Decentralised water technologies

Started

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Not Energy Related
Other Power and Storage Technologies
Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

AREA STUDIES
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Biological Sciences)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance)
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Dr WT Sloan
Civil Engineering
University of Glasgow

Standard

EPSRC

01 July 2021

31 December 2026

66 months

£5,994,286

Civil eng. & built environment

Scotland

NC : Engineering

Dr WT Sloan, Civil Engineering, University of Glasgow

Dr JM Amezaga, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University
Dr A Clark, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow
Dr S Connelly, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow
Dr A Correia Semiao, Sch of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh
Dr R Ford, Politics, University of Strathclyde
Dr C Gauchotte-Lindsay, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow
Dr U Ijaz, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow
Dr J Robbie, School of Law, University of Glasgow
Dr J Roberts, Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor C Smith, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow
Dr S You, College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow
Dr Z Yu, Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow

Project Contact, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
Project Contact, Barra and Vatersay Community
Project Contact, Asian Institute of Technology
Project Contact, Drinking Water Quality Regulator
Project Contact, Jura Development Trust
Project Contact, University of Victoria
Project Contact, Scottish Water
Project Contact, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
Project Contact, Arran Eco Savvy
Project Contact, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

This Programme Grant will accelerate the delivery of decentralised water technologies by bringing the most up-to-date bioscience and energy engineering to bear. It will re-write emerging design rules for engineering biology to ensure that off-grid environmental biotechnologies can be configured with confidence. Bespoke microbial treatment communities will be evolved using a new suite of high-throughput synthetic-biology inspired, experimental platforms. For rural populations and UK Islands and in the developing world, from sub-urban Bangkok to the Amazon and Arctic Canada, we will develop site-specific off-grid integrated heat/water technologies. We will develop low-cost sensors, real-time monitoring and adaptive control for remote distributed water infrastructure. With water technology companies, we will analyse how suites of technologies can be configured and controlled to shape new models for decentralised provision. Scottish Water will invest significantly in co-creating rural demonstrators and a mobile technology-demonstration platform for sustainable communities and with Northumbrian, Welsh Water and other utilities and stakeholders we will build momentum for a radically new low-carbon decentralised future for the water industry. Working with stakeholders, from communities to legislators, we seek to incentivise community-led infrastructure solutions and to modify regulation in ways that balance local stakeholder needs and global goals for decarbonising infrastructure. Working with professional bodies and innovation centres we will create a global centre of excellence in off-grid water provision, with the drive and passion to deliver transformational change; helping to deliver 2050 net-zero carbon and Sustainable Development Goal 6

28/10/21