Current Projects
Development of functional porous particulates for green ammonia production
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: January 2023 – June 2024
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X018253/1
Hydroxide-Based Thermochemical Energy Storage Technology
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute GMBH
Project duration: December 2022 – November 2024
Plasma Assisted Thermo-Chemical energy storage for Carnot batteries (PATCH)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: November 2022 – October 2024
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W027887/1
Heat Accumulation from Renewables with Valid Energy Storage and Transformation (HARVEST)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: October 2021 – March 2025
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/V041665/1
Flexible Air Source Heat pump for domestic heating decarbonisation (FASHION)
Lead organisation: University of Glasgow
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: September 2021 – August 2024
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/V042033/1
A flexibly integrated solution for gas compression and industrial thermal processing decarbonisation (IDRIC Project 72)
Lead organisation: Heriot-Watt University
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: July 2021 – June 2023
Project website: Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre
Solar-driven thermochemical fuel conversion from carbon dioxide for energy accumulation and storage
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: The Royal Society
Project duration: March 2021 – March 2023
Electro-Intrusion: Simultaneous transformation of ambient heat and undesired vibrations into electricity via nanotriboelectrification during non-wetting liquid intrusion-extrusion into-from nanopores
Lead organisation: CIC Energigune
Funder: European Commission
Project duration: January 2021 – December 2024
Project website: Electro-Intrusion
A new high-temperature carbon-based anti-corrosion coating material
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Baowu Carbon Material Technology Co. Ltd
Project duration: 01/10/2021 – 30/04/2023
Collaborative development of renewable/thermally driven and storage-integrated cooling technologies (CO-COOL)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: European Commission
Project duration: October 2020 – September 2025
Project website: CO-COOL
Functional and advanced insulating and energy harvesting/storage materials across climate adaptive building envelopes (iclimabuilt)
Lead organisation: National Technical University of Athens
Funder: European Commission
Project duration: March 2021 – February 2025
Project website: iclimabuilt
Generation of REfrigerated ENergy Integrated with Cold Energy storage (GREEN-ICEs)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: September 2020 – August 2024
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/T022701/1
Supergen Energy Storage Network Plus
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: 01/07/2019 – 01/09/2024
Project website: Supergen Energy Storage Network+
Completed projects
KTP - Aggregated Micro Power Holdings Plc
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Innovate UK
Project duration: September 2019 – August 2021
Investigation of thermo-mechanical performance of phase change materials- incorporated Geothermal Energy Pile (PCMinGEEP)
Lead organisation: University of Surrey
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: June 2019 – May 2021
Project website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS037349%2F1
Flow boiling heat transfer behavior of microencapsulated phase change materials slurry and its application on battery pack thermal management
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: BRIDGE Seed Fund
Project duration: August 2019 – July 2020
Research on Key Technologies for Electric Vehicles Battery Thermal Management Based on Novel Phase Change Materials
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute (GEIRI) GMBH
Project duration: February 2018 – January 2019
Development of Modular Ice Slurry Production Equipment and its application on Milk Fast Cooling
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Guangzhou Koling Energy Technology Ltd
Project duration: April 2018 – March 2020
Accelerating Thermal Energy Technology Adoption (ATETA)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: European Structural and Investment Funds
Project duration: March 2017 – February 2020
Garnet Electrolytes for New Energy Storage Integrated Solutions (GENESIS)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: October 2017 – September 2020
Project website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR024006%2F1
Nano-Structured PCM Composites for Compact Space Heating (n-CoSH)
Lead organisation: University of Exeter
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: October 2016 – September 2019
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P003435/1
Feasibility study for requalification of marginal sites into Liquid Air Energy Storage plant
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: ENEL SPA
Project duration: March 2016 – September 2016
Multi-scale Analysis for Facilities for Energy Storage (Manifest)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: July 2016 – June 2020
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/N032888/1
A hybrid approach for thermal design and management of lithium-ion battery packs
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Royal Society
Project duration: April 2016 – March 2018
Adsorption Cooling-Energy Conversion with Encapsulated Sorbents (ACCESS)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: June 2016 – December 2019
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/N021142/1
Cryogenic-temperature cold storage using microencapsulated phase change materials in slurries
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: October 2015 – September 2019
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/N000714/1
A novel air-conditioning technology based on energy storage for high-speed trains
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: CSR QINGDAO SIFANG CO LTD
Project duration: October 2015 – June 2017
Key phase change-based energy storage technologies for effective renewable energy utilisation
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: SGRI EUROPE GMBH
Project duration: December 2014 – October 2016
Flow and heat transfer of air under supercritical conditions (PhD studentship)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: AIR PRODUCTS PLC
Project duration: April 2015 – March 2018
Nanostructured materials for solar thermal applications with distributed systems (Collaboration with India)
Lead organisation: University of Birmingham
Funder: British Council
Project duration: May 2014 – April 2016
Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids
Lead organisation: Imperial College London
Funder: Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
Project duration: October 2012 - September 2017
Project website: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K002252/1