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Research Themes
Solar, wind and biomass energy
The research covers solar, wind and biomass renewable energy systems and focuses on resource assessment and optimisation, components and systems, integration within the energy supply system, condition monitoring along with durability and long term performancesa.
Key projects:
- Lignocellulosic conversion to ethanol
- Second generation, sustainable, bacterial biofuels
- Mop fan and electrofilter: An innovative approach for cleaning product gases from biomass gasification
- Optimised Efficiency of Thin Film Photovoltaic Device
- Low cost integrated PV in double glazed windows using CdTe bifacial solar cells
- Low-cost Extremely Thinlayer Absorber (ETA) Solar Cell: A Novel approach to make the conformal ETA Layers
People:
- Professor Katherine Smart (University of Nottingham)
- Professor Nigel Minton (University of Nottingham)
- Professor Phil Eames (Loughborough University)
- Dr Simon Watson (Loughborough University)
- Dr Ralph Gottschalg (Loughborough University)
- Dr Hari M Upadhyaya (Loughborough University)
- Dr Upul Wijayantha (Loughborough University)
