Professor John Oakey
Professor of Energy Technology, Head of Energy and Resource Technology Centre
Location: Building 56b, Cranfield campus
E: j.e.oakey@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754253
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
- Gas Turbine – syngas firing, biomass/coal/waste
- Boiler Reliability – co-firing and oxy-fuel firing
- CO2 Capture by Lime Carbonation
- Oxy-firing of Gas Turbines
- Biomass/Sewage Sludge Co-combustion and Co-gasification
- Smart Gas Turbine Coatings
- Corrosion Test Method Standardisation
- Oxidation of Alumina-forming Alloys
- Residual Life Assessment and Component Life Modelling
- Advanced Bio-energy Systems
- UK Carbon Capture and Storage Consortium
- Oxy-combustion in Pulverised Coal Boilers
- CO2 Transport Pipelines.
Clients
- AEA Technology
- Alstom Power
- Biojoule
- Brunner Mond
- Corus
- Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
- Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd
- E.ON UK
- EPSRC
- Rolls-Royce plc
- RWE npower
- Siemens Power Generation
- Tetronics
- Thames Water
- Severn Trent
- Yorkshire Water.
Background
Professor John Oakey is Head of the Energy Technology Centre within the Department of Sustainable Systems in the School of Applied Sciences. He also heads the trans-campus Power Generation Technology Centre. Prior to joining Cranfield in 1998, he was a senior Branch Manager in British Coal’s - Coal Technology Development Division, leading a range of clean coal technology research programmes. With this research background in energy technologies, in particular materials and process troubleshooting, he has been at the centre of many of the UK’s clean coal projects in recent years. These include the BC/CEGB Joint Programme on PFBC, the Grimethorpe Topping Cycle Project and the Air Blown Gasification Cycle Programme in the 1990s.
John’s professional interests are in materials technologies in energy systems, the behaviour of fuels and the development of advanced gas cleaning technologies to protect the environment as well as to extend the life and economic performance of power systems. John has been involved in the organising committees of many international conferences, e.g. Materials for Advanced Power Engineering, Liege September 2006 (and previous conferences in 1998 and 2002), the Fourth International Workshop on Life Cycle Issues in Advanced Power Plants, New Zealand 2006 and the Parsons International Turbomachinery Conference, 2007. In addition, John is on the editorial committees of the journal’s Materials at High Temperatures and Energy Materials.
John has international research collaborations with many countries around the world. He chairs the EU COST Action 538 Management Committee on ‘High Temperature Plant Life Extension’, which involves over 50 partners in 17 European countries and leads the UK side of a major collaboration programme with the US on ‘Advanced Materials for Low Emission Power Plants’. He has been involved in three technology transfer projects with China on gas cleaning and underground coal gasification with further projects planned on coal gasification, CO2 capture technologies and biomass co-firing. In the UK he represents the University Sector on the UK’s Advanced Power Generation Technology Forum, is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, the Institute of Materials Energy Task Group and the Materials UK Energy Group (which aims to set the strategic research agenda in the UK in Energy Materials) as well as being an assessor for UK’s Technology Programme. In Europe he is a member of a number of networks, such as CO2NET2, Powerclean and Prewin. He also leads the Energy Materials area of the EU Technology Platform on Advanced Engineering Materials (EuMaT), which aims to contribute to setting the research agenda in Europe.
