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X-MED: Extreme Loading of Marine Energy Devices due to Waves, Current, Flotsam and Mammal Impact |
Dr Tom Bruce
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Energy Systems |
Marine energy should make a substantial contribution to the UK renewable energy target of 30% electricity by 2020. Tidal stream turbines are a more mature technology than wave energy devices while the potential of wave energy is considerable. There is a growing capability and confidence in the loading and performance of marine energy devices in operating conditions as designs rapidly develop. However knowledge of extreme loading is less mature and indeed there is some uncertainty about their origin.
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WindSurf - A self-starting, active-pitch, vertical-axis wind turbine |
Dr Jonathan Shek
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Energy Systems |
WindSurf aims to develop a core enabling technology - active blade pitching for a vertical axis wind turbine. This will allow wind turbines to operate in challenging wind conditions, to operate quietly and for new, lower maintenance turbine designs. WindSurf will open up new sites for wind energy: sites previously rejected because wind speeds were too low, variable or subject to swirling, or where noise nuisance would have been a concern. WindSurf will tackle all three parts of the energy trilemma: reducing emissions, increasing security of supply, and reducing cost.
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Wastewater Bioremediation from Filamentous Algae |
Dr Andrea JC Semiao, Dr Michele Stanley (SAMS), Dr John G Day (SAMS)
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Infrastructure and Environment |
This Ph.D. aims to investigate the potential of filamentous green macroalgae (Chlorophyta) to bioremediate wastewaters. This will examine the ability of the macroalgae to sequester excess nutrients in effluent streams, as well as its biosorption and bioaccumulation capacity for heavy metals; with an end goal of using the biomass as a feedstock for bioenergy or for metal reclamation.
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VELaSSCo: Visualization for Extremely Large-scale Scientific Computing |
Prof. Jin Ooi
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Infrastructure and Environment |
The Vision of VELaSSCo is to provide new approaches for visual analysis of large-scale simulations for the Exabyte era. It does this by building on big data tools and architectures for the engineering and scientific community and by adopting new ways of in-situ processing for data analytics and hardware accelerated interactive visualization.
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Using short-ranged repulsion to tune suspension viscosity and shear thickening |
Dr. Jin Sun
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Infrastructure and Environment |
Dense suspensions of solid particles exhibit rich and fascinating flow behaviour.
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UDRC: University Defence Research Collaboration in Signal Processing |
Prof Mike Davies
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Imaging, Data and Communications |
Signal Processing is fundamental to the capability of all modern sensor weapon systems and the Defence Technology Strategy identified the development and application of signal processing techniques as high priority technical challenges within the MOD research agenda.
The UDRC is a leading partnership between industry, defence and is academia led and focuses on sensor signal processing for defence.
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Transporting, handling and storing behaviour of iron ore fines |
Prof. Jin Ooi
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Infrastructure and Environment |
This project attempts to deal with the challenges associated with handling and storage of cohesive solids in the mining industry. An adhesive-frictional model has been recently developed for DEM simulation of cohesive particles at the University of Edinburgh. This project will exploit the new method for modelling cohesive particulates for specific problems, such as effect of fines in silo discharge and the effect of time consolidation.
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Towards electrochemically controlled nucleic acid-amplification strategies |
Professor Anthony Walton
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Integrated Micro and Nano Systems |
Nucleic hybridisation is core to many biological processes and protocols used in molecular biology such as nucleic acid amplification, e.g. by PCR. This project aims to radically simplify nucleic acid amplification by driving the reaction via means of electrochemistry. To fulfil this aim, specialised expertise in biosensors, physical chemistry, biophysics and microsystems engineering is brought together.
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TorqTidal: Mitigating Torque Pulsations in Tidal Current Turbines |
Dr Jonathan Shek
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Energy Systems |
TorqTidal seeks to provide control strategies for tidal current turbines that will reduce the risk of failure and increase the lifetime of device components without increasing capital costs. This will act to increase investor confidence and drive down the LCOE, which is a key step in helping the UK to exploit its significant tidal energy resource.
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ThermaSMART |
Dr Prashant Valluri
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Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, Materials and Processes, Multiscale Thermofluids |
Project ThermaSMART is an international and intersectoral network of organisations working on a joint research programme in the area of phase-change cooling of high-power electronic devices.
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