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ThermaPower - Thermal Management of High Power Microsystems Using Multiphase Flows |
Professor Khellil Sefiane
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Multiscale Thermofluids |
Increased functionality and power consumption of microdevices and high power electronics has come at a cost: power dissipation and heating. This heat must be dissipated to ensure reliable operation of such devices in both earthly and reduced gravity environments (eg space industry), without adversely affecting their performance. With a highly competitive world market, worth tens of billions of Euros, it is imperative for EU to gain a competitive position in this field (currently led by USA and China).
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Pressure-Tuning Interactions in Molecule-Based Magnets |
Professor Konstantin Kamenev
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Materials and Processes |
In optimizing the properties of functional materials it is essential to understand in detail how structure influences properties. Identification of the most important structural parameters is time-consuming and usually investigated by preparing many different chemical modifications of a material, determining their crystal structures, measuring their physical properties and then looking for structure-property correlations. It is also necessary to assume that the chemical modifications have no influence other than to distort the structure, which is often not the case.
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Challenging RISK: Achieving Resilience by Integrating Societal and Technical Knowledge |
Professor Luke Bisby
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Infrastructure and Environment |
This project is concerned with socially integrated mitigation of multiple structural risks in the urban environment, with a focus on the linked risks of earthquake and fire. Fire is the largest contributor to building damage following earthquakes. To date, this research area has largely been ignored as it crosses the boundaries between the knowledge areas of earthquake and fire safety engineering. The combination of factors adds to the challenges in risk estimation already existing in each distinct area. There is currently no universally accepted method for accounting for the effect of strengthening practices on building vulnerability to earthquakes (let alone earthquakes followed by fire). In the case of fire safety engineering, few credible techniques for damage estimation or risk-based design currently exist due to a lack of requisite input data. This project will develop, through large scale structural testing and computational analysis, new technical engineering solutions to these problems. And, for the first time, these technical engineering solutions will be developed explicitly accounting for the social context within which they are to be enacted.
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Mixed Matrix Membranes for post combustion carbon capture of CO2 |
Dr Maria-Chiara Ferrari
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Materials and Processes |
Membrane processes are a promising alternative to the more classical post-combustion capture technologies due to the reduced maintenance of the process, the absence of dangerous solvents and their smaller footprint. This project aims at supporting the development of new mixed matrix membranes for post-combustion applications. Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) are composite materials formed by embedding inorganic fillers into a polymeric matrix in order to overcome the upper bound and combine the characteristics of the two solid phases: mechanical properties, economical processing capabilities and permeability of the polymer and selectivity of the filler. Despite several studies on the concept, the interactions between the two phases and their effect on the transport properties are not well understood. Yet, this fundamental knowledge is crucial in order to design the reliable materials needed for real-world-applications.
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Educational & Training System for Clean Coal Technology |
Dr Maria-Chiara Ferrari
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Materials and Processes |
The general objective of CleanCOALtech project is: to create and develop an educational and training system for promoting, developing and implementing clean coal technologies, through knowledge and best practices shared from advanced EU country – UK to South-East European region – Romania and Greece in order to provide high performance and innovation in the vocational education and training systems and to raise stakeholders level of knowledge and skills.
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Direct Drive Generator for a Tidal Turbine |
Professor Markus Mueller
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Energy Systems |
Nova Innovation and IES are collaborating to design, build and test a direct drive generator for Nova’s tidal current turbine.
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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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MacSeNet: Machine Sensing Training Network |
Professor Mike Davies
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Imaging, Data and Communications |
The aim of this Innovative Training Network is to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early stage researchers (ESRs) in the research area of measurement and estimation of signals using knowledge or data about the underlying structure.
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Signal Processing for a Networked Battlespace |
Professor Mike Davies
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Imaging, Data and Communications |
This research is carried out under the Unversity Defence Research Collaboration (UDRC) funded by the MOD and EPSRC.
The UDRC is a collaborative research project with the work being carried out by two Consortia. Edinburgh Consortium is made of the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and The Queen's University of Belfast. LSSCN Consortium is made up of Loughborough University, University of Surrey, University of Strathclyde, Cardiff University and Newcastle University.
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SpaRTaN: Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Training Network |
Professor Mike Davies
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Imaging, Data and Communications |
The aim of this Initial Training Network is to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers in sparse representations and compressed sensing, contributing to Europe’s leading role in scientific innovation.
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