Tag Combustion

Innovate UK grant to boost engineering industry sustainability

Professor Crua will be part of £1.35 million consortium project investigating Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) in precision manufacturing, which is being funded by Innovate UK. Many UK businesses continue to rely on ageing machinery that uses an excess of costly, environmentally… Continue Reading →

Dr. Begg featured in ASEE Prism new article on latest ICE trends

Dr. Begg, co-Director of the AEC, has been interviewed to be part of the latest article on ASEE Prism, regarding the latest trend on ICE. Prism is American Society of Engineering Education’s (ASEE) award winning flagship publication and the most… Continue Reading →

Progress in Prediction of Pre-Combustion Processes

A new work generated from collaboration of our Prof Sergei Sazhin with Alexandria University (Egypt), Coventry University (UK), Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company), Arab Academy for Science (Egypt),  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology… Continue Reading →

More progress published on the AEC’s only Split Cycle Engine

The Split Cycle Engine, flagship of the AEC, is a novel engine architecture where the phases of expansion and compression happen in two separate cylinders. It was reported that the engine can realistically approach brake efficiencies of 60%, which represents… Continue Reading →

Next-Generation Drills to help source sustainable geothermal energy. 

An exciting new collaboration between AEC, GA Drilling, Advanced Analysis and  MTech-UK Associates, funded by Innovate UK, will be looking at next-generation drills that can help to source sustainable geothermal energy. The aim of the project is to offer an… Continue Reading →

New Book from Prof. Sazhin on the modelling of Vortex Rings

Prof. Sergei Sazhin recently added a new book to his long list of publications, along with co-Authors Ionut Danaila, Université de Rouen and Felix Kaplanski, Tallinn University of Technology, . Vortex Ring Models, (Springer) represents the “first systematic mathematical descriptions of… Continue Reading →

Prof Morgan awarded grant in APC’s Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator (ARMD) Competition

Prof Robert Morgan has been awarded a project through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) ARMED program, of which the AEC is an APC Spoke. This is a short project of 7 months but will be employing 10 UoB staff members… Continue Reading →

Dr. Begg makes new business agreement on desulphurization catalyst technology

On November 17, 2020,  a feasibility study investigating desulfurization catalyst technology for the European shopping market was formally kicked off.  The collaboration between LowCarbon Co., Ltd. and Coventry University and Brighton University in the UK, Jeollanam-do Province, and Gwangyang City… Continue Reading →

Dr. Begg selected as Guest Editor for the MDPI Journal “Fuels”

Dr. Steven Begg, Reader, has been selected as Guest Editor for the new MDPI Open Access Journal “Fuels”, together with Dr. Nwabueze Emekwuru, from Coventry University. This Special Issue will focus on recent advances and new interventions in propulsion and… Continue Reading →

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