All Energy 21 -22 May 2014 Energy at

All Energy 21 -22 May 2014 Energy at University of Nottingham 1

Energy Technologies Research Institute (ETRI) Fossil Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage Bioenergy Efficient Energy Buildings Electrical Grids Energy Vectors and Storage Renewable Energy Accelerating a Low Carbon Economy 2

Overview • • Leading centre for energy RD&D c. £ 70 M current portfolio > 100 researchers Six priority themes Director and Board Energy Technologies Building Industrial Partnerships Industrial Advisory Board Eco-house, University of Nottingham 3

Energy Technologies Building • Energy RD&D, CDTS, labs, knowledge exchange space • Low carbon exemplar: BREEAM Outstanding • Award Winning: 2014 BREEAM Best Performing Buiding • 2100 m² on award winning Jubilee Campus Innovation Park c. £ 8. 8 M investment: Energy Technologies Building 4

Partnerships • Midlands Energy Consortium (MEC) • HEIs across UK, Europe, China, India, USA, Brazil • Major businesses eg E. ON, Alstom National Grid, Doosan Network of 13 Energy Centres for Doctoral Training donna. palmer@nottingham. ac. uk 5

Fossil energy and carbon capture and storage • Industrial Doctoral Centre in clean fossil energy (£ 6 M) • Adsorbents for CO 2 capture • Advanced combustion • Plant life extension • Founding member of UKCCS Supergen hub(£ 13 m), led by Edinburgh Pellets capturing CO 2 using amine polymer 6

Energy vectors and storage • H 2/FC Doctoral Centre (£ 5 M) • Hydrogen production • Hydrogen Storage • Fuel Cells MOF polymer for world-record H storage • Energy Storage o o Hydrogen Thermal Electrochemical Compressed air 7

Renewable energy • Wind energy o Structural engineering o Composite materials o Manufacture • Photovoltaics o Fundamental physics o Dye sensitized solar cells o Modelling and fabrication of organic solar cells 8

Bioenergy • Biofuels o Bio-ethanol & -butanol from agricultural waste o Synthetic fuels converted from waste gases using bacteria • BBSRC Bioenergy Centre (£ 27 m) • Biomass co-firing including sourcing, treatment, combustion etc • Thermochemical systems o eg UK-India project for rural biomass utilisation SCORE stove generating heat and electricity 9

Efficient energy buildings • Creative Energy Homes o Seven showcase homes o 150 companies, £ 2. 5 M • Energy generation o Solar, micro-wind o CHP, biomass, ground • Energy efficiency o Demand side management o Construction materials o Cooling, ventilation, light Creative Energy Homes, University Park • Sustainable cities lab 10

Future electrical power grids • Power Conversion and control o Renewable integration o Distributed generation o Smart microgrids (AC and DC) o 6 k. V HVDC microgrid (£ 1. 6 M) o Aerospace and marine • Energy storage (“supercabatteries”) o Supercabatteries o Batteries o Hydrogen o Appropriate energy storage UNIFLEX Controller 11

Research Themes • Demand Side Management • Appropriate Energy Storage • EV battery, H 2, supercapacitors • Contribution to “reserves” • Quality of Supply • Unbalance, Harmonics, Dips/Swells • DC • EMC • Frequency Control • Protection – fault detection, location, clearance • Power Electronics

Flex. Elec Laboratory • Microgrid Research • Terrestrial, Aircraft, Ship • Real-time equipment emulation • Hardware in the Loop • Busbar System • Top: 1 MVA 3 phase grid feed; • Middle: up to 300 A isolated three phase microgrid • Lower: isolated DC microgrid • Microgrid Supplies • 90 k. VA 3 phase 4 Q programmable source; • HVDC • 3 MW, 6 k. V multiport system currently under construction • HVDC control, protection and power electronic topologies

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Key Areas of Activity • • 2 -phase (esp. air-oil) flow in complex geometries Advanced dry seals Rotor dynamics Bearing analysis Process modelling Highly Loaded contacts Integrated fluid-structure-electromagnetic dynamics Heat-transfer. Resulting in improved performance, reduced weight, greater robustness, shortened design cycles and innovative solutions to emerging issues.

Training and Skills Investment In Energy • IDC – CCS and Cleaner Fossil Fuels • CDT – Fuel Cells and Their Fuels • CDT – Sustainable Chemistry • CDT – My Life in Data • International Doctoral Innovation Centre (IDIC) Energy (China Campus) 13 March 2012 16