information session sam mccloskey, director case
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Information SessionSam McCloskey, Director CASE
Contents
1• Introductions
2• CASE Research Clusters
3• Companies
4• Typical Projects
6• Future Plans
An introduction to me……
Education / Qualifications• BSc Environmental Science (UUC)• MSc Agricultural Systems (Reading)• Chartered Environmentalist• Lead EMS Auditor, Principal Environmental AuditorWork History• Consultant for 17 years
– Regional Director at WYG – Environment, Health & Safety, Quality, Sustainability
• CASE since November 2011
A ‘potted’ history…..cont….
Skills / Example Projects
- Integrated Management Systems- Sustainability Assessments- Training – IEMA, IOSH accreditedVoluntary Positions• Vice Chair – Workspace Board of Directors• IEMA Regional Steering Group
Construction companies & quarries, Invest NI frameworks, B9, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust,
An Introduction to CASE
• £10M Centre for industry driven research• Potential £5M funding over 5 years from Invest NI• Additional leveraged funding• Up to 75% funding for collaborative research projects• Will fund research projects only• Aligns renewable energy expertise at QUB / UU /
AFBI with the research needs of participating companies
INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY UNIT
Environmental Monitoring
Water & WW Treatment
Waste & Remediation
Energy from Biomass Turbines Demand Side
Management
QUESTOR MANAGER CASE DIRECTOR
Governance / StructureOur Research Priorities
CASE STEERING GROUP
Demand Side Management
• Smart-grid challenges: Voltage control; Real and Reactive power control
• Generation: Device characteristics of emerging distributed generation (DG) technologies
• Storage technologies:“The maximum demand in the province is around 1,800MW, but on a summer night, it is around only 600MW. If
it is a windy summer night and there is 1,500/1,600 MW of wind, it cannot be used because there is nowhere for the power generated from it to go. (DETI Barriers report, quoting NIE)
Turbine Development, Manufacture & Decommissioning
• Wind, wave and tidal turbines • Improved design and manufacture:
whole life cycle, carbon footprint; use of composites - new materials, fibres, hybrids
• Resource and site characterisation: modelling & measurement
• Technology breakthroughs: blade technology/manufacture; materials; gear boxes; generator technology
Source: Marine Current Turbines
Energy from Biomass
• Solid biomass to energy via thermal routes: holistic approach from production to end-use ensuring consistent, high quality fuel; technology optimised for biomass resource.
• Anaerobic Digestion: evaluation of wastes, manures and energy crops including grass silage – a potential 200-300MWe; technology optimisation and efficiency improvement.
• Biogas upgrading & energy conversion:developments in upgrading and processing of biogas and the onward use of the biomethane in fuel cells or conversion to liquid biofuels.
Companies Already Engaged
Typical R&D Project – Triple T!
• 1/10th scale testing• Array – tidal turbines• Montgomery Lake & Strangford Lough• RPS, Pure Marine Gen, Sengenia, Creative Composites
& Oceanflow Energy• QUB – Professor Trevor Whittaker, Dr. Bjoern Elsaesser• £170,000 Grant for R&D – Invest NI• WORLD FIRST happening in Northern Ireland!