IOM3 Energy Materials Group Newsletter Issue 15 June 2018
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Newsletter
Energy
Materials
Group
June 2018
Issue 15
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EMG Newsletter Lead – June 2018
The nuclear electrical power generation scene and that for the nuclear energy industry, in general, is changing progressively in the UK despite controversial comments in the media. Two related examples are progress at the Hinkley Point C site and the National College for Nuclear.
Certainly the build at the Hinkley Point C site appears to be steadily more impressive. There are now 3,176 people on site and the challenges posed by the unpredictable winter weather were overcome. Construction of the Nuclear Island for Unit 1 is proceeding to schedule with work concentrating currently on the pre-stressing gallery. Elsewhere on site the foundations for the 750m long sea wall are now in place, together with the piles for the 500m jetty which will allow 80% of the aggregate for the concrete required for construction to be delivered by sea. The teams are now preparing for tunnel boring machines to arrive on site to create cooling water tunnels that will extend 3km under the Bristol Channel and draw in 12,000L of water a second once operational. Meanwhile a network of galleries, that will contain the 400km of pipework and 4,000km of electrical cabling, are being installed across the site. Moreover, in the supporting commercial world the focus is now very much on the phase which follows the main civil construction works. The Tier 1 contractors in these areas are developing supply chains and creating appropriate joint ventures. A hugely important part is identifying the skills required by these work programmes, the numbers for each trade.
To meet such needs and broader skills across the industry the National College for Nuclear is a key part of the government’s strategy through the Department for Education. The aim is to address the national skills shortage and is a partnership between Sellafield Ltd, Lakes College and the University of Cumbria, which has created the Northern Hub and EDF Energy, Bridgewater & Taunton College and Bristol University, which is the Southern Hub. Hence the National College for Nuclear specialises in training and development to meet the specific needs of the nuclear industry for new build, operation and decommissioning. There has been an investment in buildings and facilities for the both the Southern and Northern Hubs. These new facilities offer world-class training facilities for the advanced and higher technical skill levels, including virtual design facilities and augmented reality. The National College for Nuclear has developed standards for the employer-led curriculum and accreditation, driving the standards of training for the nuclear sector and developing clear, specialised nuclear engineering pathways between school and university. After an initial year of consolidation and curriculum development the College is seeking to increase its national outreach in terms of employer and learner engagement.
Professor Peter Flewitt
Vice Chair EMG
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Swansea Bay City Region: A Renewable Energy Future (Energy system vision for 2035 - April 2018)
This Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) report makes an interesting read. The IWA’s Re-energising Wales project has brought together representatives from industry, regional stakeholders and academia that have an interest in the future development and transformation of the energy system in Wales. The overall objective of the project is to provide practical plan by which Wales could achieve its ambition to maximise its use of renewable energy resources by 2035, resulting in an 80% reduction in energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
As part of the Re-energising Wales project, Regen has been asked to conduct an analysis of the future energy demands and potential sources of energy generation and, working with the Re-energising Wales steering group, to create a low carbon energy system vision for the Swansea Bay City Region (SBCR) in the time period to 2035. This report covers the Regen analysis for the SBCR, namely how the region could meet the goals set by IWA, i.e.
• Deliver a step change in domestic and commercial and industrial energy efficiency represented by at least a 20% reduction in heat and electricity demand, with a 30% energy efficiency stretch target.
• Maximise use of regional energy resources to achieve a target of renewable electricity generation equivalent to 100% of electricity consumption on an annual basis. Deliver an overall carbon intensity < 50g CO2e/kWh from local renewable generation and imported (or backup) electricity.
• 40% of heat supply from decarbonised heat supply sources – through electrification, gas decarbonisation and use of renewable energy sources. Reduce the overall carbon emissions from supply of heat (including energy efficiency) by at least 40% compared to 2017.
• Become a leading region for the reduction of vehicle emissions through: • the electrification of transport with 80% of new cars, and over 30% of all cars electric by 2035. • growth and decarbonisation of public transport with 100% Ultra Low Emission Vehicles by 2035.
• Maximise use of local energy resources to minimise the need for imported electricity with a target of less than 15% electricity imports over the year. Support Wales’ ambition that all renewable energy schemes should have an element of local ownership as a basis for another workstream within the Re-energising Wales project.
