Dr Ian Wilson, Cambridge University
Reader in Chemical Engineering
Fouling is a major problem in process heat transfer, giving rise to losses in thermal efficiency and the need to clean fouled units. Our group investigates the causes of fouling, methods to mitigate fouling, the science underpinning cleaning, and the management of processes subject to fouling and cleaning. Applications range from oil refineries to dairies and water heaters. Our expertise extends from micron-scale experimental investigations in our laboratories to numerical simulation of individual heat exchangers, and monitoring of the large networks of heat exchangers in crude oil preheat trains to optimise their performance. There is extensive collaboration with industrial partners, including HTRI.
Web: http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/directory/ian-wilson
CPI - Centre for Process Innovation (UK)
The Centre for Process Innovation is a UK-based technology innovation centre and part of the government’s elite High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
We use applied knowledge in science and engineering combined with state of the art facilities to enable companies to develop, prove, prototype and scale up the next generation of products and processes.
Contact: Graham Hillier, Director of Strategy and Futures.
Econotherm (UK)
We are a leading UK based manufacturer of Heat Pipe Waste Heat Recuperators, Economisers, Pre-Heaters and Steam Condensers. Our patented super conductor Heat Pipe technology is used in a wide range of applications across many diverse industrial sectors.
Operation is through the factory base in Bridgend, UK with distributor offices in Warwick and around the world including in the USA, Spain and China.
Web: http://www.econotherm.eu/
Contact: Chris Bayliss - chris.bayliss@econotherm.eu
Fermentec (Brazil)
Robust yeast for ethanol production and other chemicals. Fermentec operates in the optimization of the industrial process for alcoholic fermentation and in the laboratorial control of all steps in sugar and alcohol production. With a team of professionals that are highly qualified in the areas of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Agronomy, together with is clients, Fermentec contributes to the development and dissemination of new technologies for the advancement of the sugar-energy industry.
Web: http://www.fermentec.com.br/en/index.php
Contact:
Henrique V. Amorim - amorim@fermentec.com.br
Johan Thevelein - Johan.Thevelein@mmbio.vib-kuleuven.be
Dr Jun Peng, University of Hertfordshire
Reader in Sustainable Energy Technology
School of Engineering and Technology
As leader of the Sustainable Energy Technology Research Group, Dr Peng’s main role is to be responsible for research activities on vehicle energy efficiency and emission control technology with an emphasis on IC engine combustion, performance and emissions control, in particular engine in-cylinder flow and combustion, fuel injection and heat transfer. His work has contributed to significant progress in a number of areas including: HCCI combustion on gasoline engines and diesel engines, gasoline direct injection and stratification combustion, the characterisation of diesel spray and air-fuel mixing, the effective use of exhaust gas recirculation on diesel and gasoline engines. Meanwhile he has been involved in some interdisciplinary research focused on sustainable vehicle powertrain technologies including vehicle exhaust waste energy recovery, internal flows of PEM fuel cell, hybrid powertrain system, carbon capture and storage. Those works include experimental investigations and numerical simulations.
Dr Christos Markides, Imperial College London
Senior Lecturer in Clean Energy Processes
Department of Chemical Engineering
Christos heads the Clean Energy Processes (CEP) research group at the Department of Chemical Engineering and the cross-faculty Energy Efficiency Network at Imperial College London. He was awarded a PhD in Energy Technologies in 2006 from the University of Cambridge. After his PhD he acted as the Technical Director of a Cambridge University Engineering Department spin-off company until his appointment at Imperial College in 2008. His current research interests focus primarily on the application of fundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transport to innovative, high-performance heat exchange systems, renewable energy technologies and thermodynamic systems for energy (heat and power) conversion, integration and storage, with emphasis on the efficient utilisation of low-grade (solar or waste) heat. He also has an on-going interest in advanced diagnostics as applied to turbulence, multiphase and reacting flows, and combustion for power generation with improved efficiency and reduced emissions.
