Background
Gas Compression (GC) and Industrial Thermal Processing (ITP) are two major and often co-located CO2 emission hot spots within industrial clusters (ICs), contributing >5MT CO2/year to UK emissions. Both GC and ITP processes in ICs are highly energy-intensive and inefficient.
Associated Outputs
The 1st IDRIC-Sugergen joint workshop on Thermomechanical Energy Storage was successfully held at the University of Birmingham on 23 June 2022;
A perspective paper ‘Mobile energy recovery and storage: Multiple energy-powered EVs and refuelling stations’ has been published;
The patent for the ‘Mobile Energy Stored as Heat (MESH) system’ has been filed.
Prof Yulong Ding
Principal Investigator
University of Birmingham
Project Team
Co-I : Prof. Tony Roskilly, Durham University
Co-I: Prof. David Worsley, Swansea University
Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage – University of Birmingham:
Dr Yongliang Li
Dr Adriano Sciacovelli
Dr Jonathan Radcliffe
Dr Grant Wilson
Dr Tontong Zhang
Dr Song Yang
Dr Mengqu Bai
Dr Benjamin Gregoire
Dr Hongkun Ma
Dr Robin Fisher
Swansea University:
Dr. Jonathon Elvins
Department Of Engineering – Durham University:
Dr Zhiwei Ma
Dr Ruiqi Wang
Aim
The aims are to develop and demonstrate integrated and flexible solutions to address key technological challenges, to accelerate the IC decarbonisation and to facilitate the ICs to support wider energy network decarbonisation. The specific academic objectives of the project are:
- To flexibly integrate GC and ITP to give cost-effective and resilient decarbonisation solutions compatible with both existing (high-carbon) and future (net-zero-carbon) ICs;
- To ensure the proposed solutions support current and future local, national and international energy networks infrastructure including Mobile Energy Stored as Heat (MESH);
- To enhance the resilience of the proposed solutions to support business evolution within ICs;
- To dynamically and synergistically balance IC energy and compressed gas supply with demand in a cost-effective manner that also supports local multi-vector energy networks;
- To help enhance the competitiveness of IC companies, leading to the creation and protection of jobs in IC regions and their supply chains.
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Meet the Team
Prof Tony Roskilly
Prof Tony Roskilly
Durham University
Prof David Worsley
Prof David Worsley
Swansea University
Dr. Jonathon Elvins
Dr. Jonathon Elvins
Swansea University
Dr Tontong Zhang
Dr Tontong Zhang
University of Birmingham
Dr Jonathan Radcliffe
Dr Jonathan Radcliffe
University of Birmingham
Dr Yongliang Li
Dr Yongliang Li
University of Birmingham
Dr Adriano Sciacovelli
Dr Adriano Sciacovelli
University of Birmingham
Dr Zhiwei Ma
Dr Zhiwei Ma
Durham University
Grant Wilson
Dr Grant Wilson
University of Birmingham
Dr Song Yang
Dr Song Yang
Birmingham Centre of Energy Storage – University of Birmingham
Dr Mengqu Bai
Dr Mengqu Bai
Birmingham Centre of Energy Storage – University of Birmingham
Dr Benjamin Gregoire
Dr Benjamin Gregoire
University of Birmingham
Dr Hongkun Ma
Dr Hongkun Ma
Birmingham Centre of Energy Storage – University of Birmingham
Robin Fisher
Dr Robin Fisher
University of Birmingham
Dr Ruiqi Wang
Dr Ruiqi Wang
Department Of Engineering – Durham University
Team 1
Prof Tony Roskilly
Durham University
Team 1
Prof David Worsley
Swansea University
Dr Yongliang Li: University of Birmingham
Dr Yongliang Li
University of Birmingham
Dr Adriano Sciacovelli, University of Birmingham
Dr Adriano Sciacovelli
University of Birmingham
Dr Jonathan Radcliffe, University of Birmingham
Dr Jonathan Radcliffe
University of Birmingham
Grant Wilson
Dr Grant Wilson
University of Birmingham
Dr. Jonathon Elvins, Swansea University
Dr. Jonathon Elvins
Swansea University
Dr Zhiwei Ma, Durham University
Dr Zhiwei Ma
Durham University
Dr Tontong Zhang
Dr Tontong Zhang
University of Birmingham
Dr Song Yang
Dr Song Yang
Birmingham Centre of Energy Storage – University of Birmingham
Dr Mengqu Bai
Dr Mengqu Bai
Birmingham Centre of Energy Storage – University of Birmingham
Dr Benjamin Gregoire
Dr Benjamin Gregoire
University of Birmingham
Dr Hongkun Ma
Dr Hongkun Ma
Birmingham Centre of Energy Storage – University of Birmingham
Robin Fisher
Dr Robin Fisher
University of Birmingham
Dr Ruiqi Wang
Dr Ruiqi Wang
Department Of Engineering – Durham University
Investigate Further
Our team has made many efforts to enhance the dissemination and knowledge exchange of our work. We have been working with IEA Tasks partners (Task 36 Carnot Batteries) and Supergen Energy Storage Network+ etc, meeting and collaborating with industrial partners across different Industrial Clusters (including Siemens Energy and Mettis aerospace etc.), and attending international workshops and conferences (including 3rd International Workshop on Carnot Batteries and World Energy Storage Conference 2022 etc.) to promote our work supported by IDRIC. We also keep on disseminating our work on the Twitter (@BCES_UoB).
An introduction to Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage:
