows accurate weighing at any speed and simultaneously enables the supply of electric energy needed to operate the monitoring system and communicate it to the relevant body. The system provides data on the weight as well as the speed of the vehicle,” said Innowattech’s CEO, Dr. Lucy Edery-Azulay.
Edery-Azulay said that the weigh-in-motion system had a huge market potential for the fields of industry, trade and services and could function as a monitoring system at the entrance and exit points of places like gas stations, ports, quarries and warehouses.
Cotrus said that the system could also be used in toll roads and bridges, enabling differential payment according to weight.
Innowattech’s first commercial project was launched in May, when it was commissioned to supply its technology for lighting road signs on the Venice-Trieste Highway in Italy.
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הטכנולוגיה הירוקה מאפשרת המרה של אנרגיה מתנועת רכבים בכביש - לאנרגיה חשמלית
חברת התשתיות הבינלאומית אימפרגילו בחרה באינוואטק הישראלית כספקית האנרגיה הבלעדית להפעלת שלטי ההכוונה שיופעלו לצידי הדרך המהירה בין ונציה לטרייסט. אימפרגילו המנוהלת מאיטליה מובילה פרוייקט לשידרוג הכביש בהשקעה של 225 מיליון אירו. פרויקט ונציה-טרייסט שהחל בשנת 2010, יסתיים ב-2013 ויכלול הרחבת הכביש לשלושה נתיבים, שדרוג הכביש הקיים והקמת גשרים ומעברים לאורך 18.5 קילומטרים.
אינוואטק, המחזיקה במרכז מו"פ בטכניון שבחיפה, פיתחה טכנולוגיה ליצירת אנרגיה חשמלית מתחדשת. הטכנולוגיה הירוקה מאפשרת המרה של אנרגיה מכאנית שמקורה בתנועת כלי תחבורה שונים כגון רכבים ורכבות לאנרגיה חשמלית.
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מנכ"לית החברה הישראלית: "הנהגים יקראו דיווחי תנועה משלטי הכוונה אלקטרוניים, שהפעלתם תבוצע ע"י חשמל שמקורו בתנועת כלי הרכב בהם הם עצמם נוהגים"
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Installation of the company's technology on the Venice-Trieste autostrada is the company's first commercial project.
Amiram Barkat (12 May 10 19:12)
Innowattech Ltd., which is developing technology to generate electricity from road traffic, will supply its technology for lighting road signs on the Venice-Trieste autostrada in Italy. This is the first commercial project for the company, which has an R&D center at Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
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Израильский старт-ап Innowattech, разработавший пьезоэлектрический генератор, который позволяет превращать энергию давления, оказываемого проезжающими автомобилями на дорожное полотно, в электрическую энергию, заключил свою первую сделку.
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מדובר בטכנולוגיה לייצור חשמל תוך ניצול הלחץ שמופעל על האספלט מצד המכוניות שנעות עליו
חברת אינוואטק הישראלית יוצאת לחו"ל: חברת התשתיות הבינלאומית אימפרגילו בחרה באינוואטק כספקית האנרגיה הבלעדית להפעלת שלטי ההכוונה שיופעלו לצידי הדרך המהירה בין ונציה לטרייסט שבאיטליה. מדובר בטכנולוגיה לייצור חשמל תוך ניצול הלחץ שמופעל על האספלט מצד המכוניות שנעות עליו. לפני כחצי שנה הציגה החברה את הטכנולוגיה גם בישראל, שם הוכח שניתן לייצר אנרגיה מספקת לתאורת כביש שמקורה בתנועת מכוניות על מקטע דרך מסוים.
