Projects (54)

Resilient & Green Healthcare in Egypt: AI aided optimal electrothermal energy management strategy software development Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026
Resilient & Green Healthcare in Egypt: AI aided optimal electrothermal energy management strategy software development

Development of a New Hydro Power Device Feb 27, 2024 - Oct 18, 2024
The development and preliminary evaluation of a device harnessing hydro power from the nearby river Tweed, the main objectives are:- measurement, modelling and simulation project designed to fully investigate and analyse the device and its power perf... Read More about Development of a New Hydro Power Device.

Transforming Agriculture Residues to Bio-Composite Solutions for Sustainable Growth and Energy Efficiency in Brazil and Bangladesh Dec 13, 2024 - Dec 12, 2027
Many countries, like Brazil and Bangladesh, struggle with inefficient energy use and limited access to clean energy sources (Bangladesh) leading to high electricity bills, unreliable power grids, and unhealthy cooking practices. Brazil and Bangladesh... Read More about Transforming Agriculture Residues to Bio-Composite Solutions for Sustainable Growth and Energy Efficiency in Brazil and Bangladesh.

Development of an innovative grid-scale energy storage to push UK and China renewables Sep 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2025
Wind and solar energy holds a lot of promise when it comes to replace the conventional energy sources such as fossil fuels and coal. However, there is one problem: How do we store solar and wind energy for times where wind doesn’t blow or sun doesn’t... Read More about Development of an innovative grid-scale energy storage to push UK and China renewables.

Sustainable Evaluation of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Materials in Domestic Applications" Nov 1, 2023 - Nov 30, 2026
This project will evaluate and compare the environmental impact and real sustainability of some of the most technically promising PCMs integrated into a hot water tank for domestic LHTES
application. The results of this research will increase the un... Read More about Sustainable Evaluation of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Materials in Domestic Applications".

Accelerating Transformative Technology for Sustainable Clean Energy Development Dec 1, 2024 - Nov 30, 2026
Supporting 3 ECRs from Malaysia/Indonesia/Egypt in the renewable technology to achieve net zero

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees Mar 1, 2020 - Jan 31, 2025
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinary research—a shelter prototype called Makazi (winn... Read More about SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees.

Accelerating the discovery and characterisation of new energy storage materials Apr 1, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026
This multidisciplinary project aims to accelerate the discovery and development of innovative and sustainable multi-component and heterogeneous materials. It necessitates a collaborative approach utilising complementary expertise. The project's prima... Read More about Accelerating the discovery and characterisation of new energy storage materials.

Researcher in Residence -- Multi-Scale Energy Systems Modelling Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 17, 2026
This project is funded by the Innovation Launchpad Network+ for £50K research collaboration project with one of the catapults. This project will be a collaboration with the Energy systems catapult on "Multi-scale Energy systems modelling". The proje... Read More about Researcher in Residence -- Multi-Scale Energy Systems Modelling.

Development and Optimisation of the Dolphin Wave Energy Converter Oct 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2027
The Dolphin Wave Energy Converter will be analysed and optimised using different techniques. Experimental and theoretical work will be required to come up with an optimum device capable of gathering energy from the sea waves motion.

Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2026
Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain

Modular Energy Islands for Sustainability and Resilience Jan 1, 2023 - Oct 11, 2025
The MODENERLANDS Action aims to merge and systematise the efforts of the European Research and Development (R&D) groups working on Sustainable Energy and the related technologies, in particular wind and wave energy sources, by proposing pathways for... Read More about Modular Energy Islands for Sustainability and Resilience.

Design model predictive control with swarm inspired MPPT algorithms to extract optimum power for a single-stage grid connected PV inverter Jun 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2023
Brief Description

This project aims to develop a control algorithm using Model predictive control with swarm-inspired MPPT algorithm for a single stage grid connected PV inverter. Single-stage PV inverters are the key to adopting mass-scale PV rea... Read More about Design model predictive control with swarm inspired MPPT algorithms to extract optimum power for a single-stage grid connected PV inverter.

Optimal and robust methodologies for nonlinear control systems with applications to the control of renewable wave-energy converters Aug 31, 2022 - Nov 20, 2023
This project is a theoretical study at the interface of mathematics and control engineering, investigating mathematical models which arise in the context of renewable wave-energy converters. Research into wave-energy is an active area, with strong re... Read More about Optimal and robust methodologies for nonlinear control systems with applications to the control of renewable wave-energy converters.

Novel portable aluminum-air battery: A green technology for sustainable power generation via circular economy approach Mar 31, 2022 - Mar 30, 2023
The main aim of this research is to produce a high performance portable cellulose-based aluminium-air battery. Based on this aim, several specific objectives are outlined as the following:
1. To process high purity cellulose nanofibrils from water h... Read More about Novel portable aluminum-air battery: A green technology for sustainable power generation via circular economy approach.

Redevelopment of the Rough reservoir as a hydrogen storage facility Sep 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2023
To numerically assess the performance of the Rough gas facility as a hydrogen storage facility using an alternative cushion gas such as CO2, it requires a numerical simulator which is capable of modelling thermodynamics of the gas mixture and multi-p... Read More about Redevelopment of the Rough reservoir as a hydrogen storage facility.

Dolphin Wave Energy Device Computational Analysis Jan 31, 2022 - Apr 30, 2022
This project’s objectives are:
To evaluate the device design and optimise it for maximum power output using the following techniques:
A CAD model of the device
A Finite Elements Analysis (CFD) model
A Blade Optimisation and materials selection in... Read More about Dolphin Wave Energy Device Computational Analysis.

Computational analysis of a zero-carbon hydrogen fuelled thermal engine for heavy duty transport applications Oct 1, 2021 - Jun 30, 2022
Two types of transport which are currently challenging to decarbonize and electrify are heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) and ships. HDVs and ships are predominantly powered by compression ignition (CI) engines fueled with diesel. Hydrogen use in CI engines... Read More about Computational analysis of a zero-carbon hydrogen fuelled thermal engine for heavy duty transport applications.

Accelerating the Electric Vehicle Revolution Apr 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2022
The proposed project includes two activities: a two-day event and a public opinion survey. The event, which will be hybrid, will target both secondary school students and adults through individual activities. For the first, engagement with secondary ... Read More about Accelerating the Electric Vehicle Revolution.

Phase I: Innovation and commercialisation of homegrown wood fibre insulation Jan 18, 2021 - May 31, 2022
A project that seeks to outline the innovation and commercial use of natural fibre insulation products in the UK. It will be based on a gap analysis of products that are currently available from natural fibre materials but are non-UK produced. Addit... Read More about Phase I: Innovation and commercialisation of homegrown wood fibre insulation.