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  • Nanostructured Copper Sulfide Alloys for Solar Energy Conversion

    assignment_turned_inProject2010 - 2014Partners:UCSC
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1006190
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  • DEEPWIND (Future Deep Sea Wind Turbine Technologies)

    image/svg+xml art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos Open Access logo, converted into svg, designed by PLoS. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos http://www.plos.org/ Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_inProject2010 - 2014Partners:University of Trento, MARIN, NENUPHAR SARL, ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC, DHI +14 partners
    Funder: European Commission Project Code: 256769
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  • Variable Pitch Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:Vertogen Ltd., VERTOGEN LIMITED
    Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: 700401
    Funder Contribution: 23,122 GBP

    Small scale horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT) and vertical access wind turbines (VAWT) are unable to handle high winds or turbulent conditions. At very high wind speeds wind turbines shut down. Existing designs focus on external mechanical and electrical systems to reduce the output rather than exploit the attributes of low and high wind conditions. Turbines with static blades cannot effectively capture the direct wind energy for all the blades. Existing designs rely on a small proportion of the total blade area and typically feature a symmetrical profile (equal profile each side). Existing vertical axis machines have an inherent inefficiency because while one blade is working well with the wind, other blades are effectively pulling in the wrong direction – causing them to behave as a brake. Vertogen Ltd have identified a gap in the market for a variable pitch VAWT.

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  • SBIR Phase I: Compact Torus-Shaped Organic Ranking Cycle for Distributed Solar Thermal Power Generation

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:Air Squared Inc., Air Squared Inc.
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1346122
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  • All Inorganic Plasmon-Enhanced Photovoltaics with Eutectic Composition

    assignment_turned_inProject2011 - 2014Partners:University of Michigan Ann Arbor
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1066447
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  • Non-contact measurement of high voltage from power lines.

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:TCD
    Funder: Science Foundation Ireland Project Code: 13/TIDA/I2732
    Funder Contribution: 124,659 EUR
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  • Reliawind Condition Monitoring for Offshore Wind Turbines

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:Reliawind Limited, RELIAWIND LIMITED
    Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: 751217
    Funder Contribution: 5,000 GBP

    Reliability is vital in the growth of the wind industry, especially offshore, and to realise the UK's targets for 2020. The global wind industry with 285,000 MW of wind power installation, of which 4,600 MW is offshore, spent over £3.3 billion for the maintenance and repair of wind turbines in 2011. A recent study by EPRI shows that a cost reduction of 47%, equivalent to £385,000 over a 20-year lifetime of a 3 MW onshore turbine, can be achieved by using predictive maintenance practices based on condition monitoring systems (CMS). Reliawind has developed a unique CMS technology with substantially enhanced precision and wider range of fault prediction. Its unique feature is the use of electrical data, already available in the wind turbine controller, analysed by an advanced model-based self-learning algorithm to detect mechanical and electrical faults in the wind turbine drivetrain.

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  • Collaborative Research: Exploration of Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion for Efficient Thermal Energy Recycling

    assignment_turned_inProject2012 - 2014Partners:URI
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1236239
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  • Enhanced solar energy harvesting in dye sensitized solar cells using nanophosphors and nano-structured optics (CONVERTED)

    assignment_turned_inProject2011 - 2014Partners:Brunel University, Brunel University London, Brunel University London
    Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: EP/J50015X/1
    Funder Contribution: 390,995 GBP

    Over the last 20 years, photovoltaic solar cells (PV) for power generation have spawned an industry that focuses on continuously improving materials to use the solar energy that is available more efficiently. With efficiencies approaching 12%, huge effort has been focused onto improving efficiency by using multi-layer materials, profiled surfaces, thin film technologies etc due to the huge positive impact they have on the carbon economy. On a recently completed TSB programme, CONVERT (TSB ref. AE100D), two of the partners of the present consortium (the Wolfson Centre at Brunel University and Intrinsiq Materials Ltd) developed long-life down-converting phosphors that, once proven by scaling up in demonstrators, will be used worldwide in coatings and on cells to transfer more of the sun's energy into preferred PV frequencies. In this project we will scale up DSSCs to show the effect of augmenting the natural energy available and hence enhance energy output. In addition, we will harvest the light from a third of G24i's current cell's surface that is wasted and redirect the light to the active regions of the cell, thereby aiming to achieve performance gains of ca. 25%.

