From the Sunday news, to the discussions in industry, electrical energy has never had a higher profile among engineers and the general public alike. The aim of the AIMES symposium series is to keep industrial professionals and stakeholders up to date with the latest developments. This symposium tackles two important and current areas: energy storage and the application of new technologies to future smartgrids (specifically big data/data analytics and robotics).
The Advanced Intelligent Multi-Energy Systems (AIMES) symposium founded by Prof. John Counsell, University Chester, will this year hold its summer meeting at The University of Manchester.
It will address two timely topics: energy storage in the electrical network, and the introduction of technology to make the grid smarter. The aim of this AIMES workshop is to present the views from both industry and the R&D communities.
Day 1 – Energy Storage
• Electrical and thermal storage
• Energy storage systems and renewables
• Energy storage systems and buildings
Day 2 – The Smarter Grid
• Sensors
• Robotics
• Modelling and Artificial Intelligence
Speakers
Luke Eatough
Role: The MIMREE Project
Organisation: MIMREE Project, ORE Catapult
Biography: Luke Eatough is a member of the project development team at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. His role involves identifying technologies with the potential to reduce the cost and risk of operating offshore windfarms and he works in partnership with industry and academia to support the commercialisation of these innovations. Luke is ORE Catapult’s business development lead for robotics development and he is currently delivering the technical analysis for a BEIS-funded report on the potential impact of O&M innovations on offshore wind operational costs.
Dr Sam Bradbrook
Role: Robotics, AI and autonomy – Emerging health and safety risks and opportunities
Organisation: Health and Safety Executive
Biography: Dr Sam Bradbrook is an experienced futurist with more than 12 years’ experience in the Health and Safety Executive's Foresight Centre. His role is to monitor developments in science, technology, economics and politics to help identify issues and their implications that could significantly affect workplace health and safety in the UK in the future. His activities help contribute to the development of HSE’s strategic priorities, policy objectives, science planning and research and programme development. This helps enable HSE and the broader health and safety system to anticipate and keep pace with change.
Professor David Flynn
Role: The role of sensing as part of the integrated offering of robotics and operational decision support
Organisation: Heriot-Watt University
Biography: Prof. David Flynn is the founder of the Smart Systems Group (SSG) at Heriot-Watt University. His research interests are focussed on creating next generation solutions for intelligent asset management. This research relates to applications within challenging and remote environments, for example, offshore wind turbine asset management and subsea power cable inspection.
Dr. David Greenwood
Role: Frequency response from energy storage in power systems with high penetration of renewable energy
Organisation: Newcastle University
Biography: Dr. David Greenwood is an engineering researcher with a particular interest in power networks, smart girds, energy storage, probabilistic methods and the effect of weather on electrical systems. His PhD, completed in July 2014, focused on the Real-Time Thermal Rating of overhead lines in electrical networks.
Dr. Zhiwei Ma
Role: Seasonal solar thermal energy storage-the potential "free heating" technology for your house
Organisation: Newcastle University
Biography: Dr. Zhiwei Ma, is a senior research associate in Sir Joseph Swan Centre for Energy Research in Newcastle University, currently working on low grate heat utilisation for heating, cooling and power generation.
Dr. Carmen Li
Role: Energy as a service provider for businesses
Organisation: Q-Bots Energy
Biography: Dr. Carmen Li, is a Data Scientist at Qbots Energy. She received her PhD in mathematical physics from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on data-driven model predictive control, focusing on applying machine learning techniques for building flexibility modelling and battery storage optimisation for commercial buildings.
Dr. Oluyemi Jegede
Role: Modelling energy storage in a multi-vector energy system at Lancaster University
Organisation: The University of Birmingham
Biography: Dr. Oluyemi Jegede is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Birmingham focusing on developing a computer model to assess the economic and environmental value of storage technologies within local energy systems. This model is currently being used in collaboration with Lancaster University to establish the potential of various thermal energy storage technologies on the Lancaster University campus.
Professor John Counsell
Role: State-of-the-Art Low Carbon Heating using Electrical and/or Thermal Storage
Organisation: The University of Chester
Biography: Prof. John Counsell is Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Chester. He leads the research activities in “Engineering Systems Architecture” covering Renewable Energy Systems, Terahertz RF, LiFi communications, Low Voltage DC Remote Powering, Advanced Control Systems, UAVs, Building Energy Systems and Local/Community Energy Systems.
