Centre for Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy Generation

可再生能源发电先进材料中心

• 批准号: EP/P007805/1
• 负责人: Robin Wallace
• 金额: $ 259.61万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP007805%2F1
• 关键词: Centre; Advanced; Materials; Renewable; Energy

Renewable and low carbon energy sources need to be more competitive if the world is to meet the carbon emissions targets agreed in COP21. CAMREG brings together cutting edge materials researchers who will work across discipline boundaries to increase renewable energy technology durability, reliability, utility, performance and energy yield. The aim of the Centre is to combine activity, know-how and facilities from a wide range of existing fundamental and applied materials science capacity to address the known and emerging challenges in renewable energy generation, including on- and off-shore wind, wave, tidal, conventional and next-generation solar photovoltaics and energy storage. CAMREG will support and hasten the establishment or expansion of viable and sustainable renewable energy industries in the UK. The proposed centre offers a wide breadth and considerable depth of materials research capability and capacity in many areas of renewable energy and is aimed at reducing the overall levelised cost of energy to the consumer. The centre addresses 4 of the suggested areas in the Call in the following 3 themes: multifunctional materials for energy applications; materials for energy conversion & storage and smart materials for energy applications. Research areas include: efficient materials for PV and energy storage; materials for increased power density in electrical generators; improved design and testing of composite blades for wind and tidal turbines; smart materials and optical coatings that detect early damage in wind blades; smart coatings to minimise erosion and corrosion on blades and offshore support towers; lighter-weight design of structural steels; large-scale structural testing of components; better materials fatigue and failure management; lower-maintenance materials with improved resistance to wear and corrosion; superconducting materials to transfer power over long distances with less losses; high temperature ceramics and molten salt for energy storage; electrically responsive artificial muscles that can morph the shapes of wind turbine blades to ensure better energy yields, materials for increased conversion efficiency and better mooring for wave and tidal devices.CAMREG is a partnership of 3 research-intensive universities, Edinburgh, Cranfield and Strathclyde, which would gather and network the interests, capacity and networks of many of the RCUK investments in energy research and training, and accruing over 200 industry connections: through 3 SuperGen Hubs, Marine UKCMER, Wind and Power Networks; 4 EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training - Wind Energy Systems, Wind & Marine Energy Systems, Offshore Renewable Energy Marine Structures and Integrative Sensing and Measurement; the EPSRC Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy and the DECC SLIC (Offshore Wind Structural Lifecycle) Joint Industry Project - the largest industry-funded offshore renewables related materials and structures research project worldwide, involving Certification Authorities (DNV-GL and LR) and 10 of Europe's largest energy utility companies. The Centre will also respond to the needs and experience of device developers, project planners, legislators and consenting bodies, and academic partners will continue to work closely with key UK policy stakeholders.CAMREG underpins the efforts at existing recognised centres of renewable energy and materials science research, and encourages networking with new research groups working in complementary areas and linking centres into a coordinated national network. Expected national impacts include: environmental benefits, through increasing the potential to displace fossil fuels; economic benefit through the expansion of employment and human capacity transfer from the existing offshore energy industries; increased diversity, security and resilience of electricity supply through reduction in dependence upon imported fuel and as indigenous coal oil and gas production declines.

如果世界要实现第21届联合国气候变化大会商定的碳排放目标，可再生能源和低碳能源需要更具竞争力。CAMREG汇集了最前沿的材料研究人员，他们将跨越学科界限，提高可再生能源技术的耐用性、可靠性、实用性、性能和能源产量。该中心的目标是将现有基础和应用材料科学能力的活动，专业知识和设施结合起来，以解决可再生能源发电中已知的和新出现的挑战，包括陆上和海上风能，波浪，潮汐，传统和下一代太阳能光伏发电和能源储存。CAMREG将支持和加速在英国建立或扩大可行和可持续的可再生能源产业。拟议的中心在可再生能源的许多领域提供广泛和相当深入的材料研究能力和能力，旨在降低消费者的整体能源成本。该中心在以下3个主题中处理呼吁中建议的4个领域：能源应用的多功能材料；能源转换和储存材料和能源应用的智能材料。研究领域包括：光伏和储能高效材料；增加发电机功率密度的材料；风力和潮汐涡轮机复合叶片的改进设计和试验智能材料和光学涂层可检测风机叶片的早期损坏；智能涂层，最大限度地减少叶片和海上支撑塔的侵蚀和腐蚀；结构钢轻量化设计；大型构件结构试验；更好的材料疲劳和失效管理；低维护材料，提高耐磨损和耐腐蚀性能；用超导材料远距离传输电能，损耗更小；用于储能的高温陶瓷和熔盐；可以改变风力涡轮机叶片形状的电反应人造肌肉，以确保更好的能量产出，提高转换效率的材料，以及更好的波浪和潮汐装置系泊。CAMREG是爱丁堡、克兰菲尔德和斯特拉斯克莱德三所研究密集型大学的合作伙伴关系，它将聚集和网络RCUK在能源研究和培训方面的许多投资的兴趣、能力和网络，并积累200多个行业联系：通过3个超级发电中心、海洋UKCMER、风能和电力网络；4个EPSRC博士培训中心-风能系统，风能和海洋能源系统，海上可再生能源海洋结构和综合传感与测量；EPSRC海上可再生能源工业博士中心和DECC SLIC（海上风电结构生命周期）联合产业项目——全球最大的行业资助的海上可再生能源相关材料和结构研究项目，涉及认证机构（DNV-GL和LR）和10家欧洲最大的能源公用事业公司。该中心还将响应设备开发商、项目规划者、立法者和同意机构的需求和经验，学术合作伙伴将继续与英国主要政策利益相关者密切合作。CAMREG支持现有的公认的可再生能源和材料科学研究中心的努力，并鼓励与在互补领域工作的新研究小组建立联系，并将中心连接到一个协调的国家网络中。预期的国家影响包括：通过增加取代化石燃料的潜力而带来的环境效益；经济效益通过扩大就业和人力能力转移从现有的海上能源产业；通过减少对进口燃料的依赖以及本土煤炭、石油和天然气产量的下降，增加电力供应的多样性、安全性和弹性。

项目成果

Analysis of radiation pressure and aerodynamic forces acting on powder grains in powder-based additive manufacturing

• DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2020.04.031
• 发表时间: 2020-05
• 期刊: Powder Technology
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: S. Haeri;S. Haeri;Jack Hanson;S. Lotfian

Photon upconversion through triplet exciton-mediated energy relay.

通过三重态激子介导的能量中继进行光子上转换。

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.69348
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Han S

Ultra-thin electrospun nanofibers for development of damage-tolerant composite laminates

• DOI: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2019.100202
• 发表时间: 2019-12-01
• 期刊: MATERIALS TODAY CHEMISTRY
• 影响因子: 7.3
• 作者: An, D.;Lotfian, S.;Nezhad, H. Yazdani
• 通讯作者: Nezhad, H. Yazdani

Finite Element Analysis of Tidal Turbine Blade Subjected to Impact Loads from Sea Animals

• DOI: 10.3390/en14217208
• 发表时间: 2021-11
• 期刊: Energies
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Ilias Gavriilidis;Yuner Huang

A Low Cost Oscillating Membrane for Underwater Applications at Low Reynolds Numbers

一种用于低雷诺数水下应用的低成本振荡膜

• DOI: 10.3390/jmse10010077
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Arredondo-Galeana A