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Sustainable Power Generation and Storage
DEI's research is delivering improvements to existing renewable technologies, ensuring that offshore wind, solar, bio-energy and conventional power can generate more economically, reliably and at multiple scales, and developing new energy sources and technologies, driving research into novel high-efficiency energy designs, nuclear fusion and energy storage to help to make a zero-carbon future a reality.
Current Projects
- Offshore Cable Burial - how deep is deep enough?
- Free-piston Reciprocating Joule-cycle Engine-based Micro-combined Heat and Power System
- Zero-Carbon Emission Integrated Cooling, Heating and Power (ICHP) Networks
- Energy Recovery of Ultra Low Grade Sources using Absorption Thermal Battery (ICURe)
- Development of a Risk Management Tool for Wind Turbine Blade Leading Edge Erosion
Completed Projects
- A New Partnership in Offshore Wind
- A Zero-emission Closed Loop Linear Joule Cycle Generator (ZECCY)
- Planning Under Uncertainty for Offshore Wind
- Trigeneration Recovery Efficient Energy Storage (TREES)
- Solid State Transformers for Offshore Wind Turbines
- Holistic Operations and Maintenance for Energy from Offshore Wind Farms
- A Hydrogen Powered Combined Heat and Power System
- MARLIN STAR Community Access to Stored and Transferrable Energy from Floating Renewables
- Accelerated Testing Methods for Wind Renewable Energy Systems
- Novel Power System Planning Techniques To Support Decisions On Offshore Transmission Assets Taken Under Severe Uncertainties Supported By Probability Bounding Method
- WIND2DC: Medium Voltage DC Power Take Off Technologies for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Energy Conversion and Collection Systems
Sustainable Power and Storage Researchers
| Staff | Research Areas |
|---|---|
| Chris Groves | Photovoltaics, organic electronic devices, new materials for energy generation |
| Simon Hogg | Offshore wind, power turbomachinery, energy systems |
| Karen Johnston | Functional materials for energy, Li-ion batteries, conversion materials for negative electrodes in Li- and Na- ion batteries, novel solid electrolyte materials |
| Zhiwei Ma | Adsorption heat pump, energy storage and carbon capture, thermal driven heating, cooling and power generation, thermal energy storage |
| Sumit Roy | Combined heat and power systems, free piston energy generators, alternative energy sources, electrolysers and fuel cells, hydrogen economy |
| Mahmoud Shabazi | Power conversion, renewable energy integration, power electronics, microgrids |
| Tony Roskilly | Hydrogen energy systems, thermal energy recovery, storage and utilisation, thermo-chemical energy storage, free-piston energy development, hydrogen combustion and CHP |
| Andrew Smallbone | Hydrogen production, distribution and use for storage and power, biomass with CCS for hydrogen and power generation, future energy systems and large scale energy storage |
| Shivaprasad Vijayalakshmi | Energy conversion technologies, combined heat and power, energy storage systems, engines and combustion |
| Qing Wang | Wind turbine condition monitoring, batteries and energy storage, product lifecycle engineering |
| Yaodong Wang | Biofuel trigeneration of power, heating and cooling, distributed renewable energy systems with energy storage, thermal power plant simulation and evaluation, cogeneration of power and cooling driven by low grade heat |