Adrian Stetco
Role: Machine Learning approaches to condition monitoring in wind energy systems
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Adrian Stetco is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester School of Computer Science. His research focus is on deriving knowledge from large data sets through the use of Machine Learning.
Alastair Straker
Role: Improving thermal substation inspections with machine learning
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Alastair Straker is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, investigating using machine learning techniques to improve thermal image accuracy in substation inspections. His interests lie in the fields of image processing and embedded systems development.
Ananya Gupta
Role: Semantic change detection from aerial imagery using machine learning
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Ananya Gupta is a PhD student at the University of Manchester working on object detection in aerial imagery and 3D data. She is an ACM SIGHPC/Intel Fellow and has been a visiting research scholar at Intel (2017) and Google X (2018).
Andrew West
Role: How robots see the world - common sensors used for robot perception
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Andrew West is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester Robotics for Extreme Environments group. His work currently focuses on the characterisation of unknown nuclear environments through the use of novel instrumentation and autonomy on mobile robots.
Anees Mohammed / Ignacio Melecio
Role: Use of in-situ fibre-optic sensing for advanced machine condition monitoring
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Anees Mohammed received the MSc degree in Electrical Power Engineering from University of Newcastle, UK, in 2010. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Manchester, UK, where he is employed as a Research Associate. He spent four years working as Assistant Lecturer at Benghazi University, Libya. His research interests are in electric machines, drives and condition monitoring.
Dr. Alberto Bolzoni
Role: Experience, and performance of a lithium-ion grid-linked battery system
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Dr. Alberto Bolzoni is a research associate at The University of Manchester, and his research interests include system-level impedance, stability and the control performance of energy storage assets.
Dr. Qingwei Zhu
Role: Experience, and performance of a lithium-ion grid-linked battery system
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Dr. Qingwei Zhu is a research associate at The University of Manchester, his research interests include battery energy storage system, power electronics and wireless power transfer.
Dr. Xiao Wang
Role: Distributed control of Virtual Storage Plants for balancing and ancillary services in UK
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Dr. Xiao Wang received his BSc and PhD degree in control theory and engineering from North Eastern University, China in 2013 and 2018. From 2015 to 2017, he was with University of Denver as a visiting PhD student, and also worked as a research intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA. Since January 2019, he joined Electrical Energy and Power Systems Group at the University of Manchester as a research associate, working on distributed controls for storage systems in power networks.
Jesus Carmona
Role: Holistic Multiphysics Modelling for Operation and Maintenance of Wind Power – VSC HVDC Systems
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Dr J. Carmona S. is currently a Research Associate with The University of Manchester. His main research interests include modelling, control and stability assessment of power electronic converters, smart multi-terminal HVDC networks and wind power drives.
Khristopher Kabbabe
Role: The true economic cost of autonomy for offshore inspection robotics
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Khris Kabbabe is a researcher at The University of Manchester currently investigating the role that robotics and autonomous systems will have in the next generation of offshore wind farms for the EPSRC funded HOME Offshore project. Khris has been involved in the development, operations, and systems integrations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems since 2011. His latest research focuses on understanding the costs associated with autonomous, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations of unmanned aircraft systems.
Siwei Liu
Role: Experience, and performance of a lithium-ion grid-linked battery system
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Siwei Liu is a PhD student at The University of Manchester, and does research on modelling on Li-ion battery and storage system.
Vasileios Tsormpatzoudis
Role: Experience, and performance of a lithium-ion grid-linked battery system
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Vasileios Tsormpatzoudis is a PhD candidate at The University of Manchester, and his research interests focus on system level energy storage, performance and control.
Charlotte Johnson
Role: Bridging the gap: A Market Perspective on the Distributed Energy System
Organisation: Upside Energy Ltd
Biography: Charlotte Johnson is a commercial analyst at Upside Energy, where she focuses on policy regulation, market developments and revenue modelling to identify strategic business opportunities for emerging energy solutions.
Steve Wattam
Role: Bridging the gap: A Market Perspective on the Distributed Energy System
Organisation: Upside Energy Ltd
Biography: Dr Steve Wattam is lead scientist at Upside Energy, where he works to develop digital and computational methods to address decarbonisation, capacity, and sustainability of the future energy system.
