Research Associate

2 weeks ago


Loughborough, United Kingdom Loughborough University Full time

Loughborough University’s Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), in collaboration with the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester and the British Geological Survey, has been awarded funding from the EPSRC to develop the next generation of compressed air energy storage systems (CAES). These systems, which can store upwards of 8 hours of energy storage at full capacity without the use of supplementary fossil fuel inputs, are a promising option for large-scale energy storage in future. However, removing the fossil fuels from the process necessitates highly reversible operation from the system, which in turn requires novel engineering designs. The aim of the work at Loughborough is to benchmark the performance of systems under both isochoric and isobaric operation modes through both simulation and experiment, as well as to outline preliminary designs for the thermal storage subcomponents.

Hence, the main research activities to be performed at CREST relate to i) the simulation of isochoric and isobaric compressed air energy storage across a range of scales, ii) experimental design and testing of a system to characterise the performance of isobaric and isochoric CAES operation at laboratory scale, iii) experimental design and optimisation of different heat input configurations and exploration of the tuneable thermal parameters within the system.

The project will comprise of a multi-disciplinary team of enthusiastic researchers working in CREST. As part of the project and the wider CREST environment, we will provide both training and mentoring opportunities to enable everyone in the team to unlock their fullest potential.

Please see this link for further details.



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