Dr Adriana Encinas-Oropesa
Research Fellow in Energy Technology
Location: Building 56b, Cranfield campus
E: a.encinas-oropesa@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2535
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Encinas-Oropesa is the Course Director for the Materials for Energy Supply and the Renewable Energy Technology MSc courses.
- evaluation of materials performance for gas turbines
- evaluating the hot corrosion/oxidation resistant of new and current coatings.
Clients
- Rolls-Royce plc
- Siemens Industrial Turbo-machinery
- Siemens Power Generation Inc
- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Supergen PLE
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Background
Dr Adriana Encinas-Oropesa gained an Industrial Design degree in Guadalajara Mexico in 1992. After some years working in industry, she completed a masters degree in Industrial Design and New Product Creation in Barcelona, Spain. She studied the hot corrosion of single crystal superalloys and platinum-aluminide coatings for her PhD and graduated in 2006 at Cranfield.
Since then, Adriana has been a Research Officer at Cranfield’s Energy Technology Centre, working on the study/understanding of the performance of materials in gas turbines engines for power generation and/or aircraft application; as well as testing methods related to materials and coating performance in specific corrosive/oxidation environments.
