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Screen Printed RuO2 Films for Energy Storage and Electrochemical Sensors (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Paul, F., Sam, V., Uppuluri, K., Beg, M., & Manjakkal, L. (2024, February). Screen Printed RuO2 Films for Energy Storage and Electrochemical Sensors. Poster presented at The 10th annual Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference (innoLAE 2024), Cambridge

Facilitators and benefits of implementing lean premise design: A case of Hong Kong high-rise buildings (2023)
Journal Article
Lam, E. W., Chan, A. P., Olawumi, T. O., Wong, I., & Kazeem, K. O. (2023). Facilitators and benefits of implementing lean premise design: A case of Hong Kong high-rise buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 80, Article 108013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.108013

Defective design, poor stakeholder participation, and a mismatch between design provisions and end-user requirements cause most building construction waste. However, lean building design promotes collaboration and reduces waste. This study examines t... Read More about Facilitators and benefits of implementing lean premise design: A case of Hong Kong high-rise buildings.

Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2023, May). Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites. Poster presented at RubberCon 2023, Edinburgh

Smart multifunctional polymeric composites such as magnetoactive polymers, electroac-tive polymers and photopolymers are increasingly being explored for various applications in soft robotics, energy harvesting, flexible electronic devices, precision... Read More about Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites.

Energy performance of Scottish public buildings and its impact on their ability to use low-temperature heat (2023)
Journal Article
Reguis, A., Tunzi, M., Vand, B., Tuohy, P., & Currie, J. (2023). Energy performance of Scottish public buildings and its impact on their ability to use low-temperature heat. Energy and Buildings, 290, Article 113064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113064

Decarbonising heat in the UK by 2050 will require the wider adoption of low-temperature heat. Current systems, largely relying on gas boilers, have design operating temperatures of 82/71°C (supply/return) while new standards for 4th Generation Distri... Read More about Energy performance of Scottish public buildings and its impact on their ability to use low-temperature heat.

France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution (2022)
Other
Ryan, D. (2022). France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution. [Blog post]

France has approved legislation that will require all car parks with more than 80 spaces to be covered over by solar panels. This is part of a wider programme that will see solar panels occupy derelict lots, vacant land alongside roads and railways,... Read More about France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution.

Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100 (2022)
Journal Article
Arehart, J., Pomponi, F., D'Amico, B., & Srubar, W. (2022). Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 186, Article 106583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106583

This study uses material flow analysis to estimate the material stocks and flows and associated upfront embodied carbon emissions for gravity building structural systems in the United States. Seven scenarios that align with the shared-socioeconomic p... Read More about Structural Material Demand and Associated Embodied Carbon Emissions of the United States Building Stock: 2020-2100.

Short-term individual residential load forecasting using an enhanced machine learning-based approach based on a feature engineering framework: A comparative study with deep learning methods (2022)
Journal Article
Forootani, A., Rastegar, M., & Sami, A. (2022). Short-term individual residential load forecasting using an enhanced machine learning-based approach based on a feature engineering framework: A comparative study with deep learning methods. Electric Power Systems Research, 210, Article 108119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108119

Accurate short-term forecasting of the individual residential load is a challenging task due to the nonlinear behavior of the residential customer. Moreover, there are a large number of features that have impact on the energy consumption of the resid... Read More about Short-term individual residential load forecasting using an enhanced machine learning-based approach based on a feature engineering framework: A comparative study with deep learning methods.

Computational investigation of the chemical dynamics in detonation development at SI engine conditions (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Dimitrova, I. D., Sanal, S., Bau Luong, M., Tingas, S., & Im, H. G. (2021, November). Computational investigation of the chemical dynamics in detonation development at SI engine conditions. Paper presented at 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, Arizona

This study employs algorithmic tools from the computational singular perturbation (CSP) approach and statistics to investigate detonation development in SI engines using 2D simulations at different intensity levels – strong and mild detonations. The... Read More about Computational investigation of the chemical dynamics in detonation development at SI engine conditions.

Statistics of local and global flame speed and structure for highly turbulent H2/air premixed flames (2021)
Journal Article
Song, W., Hernández Pérez, F. E., Tingas, E., & Im, H. G. (2021). Statistics of local and global flame speed and structure for highly turbulent H2/air premixed flames. Combustion and Flame, 232, Article 111523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111523

A statistical analysis is conducted for turbulent hydrogen-air premixed flames at a range of Karlovitz numbers up to 1,126 by direct numerical simulations (DNS) with detailed chemistry. The local and global burning velocities are evaluated and the de... Read More about Statistics of local and global flame speed and structure for highly turbulent H2/air premixed flames.

Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport (2021)
Journal Article
King, R., & Tingas, E. (2021). Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport. Journal of Energy Engineering, 147(4), 04021025. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%29ey.1943-7897.0000775

As a result of anthropocentric climate change, there is an urgent need to decarbonize the supply of energy. Organic biomass, referred to as feedstock, can be converted into biofuels that have the potential to decarbonize transport. However, biofuels... Read More about Potential for Carbon-Neutral Advanced Biofuels in UK Road Transport.

