Energy AwayDay 2012 Event
- Time:
- 10:00 - 16:00
- Date:
- 22 May 2012
- Venue:
- Chilworth Manor
For more information regarding this event, please email Frances Clarke at fmc@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Presentations and discussion networking groups addressed global Energy problems at the Energy USRG AwayDay at Chilworth Manor.
All the presentations that have been submitted are below in the order they appeared on the day.
The list of abstracts is available as a useful download - see right.
Session One: Bioenergy, transport, carbon capture and sequestration - Chaired by Professor AbuBakr Bahaj
1. 'Acoustic detection of undersea gas reserves and leaks', T. Leighton, B. Berges and P.R. White
2. 'Plug and play photosynthesis: understanding the cyanobacterial extracellular electrogenic pathway', A. Hitchcock and T. Bibby
3. 'Improving the photosynthetis effieciency of microalgae using high throughput screening and next generation sequencing', A. Johansson, M. Moore, T. Bibby, R. Edwards and M. Terry
4. 'Engineering active sites for susainable catalysis', R. Raja
5. 'Sustainable catalysis for renewable energy generation', C. Hinde
6. 'Plasma processing of biofuels', S. Gabriel
7. 'EuroChar - A new FP7 project: development of technologies for long-term carbon sequestration', M. Viger
8. 'How sustainable are fossil fuels?', K. Luo
9. 'GHG balance and and carbon mitigation potential of bioenergy crops', Z. Harris
10. 'Secondary data analysis and travel demand', E. Wilson
11. 'Sixth sense transport: new visualisations of transport options using locative media, social networks and tagging technology', T. Cherrett
Session 2: Generation, transmission, demand - Chaired by Paul Lewin
12. 'Smart grids and complexity' J. Brodzski
13. 'PSRC Hubnet:defining the future research roadmap in electrical networks' P. Lewin
14. EPSRC energy grand challenge: electricity networks' S. Swingler
15. 'Improving the operational performance of National Grid's cable networks' J. Pilgrim
16. 'Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for Artificial Inelligence (and the A/C group)' G. Ramchurn
17. Elecrical performance of dialectrics in high voltage transformers' G. Chen
18. 'An efficient inflow generation for large-eddy simulation of wind turbine flows' Z. Xie
19. 'Advanced modelling for turbulent combustion' E. Richardson
20. 'Low carbon practices (TSRC)//distribution of household emissions (ESRC)' M. Buchs
21. 'FigureEnergy:annotating and visualizing electriciy consumption' E. Costanza
22. 'Energy and communities: the role of community-based initiatives in energy saving' R. Wallbridge
Session 3: ECRs Chaired by Robert Raja
23. 'Holistic energy harvesting' A. Weddell
25. 'More efficient bioethanol from poplar wood?' A. Payne
26. 'FP7 ANASTASIA: next generation insulation systems for large generators/motors' N. Freebody
27.'Introducing carbon capture and sequestration to the University of Southampton' L. Armstrong
The Energy AwayDay was exactly the kind of event we need to generate new collaborations across the whole spectrum of Energy Research at Southampton