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  • Addressing the water-energy nexus in developing countries - a remote sensing feasibility assessment of in-line hydropower in Nepal

    assignment_turned_inProject2013 - 2014Partners:Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California at Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California at Berkeley
    Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Project Code: PBSKP2_145827
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  • Nanostructured Copper Sulfide Alloys for Solar Energy Conversion

    assignment_turned_inProject2010 - 2014Partners:UCSC
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1006190
    more_vert

  • DEEPWIND (Future Deep Sea Wind Turbine Technologies)

    image/svg+xml art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos Open Access logo, converted into svg, designed by PLoS. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos http://www.plos.org/ Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_inProject2010 - 2014Partners:University of Trento, MARIN, NENUPHAR SARL, ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC, DHI +14 partners
    Funder: European Commission Project Code: 256769
    more_vert

  • Variable Pitch Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:Vertogen Ltd., VERTOGEN LIMITED
    Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: 700401
    Funder Contribution: 23,122 GBP

    Small scale horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT) and vertical access wind turbines (VAWT) are unable to handle high winds or turbulent conditions. At very high wind speeds wind turbines shut down. Existing designs focus on external mechanical and electrical systems to reduce the output rather than exploit the attributes of low and high wind conditions. Turbines with static blades cannot effectively capture the direct wind energy for all the blades. Existing designs rely on a small proportion of the total blade area and typically feature a symmetrical profile (equal profile each side). Existing vertical axis machines have an inherent inefficiency because while one blade is working well with the wind, other blades are effectively pulling in the wrong direction – causing them to behave as a brake. Vertogen Ltd have identified a gap in the market for a variable pitch VAWT.

    more_vert

  • SBIR Phase I: Compact Torus-Shaped Organic Ranking Cycle for Distributed Solar Thermal Power Generation

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:Air Squared Inc., Air Squared Inc.
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1346122
    more_vert

  • All Inorganic Plasmon-Enhanced Photovoltaics with Eutectic Composition

    assignment_turned_inProject2011 - 2014Partners:University of Michigan Ann Arbor
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1066447
    more_vert

  • Non-contact measurement of high voltage from power lines.

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:TCD
    Funder: Science Foundation Ireland Project Code: 13/TIDA/I2732
    Funder Contribution: 124,659 EUR
    more_vert

  • Reliawind Condition Monitoring for Offshore Wind Turbines

    assignment_turned_inProject2014 - 2014Partners:Reliawind Limited, RELIAWIND LIMITED
    Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: 751217
    Funder Contribution: 5,000 GBP

    Reliability is vital in the growth of the wind industry, especially offshore, and to realise the UK's targets for 2020. The global wind industry with 285,000 MW of wind power installation, of which 4,600 MW is offshore, spent over £3.3 billion for the maintenance and repair of wind turbines in 2011. A recent study by EPRI shows that a cost reduction of 47%, equivalent to £385,000 over a 20-year lifetime of a 3 MW onshore turbine, can be achieved by using predictive maintenance practices based on condition monitoring systems (CMS). Reliawind has developed a unique CMS technology with substantially enhanced precision and wider range of fault prediction. Its unique feature is the use of electrical data, already available in the wind turbine controller, analysed by an advanced model-based self-learning algorithm to detect mechanical and electrical faults in the wind turbine drivetrain.

    more_vert

  • Collaborative Research: Exploration of Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion for Efficient Thermal Energy Recycling

    assignment_turned_inProject2012 - 2014Partners:URI
    Funder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 1236239
    more_vert

  • Enhanced solar energy harvesting in dye sensitized solar cells using nanophosphors and nano-structured optics (CONVERTED)

    assignment_turned_inProject2011 - 2014Partners:Brunel University, Brunel University London, Brunel University London
    Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: EP/J50015X/1
    Funder Contribution: 390,995 GBP

    Over the last 20 years, photovoltaic solar cells (PV) for power generation have spawned an industry that focuses on continuously improving materials to use the solar energy that is available more efficiently. With efficiencies approaching 12%, huge effort has been focused onto improving efficiency by using multi-layer materials, profiled surfaces, thin film technologies etc due to the huge positive impact they have on the carbon economy. On a recently completed TSB programme, CONVERT (TSB ref. AE100D), two of the partners of the present consortium (the Wolfson Centre at Brunel University and Intrinsiq Materials Ltd) developed long-life down-converting phosphors that, once proven by scaling up in demonstrators, will be used worldwide in coatings and on cells to transfer more of the sun's energy into preferred PV frequencies. In this project we will scale up DSSCs to show the effect of augmenting the natural energy available and hence enhance energy output. In addition, we will harvest the light from a third of G24i's current cell's surface that is wasted and redirect the light to the active regions of the cell, thereby aiming to achieve performance gains of ca. 25%.

    more_vert

  • Addressing the water-energy nexus in developing countries - a remote sensing feasibility assessment of in-line hydropower in Nepal

    assignment_turned_inProject2013 - 2014Partners:Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California at Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California at Berkeley
    Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Project Code: PBSKP2_145827
    more_vert
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