Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies
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The Challenges
Efficient and sustainable energy development is an ever-present need in the modern world. The need to reduce waste energy in a cost-effective manner, whilst keeping convenience, is a driving force in the work of our STET group.
Our Research
The group works with organisations such as The British Antarctic Society, CK Solar and Eon to tackle a wide-range of sustainability issues. The primary areas of research are:
- Heat Pumps and Refrigeration
- Solar Energy
- Thermal Energy Storage
Staff are involved in the Birmingham Science City Research Alliance
and in delivering the thermal energy technology part of the Science City Energy Efficiency Project. Our facilities include refurbished laboratory space with some of the latest analytical and test equipment.
Projects
- EPSRC have funded an Interdisciplinary Centre for Storage, Transformation and Upgrading of Thermal Energy (i-STUTE), with an award of over £5 millon for 5 years, creating PhD and postdoctoral opportunities.
- High Performance Vacuum Flat Plate Solar Thermal Collectors for Hot Water and Process Heat (EPSRC).
- 4S-DHW (Small Smart Sustainable Systems for future Domestic Hot Water) (EPSRC)
- IDRIST (Industrial Demand Reduction through Innovative Storage Technologies) (EPSRC)
- ThermExS Lab (EPSRC)
| The Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies group is part of the Mechanical and Process Stream |