All Energy May 2014 Energy at University of Nottingham 1

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

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

4 Energy RD&D, CDTS, labs, knowledge exchange space Low carbon exemplar: BREEAM Outstanding Award Winning: 2014 BREEAM Best Performing Buiding 2100m² on award winning Jubilee Campus Innovation Park c. £8.8M investment: Energy Technologies Building

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

6 Industrial Doctoral Centre in clean fossil energy (£6M) Adsorbents for CO 2 capture Advanced combustion Plant life extension Founding member of UKCCS Supergen hub(£13m), led by Edinburgh Fossil energy and carbon capture and storage Pellets capturing CO2 using amine polymer

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

8 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 Renewable energy

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

10 Creative Energy Homes o Seven showcase homes o 150 companies, £2.5M Energy generation o Solar, micro-wind o CHP, biomass, ground Energy efficiency o Demand side management o Construction materials o Cooling, ventilation, light Sustainable cities lab Efficient energy buildings Creative Energy Homes, University Park

11 Power Conversion and control o Renewable integration o Distributed generation o Smart microgrids (AC and DC) o 6 kV HVDC microgrid (£1.6 M) o Aerospace and marine Energy storage (“supercabatteries”) o Supercabatteries o Batteries o Hydrogen o Appropriate energy storage Future electrical power grids UNIFLEX Controller

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

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

University of Nottingham Rolls-Royce Transmissions & Fluids UTC

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.

16 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) Training and Skills Investment In Energy 13 March 2012