Control For Energy and Sustainability

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Not Energy Related
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor RB Vinter
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College London

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2009

31 March 2015

66 months

£5,536,495

Systems engineering

London

Energy : Engineering

Professor RB Vinter, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London

Professor A Astolfi, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor K Glover, Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr J Goncalves, Engineering, University of Cambridge
Professor T Green, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor DJN Limebeer, Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Professor J Maciejowski, Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr B Pal, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor MC Smith, Engineering, University of Cambridge
Professor G Strbac, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Dr G Vinnicombe, Engineering, University of Cambridge

Control engineering is concerned with the design of control systems (controllers) that can improve the performance of all dynamic processes. Relevant examples include the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from internal combustion engines and power plant, the reduction of pollutants generated by chemical plants, and improvements in a power system's ability to respond to random load and/or supply variations. New technologies for clean electricity generation, fuel efficient transport, andenvironmentally friendly waste disposal will all depend on a new generation of special-purpose control systems. Current research trends in control engineering, which address complexity and uncertainty, have a great, and as yet unrealised potential to contribute to these technologies.The aim of this research programme is to develop new control engineering techniques which can be applied to a number of energy and sustainability related problems in order to achieve significantadvances in the exploitation of renewable energy and vehicle fuel efficiency. The clean energy aspect of the programme will address major challenges arising from distributed renewable generation, taking account of the integration of wind power into a network, transmission, local network control, and random intermittency of supply. In transport, our goals are to develop new technologies for a future generation of fuel efficient road vehicles (focusing attention on engine management, and aerodynamic and vehicle design optimisation) and to devise new air traffic management schemes to reduce fuel consumption of aircraft resulting from air traffic congestion

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