• Use flexibility through energy storage, time of use tariffs, smart charging and appliances, and demand side response, to minimise energy system imbalance, grid impacts and imports.
The full report is available at http://www.iwa.wales/news/2018/05/re-energising-wales-swansea-bay-city-region-renewable-energy-future-report/
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Energy Materials Information Streams
The EMG microsite is a mine of information relating to Energy
Materials with links to various sources of information, including funding sources for collaborative research/development.
The EMG microsite is actively managed and regularly updated;
the link to the appropriate location on the microsite is given
below
http://www.iom3.org/energy-materials-group/energy-
materials-links
EMG Annual Lecture
Please note the EMG annual lecture to be given by Professor Nigel
Brandon OBE, FREng on the subject of energy materials for
electric vehicles and low carbon grids, 14th June 2018, 5.30 for
6pm at IOM3 headquarters, 297 Euston Rd. London, NW1 3AD. See flyer next page. Free registration for IOM3 student members.
Front Cover
So have you decided what the picture on the front cover is?
What we are seeing is whiskers emerging from a Sn plate on a
circuit board. Sn is widely used in soldering and is one of the
main causes of short circuits in circuit boards, where the Sn
whisker can bridge between contacts
The geography of the Swansea Bay City Region includes
Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Neath Port
Talbot. The above graphic from the IWA report shows existing
solar PV projects over 500 kW in SBCR, based on Regen collated
data for the Welsh Government’s ‘Energy Generation in Wales
report’
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Committee Member Profile
Dr Cem Selcuk, Business Development Consultant & Manager, TWI Limited
([email protected]) Short CV Dr Cem Selcuk received his BSc (Hons), 1999, from the department of Metallurgical and Materials
Engineering of M.E.T.U in Ankara, Turkey then PhD, 2003, in Materials Engineering and Materials Design from the University of Nottingham, UK. Following his post-doctoral research at the same university, Cem moved into industry as a project manager in innovative product and technology
development. Dr Selcuk is a Business Development Consultant and the Manager for Innovation Accelerators at TWI. Prior to that, he was the Manager and Head of Brunel Innovation Centre (BIC). He is an active professional member of the European Powder Manufacturers Association (EPMA),
American Powder Metallurgy Institute (APMI), IOM3 (FIMMM) and The Welding Institute (FWeldI). Cem has been the Chairman for the Particulate Engineering Committee (PEC) and involved in other committees (Vice-Chairman of the Defence, Safety and Security Committee-DSSC) hence is a member
of several boards at IOM3; Materials Science and Technology (MSTD) as well as Energy Materials Group. Dr Selcuk sits on several sector groups at the EPMA (e.g. HIP, AM). Cem has over 300 citations
to his publications (over 75) in peer-reviewed journals. He has presented at numerous international conferences, authored book chapters and industrial project reports, contributed to white papers. He has both served as a referee and editor. Dr Cem Selcuk sits on the editorial board of
Powder Metallurgy; the official journal of EPMA Materials Interests The main materials interest is probably all things associated with power metallurgy, from powder production to additive maufacture. Under pinning
all this is quality and material perfomance where inspection is a fundamental issue with PM components. Whilst at Brunel we developed an automated defect recognition (ADR) system specifically for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) of powder metallurgy (PM) parts using three
dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) imaging.
Outside Interests Cem speaks three languages; Turkish, English and French. He is a keen basketball player and a founding member of the weekly Friday slam-dunk
sessions at TWI with regular followers, but he likes a good game of tennis as well.
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Organisation Profile EPERC
The European Pressure Equipment Research Council (EPERC) is a European Network of industries, research laboratories, inspection bodies and governmental institutions set up to foster co-operative research for the greater benefit of the European pressure equipment industry. EPERC is a not-for-profit organisation registered in Brussels.
