Contact Dr Fergus Crawley
Areas of expertise
- Hydrogen
Background
Fergus Crawley completed his MSc at Cranfield University in Advanced Mechanical Engineering and BEng at the University of Salford (Manchester) in Mechanical Engineering, with a year in industry working on new product development for a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) manufacturer. During his time as a Research Assistant at Cranfield he has been actively involved in design and prototyping thermoelectric systems for the Gates foundation: NMT project and Innovate UK Energy Catalyst: Solar Energy Harvesting project.
Current activities
Fergus is currently a Research Fellow at Cranfield University focusing on building a commercial prototype Green Hydrogen System, directly powering electolysers using solar pv (DC to DC power electronics). He has also been involved with the projects:
- ICASE PhD in Pieoelectric Energy Harvesting with BAE Sytems Ltd (2020-2024)
- Innovate UK Energy Catalyst project: Off-grid Cooker using Concentrated Solar with Integrated Thermoelectric power generation
- Re-invent the toilet challenge: Assisting the Lead Mechanical Design Engineer (2024)
- Solar - Hydrogen production systems with HyWaves Ltd (2023-2026)
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Crawley FJE & Luo Z. (2024). High force compression mode to Shear mode piezoelectric energy harvesting. Micro and Nano Engineering, 23
- Abdulkhaliq HS, Crawley F, Luk P & Luo Z. (2023). Piezoelectric energy harvester for harnessing rotational kinetic energy through linear energy conversion. Energies, 16(18)
- Nwalike ED, Ibrahim KA, Crawley F, Qin Q, Luk P, .... (2023). Harnessing energy for wearables: a review of radio frequency energy harvesting technologies. Energies, 16(15)
- Hussaini ZA, Crawley F, Luo Z, Sansom C, King P, .... (2023). A Novel Application of a Parabolic Trough Collector for Solar Cooking, Thermal Storage and Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting. SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 1
- Munthala D, Sonklin T, Pomyai P, Luo Z, Crawley FJE, .... (2021). In-situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) studies of electrical field induced domain switching in BCZT ceramics. Ceramics International, 47(17)