Computational analysis of the effect of hydrogen peroxide addition on premixed laminar hydrogen/air flames (2021)
Journal Article
Tingas, E. (2021). Computational analysis of the effect of hydrogen peroxide addition on premixed laminar hydrogen/air flames. Fuel, 302, Article 121081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121081

In the current work, the effect of H2O2 addition on the flame structure, laminar flame speed and NOx emissions is investigated in the context of 1D laminar premixed H2/air flames at Tu = 300 and 600 K, p = 1 and 30 atm, = 0.5. Mathematical tools fro... Read More about Computational analysis of the effect of hydrogen peroxide addition on premixed laminar hydrogen/air flames.

A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, N. A., Powers, S. T., & Borg, J. M. (2020). A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing. In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2020 (ALIFE 2020) (95-103). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00290

Reducing the peak energy consumption of households is essential for the effective use of renewable energy sources, in order to ensure that as much household demand as possible can be met by renewable sources. This entails spreading out the use of hig... Read More about A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing.

Response of soil bacterial community composition and its associated geochemical parameters to rapid short-term cyclic groundwater-level oscillations: soil column experiments (2020)
Journal Article
Xia, X., Cheng, L., Zhu, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, K., Ding, A., …Zuo, L. (2020). Response of soil bacterial community composition and its associated geochemical parameters to rapid short-term cyclic groundwater-level oscillations: soil column experiments. Vadose Zone Journal, 19(1), Article e20011. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20011

Groundwater-level oscillations change geochemical conditions, carbon cycling processes and bacterial community composition, and these changes may vary vertically with depth in a soil. In this study, soil column experiments were conducted to explore v... Read More about Response of soil bacterial community composition and its associated geochemical parameters to rapid short-term cyclic groundwater-level oscillations: soil column experiments.

Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making (2020)
Journal Article
Susca, T., & Pomponi, F. (2020). Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(2), 410-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12980

Urbanization often entails a surge in urban temperature compared to the rural surroundings: the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Such a temperature increase triggers the formation of pollutants worsening the urban air quality. Jointly, bad air quality... Read More about Heat island effects in urban life cycle assessment: Novel insights to include the effects of the urban heat island and UHI‐mitigation measures in LCA for effective policy making.

Post-disturbance haulout behaviour of harbour seals (2019)
Journal Article
Paterson, W. D., Russell, D. J., Wu, G., McConnell, B., Currie, J. I., McCafferty, D. J., & Thompson, D. (2019). Post-disturbance haulout behaviour of harbour seals. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 29(S1), 144-156. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3092

1. The impact of anthropogenic activity associated with the construction of a proposed tidal turbine on harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) was investigated using controlled disturbance trials. 2. Trials were conducted by approaching hauled out seals by... Read More about Post-disturbance haulout behaviour of harbour seals.

Rich Data for Wind Turbine Power Performance Analysis (2019)
Dataset
Davison, B. (2019). Rich Data for Wind Turbine Power Performance Analysis. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.13020/1etn-1q17

This dataset was created in order to support comparative analyses concerning the relationships between meteorological parameters and wind turbine power output. It addresses some of the limitations of existing datasets such as those compiled for comme... Read More about Rich Data for Wind Turbine Power Performance Analysis.

Edinburgh Climate Festival 2019 - Sandy Brechin Band (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Currie, J., & Brechin, S. Edinburgh Climate Festival 2019 - Sandy Brechin Band. Performed at The Meadows, Edinburgh. 6 July 2019. (Unpublished)

The Edinburgh Climate Festival is a free, family friendly & community-led event taking place for the first time in the Meadows on Saturday 6th July. It aims at celebrating and inspiring climate action. Featuring live music, performances, stalls, kids... Read More about Edinburgh Climate Festival 2019 - Sandy Brechin Band.

Finding Fair Negotiation Algorithms to Reduce Peak Electricity Consumption in Micro Grids (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Powers, S. T., Meanwell, O., & Cai, Z. (2019). Finding Fair Negotiation Algorithms to Reduce Peak Electricity Consumption in Micro Grids. In PAAMS 2019: Advances in Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection (269-272). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24209-1_28

Reducing peak electricity consumption is important to maximise use of renewable energy sources, and reduce the total amount of capacity required on a grid. Most approaches use a centralised optimisation algorithm run by a utility company. Here we dev... Read More about Finding Fair Negotiation Algorithms to Reduce Peak Electricity Consumption in Micro Grids.

Do Metrics Matter? (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Innes, M., & Rosenfeld, S. (2019, May). Do Metrics Matter?. Presented at LightFair International 2019, Philadelphia, USA

Lighting metrics are neither absolute quantitative nor purely qualitative experiential measurements. Possibly uniquely amongst the SI system of physical measurements, the Candela is a pseudo-objective measurement based on the human visual experience.... Read More about Do Metrics Matter?.