EPERC's main objectives are to: Co-ordinate, develop and promote the common technical interests and strategies of European industry with regard to pressure equipment through:
a) Research in relation to the international context and European institutions, b) Exchange of industry experience in the fabrication, use, inspection, monitoring, safe life assessment etc., and, c) Influencing the codes and standards by providing industry and research information and data. EPERC is organized on the basis of national networks and is co-ordinated through the Structural Integrity Unit of the Institute for Advanced Materials (JRC-Petten). The network draws together European expertise in the pressure equipment field and provides a unified representation and improved image of the European pressure equipment industry. EPERC areas of research priorities recently defined by its Members are:
1) Fatigue. Principally revision of clauses 17 and 18 in EN 13445-3 dedicated to fatigue within CEN/TC 54/WG 53/DESIGN CRITERIA 2) Alternatives to the in-service pressure test. This Technical Task Group aims to enable the sharing of best practice with regard to in-service re-qualification of pressure equipment and alternatives to pressure testing. The aim is to promote discussion about the requirements among technical experts and legislators at a national and European level. 3) Rules for bolted flange connections.
EPERC would welcome any individuals or companies with an interest in formulating the program of technical actions within these TTFs, or indeed in participating in the R&D activities. EPERC has recently issued “Call for Papers” for a 3-day Conference on ‘Pressure Equipment Innovation and Safety‘, Rome, April 2019.
For further details on the EPERC please refer to http://www.eperc-aisbl.eu/
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Editor’s Titbits Section
Argentina’s eating habits ‘are the most emissions-intensive’
Argentina emits the highest levels of food-related carbon dioxide per person, with each of its citizens producing 305.8kg of the greenhouse gas each year through their eating habits, that’s according to a new study from nutrition retailer nu3. It tops the list largely because of high beef consumption, which is rated as the most environmentally intensive food. The UK comes in 25th place at 172.5kg of carbon dioxide per person.
Argentina’s top place on the rankings means it could make the biggest impact to the environment by switching to plant-based diets – the report says each person could save a massive 297.9kg by opting for vegetables instead of meat, bringing total food-related emissions down to 7.9kg of carbon dioxide per person. Fish and poultry have a far lower carbon dioxide emission rate than fattier red meats such as lamb and beef, while eggs produce significantly lower emission rates than milk products and cheese.”
UK Government ‘should promote hydrogen as a way of storing energy’
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has called on the government to allow excess electricity to be stored in the gas grid in the form of hydrogen. It suggests this would solve the problem of storing excess renewable energy, with the gas grid being able to store hydrogen for a greater amount of time than some other forms of energy storage such as batteries. The hydrogen could then be used to produce low emission fuel for transport and cut carbon emissions from the heating system. The institution calls for the creation of an industrial forum bringing together the nuclear, renewable power and gas sectors to promote the storage of hydrogen and for the government to work with the gas industry to promote the use of up to 20% hydrogen in the gas distribution network by 2023.
London’s police opt for clean hydrogen cars
The Metropolitan Police Service has bought 11 hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai cars to help create the world’s largest fleet of zero-emission fuel-cell electric police vehicles. It says the cars, which will be equipped to work as both marked and unmarked vehicles, will produce water as their only tailpipe emission as hydrogen is turned into electricity to power its motor.
Their introduction is expected to support the Mayor of London’s clean air strategy by helping to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide, particulate matter and nitrogen dioxides produced by the Met’s fleet. The cars will have access to five hydrogen filling stations across the capital – a number that’s set to increase in the future – and each car is expected to be able to cover approximately 300 miles on a full tank of hydrogen.
Ed’s Note: The source of many of these titbits is Energy Live News.
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Editor’s Titbits Section Self-Assembling 3D Battery Would Charge in Seconds
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a novel energy storage device architecture that has the potential for lightning-quick charges. Instead of having the batteries' anode and cathode on either side of a nonconducting separator, they intertwine the components in a self-assembling, 3D gyroidal structure, with thousands of nanoscale pores filled with the elements necessary for energy storage and delivery.
The gyroidal thin films of carbon - the battery's anode, generated by block copolymer self-assembly - featured thousands of periodic pores on the order of 40 nanometers wide. These pores were then coated with a 10 nm-thick, electronically insulating but ion-conducting separator through electropolymerization, which by the very nature of the process produced a pinhole-free separation layer. The next step is the addition of the cathode material - in this case, sulphur - in an amount that doesn't quite fill the remainder of the pores. Since sulphur can accept electrons but doesn't conduct electricity, the final step is backfilling with an electronically conducting polymer - known as PEDOT (poly[3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene]).
