This proposed work at Cranfield will be conducted by two distinct groups: the Energy Technology Centre (ETC) in the School of Applied Sciences (SAS) will take charge of Work Package 4 and the Offshore Renewable Energy group in the School of Engineering (SoE) are involved in Work Package 6.

The Energy Technology Centre

In the MATTRAN project the ETC will take charge of work package 4: internal corrsoion and degradation. Research activities at the ETC include combustion and gasification processes, process and flow modelling, controls and environmental performance, gas cleaning technology, CO₂ capture and storage, materials and coating performance, component life prediction. ETC staff co-ordinate the Europe-wide COST 538 'High Temperature Plant Lifetime Extension’, and participate in many EU networks, such as CO₂-NET. Within the UK, projects include co-ordination of UK Govt/EPSRC projects on novel gas cleaning methods, gas cooler materials, metallic filters; participation in a LINK project on gas turbines with CO₂ capture; participation in the EPSRC 'SUPERGEN consortia, and the UK NERC Carbon Capture and Storage Consortium. Within Europe, participation in EU/ECSC supported projects in novel CO₂ capture methods: `CCCC- Capture of CO<sub>2</sub> in Coal Combustion` and `C3 Capture. One of the most recent projects at the ETC is the BCURA B93 ‘The Effects of Impurities from Capture Technologies on CO₂ Compression and Transport’ project.

Prof. John Oakey is the head of the Energy Technology Centre in SAS at Cranfield University. He has more than 30 years experience of industry and university research with a background is in materials and process troubleshooting in solid fuel processing systems. As a senior manager at British Coal, he led a range of clean coal technology R&D programmes with funding from the UK DTI (BERR), ECSC (RFCS), and EU, as well as industrial companies. He has published more than 50 research papers on coal technology, materials performance and gas cleaning. He is a member of the UK’s Advanced Power Generation Technology Forum, Chair of the Management Committee for COST Action 538 on Plant Life Extension, co-ordinates a UK-US collaborative project on ‘Advanced Materials for Low Emission Power Systems’, and leads a UK/China collaborative project on gas turbines using low CV fuel gases.  

Dr. Bob Allwood, is a Course Director of the Offshore and Ocean Technology programme and the PhD with Integrated Studies and Marine Technology in SAS at Cranfield University. He is a contributing author to the 2006 East of England Energy Group report on the Re-Use of Offshore Oil and Gas Pipelines.

Dr. Kumar Patchigolla has been a Research Fellow in the Energy Technology centre and his role involves the management, functionality, maintenance and safety of the unique range of pilot scale research and demonstration of combustion, gasification and capture and transport of CO2 (Chemical/Calcium looping) facilities within the centre for energy and resource technology, evaluating the effects on component durability and gas cleaning requirements of systems using a wide range of solid fuels, including biomasses, waste and sewage sludge as well as coal either alone or in different co-fired combinations.
For more information please see:
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/aboutus/staff/patchigollak.html

Mr. Rob Maloney was awarded a BEng (Honours) degree in Ceramic Science & Engineering from the University of Sheffield, followed by an MSc in Materials Science & Engineering from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where his research concentrated on Rapid Prototyping.  Having spent the past 10 years as a Physics Teacher in both the independent and the state system, he joined Cranfield University as a PhD student in May 2010, studying within the Energy Technology Centre.

The Offshore Renewable Energy Group

The Offshore Renewable Energy Group, part of the Department of Offshore, Process and Energy Engineering is involved in the fracture model development for the CO₂ pipelines within the MATTRAN project, and along with UCL Chemical Engineering Group, comprise Work Package 6 of the MATTRAN. The group has had a long-standing international reputation for testing of critical components including the collection of crack growth data under simulated service conditions.

Prof Feargal Brennan
Feargal has over twenty years experience in internationally leading research in fatigue and fracture and its applications in offshore renewable and oil and gas sector.  He is currently Head of the Offshore, Process and Energy Engineering Department within the School of Engineering in Cranfield University and leads its Offshore Renewable Energy Group.  For more information and a list of publications, please see:

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/SOE/Profiles/f_brennan.html

Dr Amir Chahardehi Amir has been a Research Fellow in the Offshore Renewable Energy Group since Sept 2008 and his research interests are structural integrity and its applications to offshore renewable energy.  He obtained an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2004 and subsequently received a PhD in Fatigue Crack Growth in Complex Stress Fields in 2008 from Cranfield University.  For more information and a list of publication please see:

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/profiles/page49169.html

Mr Payam Zargarzadeh Payam received an MEng in Airspace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and is currently a PhD student at the Offshore Renewable Energy Group at Cranfield working on the structural integrity issues of CO₂ transport pipelines.  Payam has over eight year work experience in oil and gas and pipeline engineering.