Energy Storage and its Applications

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The ground-breaking Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Storage and its Applications at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton opened in October 2014, funded by the EPSRC, to tackle industrial challenges and develop new technologies and skills that will enable the UK to meet its low carbon targets.

Published Papers

A simple, fast and accurate in-situ method to measure the rate of transport of redox species through membranes for lithium batteries. Nina Meddings, .John R.Owen, Nuria Garcia-Araez, Chemistry, University of Southampton. Aug2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.08.004

Comparative analysis of domestic and feeder connected batteries for low voltage networks with high photovoltaic penetration. George Hilton & Andrew Cruden, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, and Jeremy Kent, Swanbarton Limited, The Old Cake House, The Dairy Farm, Pinkney, Wiltshire SN16 0NX. July017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2017.07.019

Published Reports and Conference Presentations

Presentations at the 2nd Annual CDT Conference, 14th September 2017, University of Southampton

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Opening Keynote - Mike Woodcock, Advanced Propulsion Centre

'Batteries for Automotive and the Faraday Challenge'.

Dr. Ann Huang, University of Oxford

'Manufacture of structured electrodes for improved electrochemical energy storage'.

Professor Yulong Ding, University of Birmingham

Thermal Energy Storage'.

Professor Keith Pullen, City University of London

'Flywheel Energy Storage-A robust Solution for high power, high cycle applications'.

Richard Ollerenshaw, Siemens

'Further, Faster, Cheaper: Opportunities in Rail Electrification'.

James Dow, Centrica

"Energy Storage: An Industry Perspective".

Ken Hobbs, BAE Systems

'Modular Off Grid Power Solutions'.

Dr. Derek Craig, Portfolio Manager (Energy Storage), EPSRC

'Update regarding the future strategy concerning energy storage projects'.

Closing Keynote - Dr. Chris Jones, University of Surrey

'The fate of energy storage technologies: why we should care what publics think'.

3 minute thesis - Alex Holland

'Developing an aqueous aluminium-ion battery'.

3 minute thesis - Andreas Georgakarakos

'Energy Storage characteristics of smart grid optimised buildings'.

3 minute thesis - Connor Smyth

 'Silicon and graphene composites for next generation nano-structured battery design'.

3 minute thesis - Daniel Wright

 'High temperature secondary Lithium-ion Batteries Operating between 25C and 150C'.

3 minute thesis - George Hilton

 'Powering High rate EV chargers with renewable energy utilising energy storage'.

3 minute thesis - Ian Brocklebank

'Building a model to assess the feasibility of rural UK district heating networks'.

3 minute thesis - James Moore

'Modelling phase change materials for high density heat storage in homes'.

3 minute thesis - Nina Meddings

 'Characterising lithium protective membranes, coatings and solid electrolytes for high energy density batteries'.

3 minute thesis - Richard Johnson

 'Optimal placement and dispatch of Energy Storage systems for low voltage residential networks'.

3 minute thesis - Tom Bryden

'Off-vehicle energy store selection for a high rate EV charging station'.

3 minute thesis - Clive Shaw

'Development of battery recycling processes and life cycle analysis and its application to the aluminium-ion battery'.

3 minute thesis - Fred Vellacott

'Energy Storage for electric rail'.

3 minute thesis - Hannes Krueger

'Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) communications and controls'.

3 minute thesis - Izgun Gunsal

 'Single-phase multilevel grid-tie converter for PV and battery energy storage'.

3 minute thesis - Laura Wheatcroft

'Microstructural evolution of lithium ion battery electrodes'.

3 minute thesis - Laurie Middlemiss

'Sodium-ion batteries and their performance optimisation'.

3 minute thesis - Luke Price

'Direct Attachment of CO2 reduction catalysts containing bipyridine ligands of semiconducting surfaces'.

3 minute thesis - Peter Bugryniec

'Modelling and Simulation of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries'.

3 minute thesis - Siyuan (Michael) Dong

'Domestic battery storage with distributed generation'.

3 minute thesis - Susan Sun

 'Interplay between Economic and Environmental Objectives for Renewable Energy Co-located Storage Systems'.

Posters at the 2nd Annual CDT conference, 14th September 2017, University of Southampton

All 32 (cohorts 1, 2 and 3) CDT students and several guest PGR students displayed their energy storage research posters at the conference. The posters can be viewed here.

 CDT Conference Sep.2016

Presentation videos (Industrial Board)

Slide decks (Industrial Board)

General Energy Storage Reports