The group is still perfecting the technique, but applied for patent protection on the proof-of-concept work. Details of the work "Block Copolymer Derived 3-D Interpenetrating Multifunctional Gyroidal Nanohybrid for Electrical Energy Storage," was published May 16 2018 in Energy and Environmental Science
Source: ENERGY TECH Date: May 24, 2018
UK scientists use seals to measure climate change effects
Seals equipped with sensors that measure temperature and salinity have been active in the Amundsen Sea in an attempt to predict more accurately the effect of climate on water levels. Measurements of the warmth and saltiness of the water were sent by the seals as they moved around the area and dived from the surface of the ocean down through the water to the seabed in their hunt for food.
The data sent through satellite from more than 10,000 dives over an area of around 150,000 square km found the deep-water current known as the Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) is bigger, warmer and saltier in the winter months than during the summer, which suggests there is likely to be more melting of the ice sheets during the winter. The warm band of water is thought to be accelerating the melt of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which if lost entirely could raise sea levels by 3.2 metres, according to scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at the University of St Andrews.
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Editor’s Titbits Section
SEAT cuts environmental footprint by 35.5%
Car manufacturer SEAT said it has reduced its environmental footprint by 35.5% in the last seven years. Its Martorell facility in Spain has one of the largest solar plant in Europe’s automotive industry, with a total of 53,000 panels covering an area equivalent to 40 football fields and generating 17 million kWh of electricity a year. The company added it met its target to cut its environmental impact by 25% between 2011 and 2018 two years early and is now aiming for a 50% reduction by 2025.
Cambridgeshire wind turbine catches fire in lightning storm
An 89-metre wind turbine in Ransonmoor Wind Farm in Doddington, Cambridgeshire caught alight on 30th May as thunder and lightning storms swept the region. The cause of the fire has yet to be confirmed by the fire service, although a lightning strike is suspected, the fire was allowed to burn out safely and required no intervension. A spokesman for renewable energy company Siemens Gamesa, which oversees the operation and maintenance of the turbines at Ransonmoor Wind Farm in the village, said its engineers were investigating the incident. The five turbines at the Ransonmoor site, in operation since 2007, produce around 26 GWH of electricity per annum.
‘World’s first’ liquid air storage site opens in UK
Highview Power has launched what it claims is the world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant. The 5MW LAES plant in Bury was developed in partnership with recycling and renewable energy company Viridor.
LAES technology stores freely available air as a liquid – when this is converted back to a gas it releases stored energy, driving a turbine to generate electricity. Offpeak or excess electricity is used to power an air liquefier. To recover power the liquid air is pumped to high pressure, evaporated and heated. The high pressure gas drives a turbine to generate electricity.
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Upcoming Events
Next Committee Meetings
14 June 2018, IOM3, Euston Rd, London, UK. (Note start is 13:00 followed by the Annual Lecture)
EMG Workshops/Conferences
Power Plant Operation & Flexibility, 4 – 6 July 2018, London, UK
Other Workshops/Conferences/Courses of Interest
EMG Annual Lecture, ”Materials for Energy Storage in Electric Vehicles and Low Carbon Grids: Challenges and Opportunities”, 14 June 2018, IOM3, Euston Rd, London, UK www.iom3.org/emg2018
EPRI Expert Workshop on Creep Continuum Damage Models for Structural Mechanics in Collaboration with ASME PVP, 19 – 20 July 2018, Prague, CZ
2nd International Conference on Energy Materials and Fuel Cell Research, 27 - 28 August 2018, Boston, USA
Residual Stresses in Thermal Spray Coatings, 3 – 4 Sep 2018, Aberdeen, UK
12th ECCRIA The European Conference on Fuel and Energy Research and its Applications, 5 – 7 Sept 2018, Cardiff, UK
EuroSuperalloys 2018, 9 – 13 Sept 2018, Oxford University, UK
OXY 2018, Dec, IOM3, Euston Rd, London, UK (Dates to be confirmed)
High Temperature Materials Degradation Workshop 2019, 29 Jan 2019, Grantham, UK
Parsons 2019, 16 – 18 September 2019, Cranfield University, UK
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