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Energy Technologies

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 Bio and Chemical Energy Group          
  • Production systems (blue and green H2, PtL, SAF, Biodiesels)
  • Delivery systems and safety - land, sea, air
  • Storage systems
  • Derivatives: Ammonia / Methanol / ++
  • Fuel Cell applications
 
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 Power Technologies Group            
  • Grid Technologies
  • Electrode materials and morphology, membrane technology
  • Chemical storage for long term / inter-seasonal VRE
  • Alternative battery technologies:
    • REDOX
    • Aluminum-Air
  • Fuel Cells… electrode and membrane materials, small Soild Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), lower temperature SOFC
 
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 Renewable Energy Group        
  • Next generation substrates: Multi-Junction and Perovskites
  • Low/zero water cleaning systems
  • Thermal energy capture from panels
  • Floating solar: cooling and evaporation reduction
  • Low energy tracking systems (>by 25-40%)
  • Solar project modelling and prediction
  • Low speed wind and vertical axis wind technologies
 
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 Energy Modelling Group        
  • Climate change impact – CO2, NOx, CH4
  • System / Grid Design and Optimization
    • Decision frameworks, Scenario modelling, Optimisation
    • Generative design
    • Prediction & Control (Traditional and AI based - minute, hour, day, month)
    • Building Management Systems
  • Technology modelling
    • Core Performance
    • Site specific performance
    • Specification testing / setting

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Water Technologies

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 Production
  • Renewable powered desalination – thermal and Reverse Osmosis
  • Improved membrane technologies
  • Filtration pretreatments – e.g. Ceramic Nanofiltration
 
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 Distribution
  • Network leak detection and remediation technologies
 
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 Utilization
  • Technologies to deliver exactly the right amount of water to exactly the right place
 
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 Treatment
  • Technologies to remove valuable metals from brine
  • Crystallization technologies to reduce / eliminate brine
  • Alternative uses for brine (Solids additives, Steel industry)
  • Value generating uses of sewage sludge – Waste to energy

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Water-Energy-Biology Nexus

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 Sustainable, Optimized Agri/Aquaculture   
  • Vertical and controlled environment farming
  • Water delivery systems
  • Optimizing water quantity per crop and soil
  • Agri-photovoltaics
  • Soil enhancements for reduced water
  • Delivery systems for soil fertility enhancement
  • Aquaculture systems