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AEC was present at NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel Spring meeting

Dr. Idil Fenercioglu Aydin  was appointed as a Technical Team Member at the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel Spring. Thanks to her experience on energy collection through wings, she was including in the section on “Large Amplitude Gust Mitigation Strategies… Continue Reading →

AEC starting project to make next generations wind farms more disaster-proof

Dr Alessandro Tombari is starting a project to design next-generation onshore and offshore wind farms to withstand damage from future climate change events. Dr Tombari is based in the University of Brighton’s Sustainability and Resilience Engineering Research and Enterprise Group,… Continue Reading →

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 Penny Atkins has published an agenda-setting report looking at the role hydrogen engines can play to slash carbon emissions in the road freight sector. Dr Atkins is Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton’s world-leading Advanced Engineering Centre, and a… Continue Reading →

New Battery Cooling method for EV developed with Loop Heat Pipes and Graphite

As part of AEC involvement on the road to zero-emission, a new thermal management system was developed in collaboration with Ricardo plc. Results have just been published in Applied Thermal Engineering (IF 4.475) in a paper entitled “Novel battery thermal… Continue Reading →

Progress on re-utilization of waste methane

Dr. Penny Atkins recently published in the journal Energies (IP 2.702) a very interesting work exploring the use of upcycled methane in transport in SE England, tapping into local waste sources of methane – such as farm silage, landfill and… Continue Reading →

ESA ENCOM Project to start its fourth iteration!

The ENCOM-4 (Enhanced CONdenser in Microgravity) research project is aimed at the experimental and numerical study of condensation and its applications in ground and space conditions. In this prestigious ESA project, the AEC is represented by Dr. Anastasios Georgoulas and… 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 →

Fourth SWEP Workshop coming to Brighton in Hybrid form!

The Advanced Engineering Centre is very proud to announce that the fourth iteration of the SWEP Workshop (Surface Wettability Effects on Phase Change Phenomena) will be held from the 6th- 8th of October 2021, at the The Grand Hotel in… Continue Reading →

New Publication on Pulsating Heat Pipe for Space Applications

Thanks to a recent collaboration with the Universities of Parma and Pisa, under the ESA MAP Project TOPDESS, a new publication was added to Prof Marengo‘s and the AEC already stellar list. The paper is entitled ” Thermal characterization of… Continue Reading →

MDPI Energies Prestigious Guest Editor positions for two members of the AEC!

Principal Lecturer and multi-phase flow modelling expert Dr. Anastasios Georgoulas and Director of the Advanced Engineering Centre Prof. Marco Marengo have both been recently appointed to editorial roles in the MDPI Open Access Journal Energies (IP 2.702). Prof. Marengo has… Continue Reading →

Dr. Aydin to study energy harvesting through delta wings in France-USA collaboration.

Dr. Idil Fenercioglu Aydin and co-investigator Dr. Agnieszka Kwiek are studying unsteady flow phenomena associated with delta wings with roll oscillations where the dominating vertical flows may support support energy harvesting in the low Reynolds number regime. The study focuses… Continue Reading →

Understanding Decarbonised Transport in 2050 report published by Dr. Penny Atkins

Understanding Decarbonised Transport in 2050 was co-authored by the AEC’s Dr Penny Atkins, as first of a series of studies by the Transport Energy Network in collaboration with the University of Brighton, the Advanced Propulsion Centre and the Low Carbon… Continue Reading →

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