Decoupled Green Energy Supply

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage)

Applied Research and Development
Final stage Development and Demonstration

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Chemical Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D (Other Systems Analysis)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)

Project Contact
Siemens plc

Collaborative Research & Development

Innovate UK

01 January 2015

31 December 2018

48 months

£1,064,337

North East

Competition Call: 1401_CRD_SUST_LES - Localised energy systems. Activity Localised energy systems- a cross-sector approach

Project Contact, Siemens plc

Dr JA Halliday, Energy Research Unit, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council)
Professor SCE Tsang, Oxford Chemistry, University of Oxford
Dr A Valera-Medina, Engineering, Cardiff University

The project is focused on the use of ammonia as a carbon-free fuel, to fully decouple the supply and demand of electricity from fluctuating renewable energy sources. A small scale demonstrator will be designed and assembled, to evaluate the performance and scalability of a system that accepts intermittent energy and delivers reliable matched base load electricity to meet demand. The key components of this local configuration are an agile synthesis unit which produces ammonia, a generator and internal combustion engine, suitable to use the stored ammonia to generate electricity on demand.
Note : Investigator change made after start of project - University of Oxford has replaced University of Strathclyde - record updated accordingly 6/Aug/2015.

05/08/15