British partners
the University of Glasgow | School of Engineering / Systems, Power and Energy Research Division
Speciality field:
- Identification, assessment and classification of resources and reserves
- Reservoir stimulation
- Unconventional Borehole heat exchanger designs (incl. single-well, closed-loop)
- Innovative ORCs
- Cogeneration and trigeneration
- Repurposing hydrocarbon wells
- Harnessing mine water
- Fluid flow, heat & mass transfer
- Ground source heat pump systems
- Geological thermal energy storage
- Groundwater quality and hydrochemistry
As the home institution of such global luminaries as Lord Kelvin, James Watt, W.J.M. Rankine and Joseph Black, our reputation in energy engineering science is long-standing and world-renowned. Currently partners in the DESTRESS and newly granted CROWDTHERMAL EU projects.
Currently leading [list is not exhaustive]: EPSRC (GCRF) Geothermally sourced combined power and freshwater generation for eastern Africa (Combi-Gen); Innovate UK (Newton Fund, China-UK Research and Innovation Bridges competition): An ORC power plant integrated with thermal energy storage to utilise renewable heat sources for distributed heating and power; EPSRC Thermally Driven Heat Pump Based on an Integrated Thermodynamic Cycle for Low Carbon Domestic Heating (Therma-Pump); EPSRC CESI Repurposing Hydrocarbon Wells for Geothermal Energy Production and Storage.
Website | Contact person | E-mail:https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/research/divisions/systems
Gioia Falcone | mgioia.falcone@glasgow.ac.uk