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Scientists in Israel say they have invented a way of turning traffic into electricity. (Jul 12, 2009)
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An Israeli company is looking to harness energy created by people and vehicles and turn it into electricity. (4 March 2009)
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Researchers are finding new and clever ways to harness energy, including piezoelectricity, which may hold key answers in the global search for clean alternative energy. Discovery Channel tells us more…
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אתר האינטרנט כלכליסט מציג בכתבת ווידיאו, כיצד מפיקים חשמל מהכביש. פרויקט משותף לחברה הלאומית לדרכים, חברת אינוואטק והטכניון, שבו הוכחה לראשונה בעולם, ההיתכנות לביצוע המיזם. בשלב זה של המחקר, הושתלו גנרטורים מתחת לקטע כביש של כ-10 מטרים בעמק חפר. בשלב הבא, צפויות להבדק יכולות הייצור המסחריות של המיזם.
הכתבה של העיתונאי ליאור גוטמן
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מתוך מגזין גלובס: פיתוח של החברה הלאומית לדרכים, הטכניון וחברת אינוואטק - כביש מייצר חשמל.
לראשונה בעולם, הצליחו מדענים ישראלים, לייצר בעזרת גנרטורים פייזו-אלקטריים, חשמל, בזכות תנועת כלי רכב על הכביש.
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The Israeli project - a venture of the research and development firm Innowattech, which is linked to the Israel Institute of Technology, takes a slightly different tack. Piezoelectric ceramic tiles are embedded into the asphalt of a road, or the tracks of a rail line, and linked to modules that draw the electricity generated from the pressure exerted by passing vehicles.
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An Israeli energy start-up wants to turn irritating rush hour traffic into a source of electricity.
Innowattech, an energy company affiliated with Israel's Technion Institute of Technology, said special generators placed under roads, railways and runways can harvest enough energy from passing vehicles to mass-produce electricity.
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Some people think the road to tomorrow's most practical alternative energy source will be embedded with piezoelectric crystals capable of converting the mechanical strain of on-road vehicles into electrical current or voltage.
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Haifa (Israel) - An Israeli company called Innowattech has developed a way to recoup energy from cars operating on public roadways. Using piezoelectric crystals installed under the asphalt, highway vibrations are converted into a staggering amount of electricity. According to the developer, up to 500 kilowatts from a busy four-lane road per kilometer: Enough to power about 100 homes.
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London, Dec 11 (ANI): Engineers in Israel are hoping to develop roads into power stations, by using crystals to harvest energy from passing vehicles.
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Researchers at the Techion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa hope to convert open highways into renewable energy generators using the technology that has always made some heads turn - piezoelectricity. Developed by Haim Abramovich, the plan intends to place piezoelectric crystals under the asphalt that convert vibrations of passing vehicles into electricity.
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AN ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly road that positively welcomes heavy traffic may sound odd, but by placing piezoelectric crystals under the asphalt that convert vibration into electricity, Israeli engineers hope to harvest energy from passing vehicles.
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Driving your car may become a guilt-free pasttime once again if an Israeli inventor manages to turn roads into generators that can recharge clean electric vehicles.
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One of the questions that always accompany any discussion of electric vehicles is how to offset the increased demands they will place on our existing -- and future -- power grid systems. Innowattech, a spinoff of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, thinks it has found an answer in piezoelectric crystals.
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London, Dec 11 : Engineers in Israel are hoping to develop roads into power stations, by using crystals to harvest energy from passing vehicles.
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A new design, devised by Haim Abramovich, a developer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, may hold the key to harnessing the power of moving vehicles to create electricity
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We are told that driving alone in our cars is a waste of our dwindling fuel supplies.
But scientists now claim they have developed a way to use the movement of cars along a street to generate electricity.
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Engineers at Innowattech in Israel recently created a new type of road that generates electricity as vehicles pass over it! The supercharged surface is embedded with piezoelectric crystals, which transform kinetic energy from passing vehicles into an electrical current.
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Roads of the future could provide the power to charge up the electric cars that drive them.
Israeli engineers are developing a system that would allow the road itself to generate electricity from the flow of cars.
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Des ingénieurs d’Innowattech en Israël, ont mis au point une route capable de transformer l’énergie cinétique des voitures qui passent en courant électrique, grâce à des cristaux piézoélectriques.
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..This principle of creating electricity has been used in devices placed under the asphalt to convert its vibrations into electricity, in Israel, by which engineers hope to harvest the energy from passing vehicles.
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