Multidisciplinary Underpinning Instrumentation investment

哈德斯菲尔德大学将用这笔资金资助购买3个关键的技术实验室设备，这些设备的使用和应用涵盖了广泛的研究领域，包括新型功能材料、先进计量和清洁生长。该设备将用于支持广泛的研究人员和学科，并有助于确保高利用率。申请人寻求购买(i)徕卡绝对跟踪仪ATS600，这是有史以来第一个便携式直接扫描激光跟踪仪，它可以在不需要传统反射光学的情况下测量大型结构的表面；（ii）热等静压机（HIP） AIP6-30H，通过操纵缺陷和微观结构来设计有弹性的下一代材料；（iii）利用生活废物生产清洁能源以供工业应用的热浓热裂解装置。徕卡跟踪器将促进多用户应用（例如，铁路，汽车，先进制造）中大型结构和工件的自由形状和微/纳米结构表面测量领域的科学和创新研究。例如，该设备将实现欧盟资助的由Network Rail领导的Shift2Rail In2Track2项目所需的绝对测量，从而消除目前在现有测量中遇到的校准问题。第二个仪器是热等静压机（HIP）系统，用于支持在材料设计和研究技术领域工作的研究人员，并针对EPSRC确定的关键优先研究领域提供研究，包括：材料表征，功能材料，测量和传感，光子材料，超材料和等离子体，集成技术（从移动技术到雷达技术）和ICT制造。从缺陷和微结构设计下一代材料的能力将为耐温度、耐缺陷和耐极端条件的材料的开发带来一个台阶的变化。HERU热解系统是首个此类示范系统，具有将日常生活垃圾转化为清洁可重复使用能源的能力。这将支持开发环境可持续的气体原料，为微型涡轮机提供燃料的关键研究；因此，为EPSRC的繁荣成果做出贡献，为一个富有生产力和弹性的国家做出贡献。这三种仪器将被用作一个平台，在哈德斯菲尔德大学各院系之间开展跨学科合作研究，并与外部合作者开展合作，为成熟的研究人员、早期职业研究人员和研究生提供支持。

The University of Huddersfield will use this award to fund the acquisition of 3 key pieces of technical laboratory equipment, whose use and application cover a broad range of research areas spanning novel functional materials, advanced metrology, and clean growth. The equipment will be used to support a broad range of researchers and disciplines, as well as help ensure high utilisation rates. The applicants seek to purchase (i) a Leica Absolute Tracker ATS600, the first ever portable direct scanning laser tracker, which can operate without the need for traditional reflective optics to measure the surfaces of large structures; (ii) a Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) AIP6-30H to design resilient next generation materials through the manipulation of defects and microstructures; and (iii) a HERU Pyrolysis Unit which generates clean energy from domestic waste for industrial applications.The Leica Tracker will facilitate scientific and innovative research in the area of freeform and micro/nano-structured surface measurement of large structures and artefacts in multiuser applications (e.g., rail, automotive, advanced manufacturing). For example, the device will enable absolute measurements required in the EU funded Shift2Rail In2Track2 project, led by Network Rail, thus eliminating alignment issues currently being experienced with existing measurements.The second instrument is a Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) System to support researchers working in the areas of materials design and investigation technologies and deliver research against key identified EPSRC Priority Research areas including: materials characterisation, functional materials, measurement and sensing, photonic materials, metamaterials and plasmonics, integrative technologies (from mobile technologies to radar technologies) and ICT for manufacturing. The ability to design next-generation materials from defects and microstructures will deliver a step change in the development of materials resistant to temperature, defects and extreme conditions. The HERU Pyrolysis System is a first of its kind demonstrator, with the capacity to valorise everyday domestic waste into clean reusable energy. This will underpin critical research into the development of environmentally sustainable gas feedstocks for fuelling micro-turbines; thus, contributing to EPSRC's prosperity outcomes for a productive and resilient nation.All three instruments will be used as a platform to develop interdisciplinary collaborative research across faculties at the University of Huddersfield and with external collaborators and to support established researchers as well as early career researchers and research students.