ATETA

• Thermal Energy Storage Systems
• Thermal Materials – Development and Applications
• Clean Cold Energy Systems
• Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

• Distributed Energy System Design and Grid Integration
• Power Systems and Smart Grid Economics
• Smart Power Grids and real-time simulation
• Monitoring and Control Systems

• Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies
• Power Generation Technology and Alternative Fuels
• EfW Technology, Simulation and Design

David Terry 

David is the ATETA Business Engagement Manager within the Birmingham Energy Institute, part of the University of Birmingham’s College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.  David has over 20 years’ experience of commercial development of low carbon technologies and in particular, renewable energy infrastructure. The focus of his current role is to manage the delivery of the ATETA project and facilitate support collaborative research activity between innovative small and medium enterprises and the academic expertise with the Birmingham Energy Institute. View David's LinkedIn profile. 

 

Richard Baines

Richard Baines trained as an architect, worked in product and market development in the construction and manufacturing sector and owned and managed several businesses in manufacture and consultancy.He has been a director of the National Right to Fuel Campaign and past Chair of the Midlands Environmental Business Company and Chase Community Solar. He was seconded to the Energy Systems Catapult, from the University of Birmingham, and is now assisting Midlands businesses by identifying how the University of Birmingham can assist them to overcome barriers to profitability. View Richard's LinkedIn profile. 

 

Dr Lorelei Gherman 

Lorelei has worked as a researcher in manufacturing engineering for the past 10 years. She was involved in projects engaging both academia and industry, having taken a special interest in bringing innovation to SMEs. She is keen on using her knowledge of research and engineering in supporting businesses in the Black Country. View Lorelei's LinkedIn profile. 

 

 

Evelyn Phoenix 

Evelyn has worked for Rolls-Royce for the past eight years on various engineering projects across the aerospace and marine sectors as a Project Manager. Prior to this she worked in corporate liaison for a geological conservation charity covering Herefordshire and Worcestershire. She really enjoys working with different types of companies and has a focus on conservation and supporting a reduction in energy waste. Having now joined ATETA she will be focusing on liaising with SMEs in Worcestershire and looks forward to promoting ATETA's expertise in helping companies achieve net carbon neutral and adoption of green energy solutions. View Evelyn's LinkedIn profile. 

 

Dr Yousif Al-Sagheer PhD

Yousif specialises in supporting businesses in water electrolyser integration to renewable energy sources  to produce green hydrogen fuel. This offers technical support and helps assessing feasibility of such businesses. 

Yousif supports business needs within the following fields: 

• Green Hydrogen Fuels
• Hydrogen Systems Integration to Renewable Energy Sources
• Fuel Cells Applications (Design, sizing, and control)
• Fuel Cells Hybrid Electric Vehicles

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Dr Dave Eckold PhD 

Dave specialises in tribology—friction, wear & lubrication. Additionally, he has supported businesses with mechanical design expertise to provide prototype designs for parasitic generators to capture wasted energy in gym equipment, improved the design of insulating doors for warehouse applications, and reviewed designs for small scale wind turbines.

Dave supports business needs within the following fields: 

• Testing frictional modifier additives for lubricants designed for automotive use
• Researching graphite-free alternatives lubricants for non-ferrous forging applications
• Researching alternative bearing materials for omnidirectional bearings
• Consulting on the suitability of magnetic bearings for wind applications

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Dr Amruta Joshi PhD

Amruta specialises in supporting businesses with needs in the following fields: 

• Renewable energy resources including solar photovoltaics and energy storage for smart grids
• Optimisation of energy storage for different applications including microgrid, V2G(vehicle to grid)
• Energy efficiency analysis including carbon footprint calculations, techno-economic analysis of energy systems

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Dr Tiejun Lu PhD 

Tiejun specialises in supporting businesses with thermal energy storage businesses challenges, this includes cold storage solutions.

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Dr Helena Navarro PhD 

Helena supports businesses across different sectors, offering lab support in Thermal Energy storage for material characterisation. She also advises on the new trends and opportunities to achieve a reduction in energy consumption, materials revalorization and explores new business opportunities.

Helena specialises in supporting businesses with needs in the following fields: 

• Heat storage
• Cold storage
• Materials development
• Materials recovery
• Recycling

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Dr Pouriya Niknam

Pouriya specialises in supporting businesses with energy optimisation and waste heat recovery solutions to drive emission reduction and increase the process efficiency and their revenue base. 

Pouriya supports business needs within the following fields: 

• Waste heat recovery by thermal energy storage systems 
• Computational fluid dynamics analysis for product development and performance enhancement 
• Optimisation and retrofit of processes in chemical, petrochemical, and power industries (both conventional and renewable)
• Feasibility assessment and multi-physics modelling of emerging solutions in the energy sector

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Dr Hadi Nozari PhD 

Hadi specialises in Energy from Waste Technologies and sustainable fuels including Hydrogen, Bio Gas and Bio Diesel. 

Particularly, Hadi supports business needs within the following fields: 

• Hydrogen fuel production and utilisation pathways
• NH3 production and utilisation pathways
• Biofuels applications for energy generation
• Combustion:Gasoline & diesel engines and after treatment technologies
  • Characteristics: flame speed, ignition, emissions
  • Fundamental flames: premixed and diffusion
  • Applications: burners, boilers, combustion chambers
  • Flame stability analysis
• Energy from Waste, Gasification and Fuel Reforming
• Gaseous emissions and particulates characterisation
• Chemical kinetics and equilibrium analysis
• Exhaust thermochemical recovery

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Dr Shivangi Sharma

Dr Shivangi Sharma has worked as a researcher in Sustainable Energy Systems with the last 7 years, specialising in Renewable Energy Engineering with Thermal Energy Storage systems. Prior to this, she worked in the industry for a similar period; associated with Tata, Volkswagen Group, and Jaguar Land Rover etc.

In her current role, Shivangi specialises in the design, analysis and integration of Renewable Energy Systems such as Solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated PV (CPV), Bioenergy, and Thermal Energy Storage (Phase Change Materials or PCM, and nano-materials). The end goal for most interventions is to innovate for energy efficiency and decarbonisation, and to improve the existing designs/technologies through research and development at all levels; from materials, devices, systems to whole system integration.

In addition, she is involved in Data Analytics and Energy Informatics projects on Local Energy Systems focussed in and around the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) area.

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Dr Conghuan Yang PhD

Conghuan specialises in supporting businesses with simulations and analysis in renewable energy, energy storage systems and EVs, to help or improve their system design or solve existing problems. 

Conghuan supports business needs within the following fields:

• Smart Grids
• Power Systems
• Monitoring & Control
• EV Charging
• Power generation

Sureena Sohal

Sureena previously worked for the West Midlands Manufacturing Consortium as a Team Leader of the Project Management Office, which delivered the Manufacturing Advisory Service programme supporting Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the West Midlands and North East. Prior to this she worked on delivering the Business Link contract at Advantage West Midlands, again supporting West Midlands based SMEs.  Her role involved contract management for European funded projects and monitoring partner delivery against core targets. 

During her project management roles, she has monitored contract compliance, coordinated project deliverables and milestones, maintained strict governance structures, managed and reported on complex budgets, driven marketing and communication activities and organised large events.

She then took a position as Project Manager at the University of Birmingham in August 2019. Sureena is responsible for managing the Accelerating Thermal Energy Technology Adoption (ATETA) project providing strategic direction and management to ensure that the project delivers in line with ERDF guidelines.