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!