Web: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.markides
Dr Paul Upham, University of Leeds
Cross Faculty Senior University Research Fellow
Energy and Sustainability Research Institutes
Dr Paul Upham has been Visiting Professor in Governance of Energy Systems and Climate Change at the Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki and is an affiliate of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He works on energy RD&D governance and policy, particularly socio-technical transitions theory and public and stakeholder behavior, attitudes and practices in relation to energy system change. Paul is interested in collaboration relating to innovation and/or public perceptions.
http://www.cier.leeds.ac.uk/
http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/people/p.upham
Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tx2aY7wAAAAJ&hl=en
NationalGrid (UK)
National Grid is aiming to beat its target to connect 80 biomethane projects to its gas distribution network by 2021. The delivery of renewable gas will deliver cost effective low-carbon heat to consumers and contribute to reducing CO2 emissions. Stuart Easterbrook from National Grid Gas Distribution talked about their experiences connecting the first of these projects across the UK, and their involvement with a pilot project developing a commercial scale capability for the production of synthetic bio-gas.
Web: http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/our-company/gas/sustainable-gas/
Contact:
stuart.easterbrook@nationalgrid.com
andrea.godden@nationalgrid.com
Nestlé UK Ltd
Nestlé UK, subsidiary of Nestlé SA, are manufacturers of some of the UK’s best loved brands such as NESCAFÉ and Kit Kat. We are one of the UK and Ireland's food industry’s major exporters, exporting over £300m worth of products every year to over 50 countries around the world.
We invest continuously to improve our environmental performance and ensure that the principle of sustainable development is embedded in our activities, brands and products <Nestlé Policy on Environmental Sustainability>
Contact: Sustainability Manager, Andrew Griffiths - andrew.griffiths@uk.nestle.com
Dr Yaodong Wang, Newcastle University
Senior Lecturer, Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research, School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering
Dr Wang has experience working on a wide array of research projects including: Miller Cycle petrol and diesel engines; flameless oxidation to reduce emissions; biofuel petrol/diesel engine; biofuel trigeneration and cogeneration;thermal energy management of processing industries; coal and biomass combustion and gasification; energy systems such as gas turbine; thermal power plants; renewable energy systems (wind + solar; biomass, water/hydropower) and energy storage technologies.
Email: yaodong.wang@newcastle.ac.uk Tel: 0191 2084934
Web: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/energy/people/profile/yaodong.wang
Dr Chian Chan, Newcastle University
Research Associate
Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research
Dr Chan currently works on the European "GREENFOODS" project which involves commercialisation of energy efficient production processes in SME food & beverage industry based around Europe. His other interests include:
- Thermo-economic feasibility study and design of biomass gasification (supercritical and plasma) and anaerobic digester (thermophilic).
- Thermal Energy Management: Identifying and reviewing latest technologies and practices of industries to increase energy usage and production efficiencies. In the past he conducted a review of heat pipe and heat pump technologies, i.e. adsorption, absorption, mechanical and ground source heat pumps.
Email: chian.chan@ncl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chian-wen-chan/22/389/9a0
PepsiCo Europe(Leicester, U.K)
PepsiCo is an international organisation with close to 300 000 employees working at various manufacturing sites, R&D facilities, distribution centres and offices. PepsiCo invests in sustainability and strives to find efficient ways to reduce energy demand through heat recovery and process optimisation. Their Casa Grande plant is run primarily on renewable energy sources and recycled water while producing zero landfill waste.
Contact: Development Manager, Ahmed N. Khan - ahmed.khan@pepsico.com
Prof. Ruzhu Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China.
Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, School of Mechanical Engineering,
Prof. Ruzhu Wang is a leading scientist for adsorption refrigeration research and solar cooling in the world. He has had systematic studies on adsorption refrigeration including the working principles, adsorption refrigeration working pairs, heat and mass transfer and thermodynamics. In recent years he had a deep involvement of green building energy systems. As a scientist in cryogenics, he also contributed a lot on heat transfer to superfluid helium.
