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EPSRC Engineering Net Zero Week – Panel Chair: Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer

June 20, 2022

Please join us online or in person for this EPSRC Engineering Net Zero Week event:

From ambition to action: Challenges and opportunities for a rapid urbanising world
Wednesday 22 June

13:45-14:35

Speakers:

Professor Marcelle McManus – University of Bath, Professor of Energy and Environmental Engineering & Director of the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technology
Mr Fergus Tickell – SGN Energy Features, Industrial Clusters and Business Development Lead
Professor Benjamin Sovacool – University of Sussex, IDRIC Research Co-Director
Dr Maxine Akhurst – Scottish Cluster, Principal Geologist and Project Leader, IDRIC Academic Cluster Lead

To attend online or in person please register here:

Read more about the background to this subject on our Blog published by UKRI

1 year since IDRIC was officially announced

May 25, 2022

We have been working hard in the past year and have built a great team.

This year has also seen:

The launch of 43 research projects
More than 100 researchers working on IDRIC project from across the UK
52 Engagement Activities
7 Influences on Policy
3 Awards

In less than 2 weeks we are welcoming our partners and wider stakeholder community to the first First IDRIC Partner & Stakeholder Forum (IDRIC-1).

We are excited to bring together UK industrial clusters and researchers to discuss research and innovation activities, impact and opportunities to achieve industrial decarbonisation and reach net zero targets

We have many initiatives planned in coming months so please do sign up to stay up to date with all our news.

Job Vacancy – Business and Impact Manager

May 4, 2022

IDRIC is looking for an ambitious Business & Impact Manager who will engage with partners and stakeholders, increasing the number and quality of strategic partnerships and delivering on IDRIC’s Knowledge Exchange (KE) commitments. The role requires inspiring leadership and direction for the IDRIC B&I team.

IDRIC is working at scale to bring together discipline and technology centred innovations, to accelerate the decarbonisation of industrial clusters.

If you are interested in joining our enthusiastic team, we would love to hear from you.

More information here

Scottish Government – £5M Challenge fund for CO2 Utilisation

April 29, 2022

The Scottish Government £5M Challenge fund for CO2 Utilisation (TRL 5-8 only) is now live.

Scotland’s CO2 utilisation sector is new and emerging. The aim of this challenge is to support Research and Development (R&D) to assist companies in developing technology that will lead to new commercial uses for CO2, and the creation of jobs, as part of Scotland’s journey to a low carbon economy

Suitable projects may use chemical, biological reactions or mineralisation to transform CO2 into a product or component with commercial value. Projects that focus on products and processes with low carbon intensity will be prioritised.

The challenge will support projects to develop and test products and to enable infrastructure developments at emissions sources for use in your project. However, projects with a strong focus on carbon capture technology are out of scope, as are projects which do not involve CO2 transformation – using CO2 as a solvent or working fluid, for example.

More Information Here

TFI Network+ Early Career Researcher Open Funding Call

April 29, 2022

The TFI Network+ is looking to fund high quality projects that, with industrial participation, have potential to drive transformative impact in the foundation industries, and will also enhance the career of the applicant. They would particularly welcome participation from companies who don’t have much experience of working with the Foundation Industries, but see potential to develop relationships with this sector.

More Information Here

IDRIC’s Statement on the Hydrogen Investor Roadmap

April 12, 2022

IDRIC’s Response to British Energy Security Strategy

April 12, 2022

Dubai – Expo 2020 & Heriot-Watt University

March 30, 2022

New PhDs at IDRIC

March 23, 2022

We are looking for creative, multidisciplinary, and highly motivated researchers to join our team at the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) at Heriot-Watt University to conduct research on key technologies for industrial decarbonisation.

We are able to offer 6 Funded PhD studentships (1 per project) starting this year.
The projects are as follows:

Green Hydrogen and Oxygen Production from electrolysis to Enable Deep Decarbonisation (EPS2022/IDRIC01)
Clean hydrogen storage and transport for net-zero energy (EPS2022/IDRIC02)
Sustainable production of industrial chemicals from clean hydrogen and biogenic CO2 (EPS2022/IDRIC03)
Removing atmospheric CO 2 using industrial wastes (EPS2022/IDRIC04)
Data-driven design of advanced cost-competitive carbon capture technologies for industrial decarbonisation (EPS2022/IDRIC05)
Toolkit to design and evaluate the performance of net-zero industrial clusters (EPS2022/IDRIC06)

More information is available here: PhD studentships in the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC)

Energy in Buildings & Industry

March 4, 2022

IDRIC’s Director, Prof. Maroto-Valer was featured in Energy in Buildings & Industry this week.

Prof Maroto-Valer talks about time-sensitive targets that are encouraging the development of innovative ways to improve processes and push boundaries