In 2010, his project “Solar Air Conditioning and High Efficient Heating Equipments and Applications” has won the 2nd prize of State Technological Invention Award in China.
His group has developed various adsorption refrigeration systems which were highlighted in the world. He has very close collaborations with refrigeration industries worldwide. Meanwhile he had a lot of involvement in the future development of Energy in China.
Contact: Rzwang@sjtu.edu.cn/ Tel/Fax : +86-021-34206548
Web: http://me.sjtu.edu.cn/english/Faculty/showDetail.aspx?id=74
Professor Vida Sharifi, University of Sheffield
Head of Energy & Environmental Engineering Research Group
Director of SUWIC Research Centre
Professor Sharifi’s, research over the past 25 years has included working with the biomass/waste and power industries. Her work has made a major contribution to the development of the current generation of clean, efficient waste/biomass to energy plants. Her research interests and expertise include: sustainable energy engineering, integrated power and waste/biomass management systems, computational fluid dynamic modelling of thermal processes, combined heat and power networks (CHP), high efficiency power generation, pollution control, low grade heat recovery, residual ash disposal/re-use, micro-organic pollutants (e.g. dioxins/furans, particulates).
Professor Sharifi has been in charge of managing many EPSRC, European and industrial R & D programmes e.g EPSRC SuperGen Biomass and Bio-energy Consortium I & II (Themes 3 & 4), EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment (Waste Consortium – Theme 2), EPSRC Joint UK-China Network -Production of Clean Energy and Hydrogen via Novel Process Technologies etc.
Web: www.suwic.group.shef.ac.uk
Contact:v.n.sharifi@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Bob Critoph, University of Warwick
Director of i-STUTE (interdisciplinary centre for Storage, Transformation and Upgrading of Thermal Energy)
Prof. Bob Critoph is Director of i-STUTE (interdisciplinary centre for Storage, Transformation and Upgrading of Thermal Energy) and was previously Head of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Division of the School of Engineering at Warwick University. He has worked on heat pump and refrigeration systems since 1982, published over 100 papers, 2 book chapters, 5 patents and managed contracts worth £9M for industry, government and the EU. Industrial clients have included British Gas, Searle, and Unilever. He was Guest Editor of the recent special issue of the International Journal of Refrigeration on Refrigeration and Heat Pumping with Sorption Processes and the recipient of the Institute of Refrigeration's Lightfoot medal in 2013. Current research interests include adsorption heat pumps, thermal transformers and thermal storage.
Web: www.i-stute.org / http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/profile/rec/
Dr Hongwei Wu, Northumbria University
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Mechanical & Construction Engineering
Dr Hongwei Wu received his BEng (1st Class Honours, 1998), and PhD (2004) with specialisation in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (now Beihang University), China. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of British Columbia (2004-2006) and University of Alberta (2006-2007) in Canada for 2.5 years, and then he was appointed as an associate professor at Beihang University (2007-2009). Afterwards, he came to UK worked as a research fellow at Brunel University (2009-2012) and University of Birmingham (2012-2013) for over three years. Dr Wu joined the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) as a Lecturer in the School of Engineering & Computing since 1st August 2013. He is an active member of the research Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies (IEET). Dr Wu has been getting involved in various funded projects such as EU, EPSRC, NSERC (Canada), and he has published over 50 research papers in leading international journals as well as international conferences. Dr Wu’s research mainly focusses on but not limited to Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Thermal Systems and Energy Conversion Technology, Combustion and Heat Exchanger, Gas Turbine and Cooling Technology, Process Modeling, Simulation, Optimisation & Control.
Web: http://www.uws.ac.uk/staff-profiles/engineering/hongwei-wu/
Contact: +44(0)141 848 3684 [hongwei.wu@northumbria.ac.uk]