At a glance
- DatesDecember 2016-November 2020
- SponsorEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Funded£450,000 Cranfield’s income (£1.6 million total project)
- PartnersBrunel University London, University College London, University of Leeds and Queen’s University Belfast
By working closely with key industrial and academic collaborators, OPTEMIN is developing methods to demonstrate the potential of energy demand and carbon emission reductions offered by energy efficiency, heat recovery and conversion to electrical or thermal energy, waste to energy conversion and energy integration.
The project will involve the analysis of the scope of these options by taking into account interactions across three levels: individual process or plant level, whole site and national energy supply system (grid electricity and gas). The project is also identifying the role of technical, economic and organisational factors acting as barriers to the adoption of energy-efficient technologies and developing innovative business models to address them.
Publications
Journal articles
- Control of supercritical organic Rankine cycle-based waste heat recovery system using conventional and fuzzy self-tuned PID controllers
- Modelling and simulation of steel reheating processes under oxy-fuel combustion conditions – technical and environmental perspectives
- Reducing industrial energy demand in the UK: a review of energy efficiency technologies and energy saving potential in selected sectors
- Fuzzy nonlinear dynamic evaporator model in supercritical organic Rankine cycle waste heat recovery systems
Conferences
- Waste heat recovery potential from industrial bakery ovens using thermodynamic power cycles
- Feasibility study of biomass gasification integrated with reheating furnaces in the steelmaking process
- Optimal scheduling of multi-carrier energy networks considering liquid air energy storage
- Thermal performance analysis of flameless oxy-fuel combustion trials on a reheating furnace using zone method-based model
- Factors affecting the adoption of energy efficiency in heat intensive industries: a case study of UK commercial bakeries
- Potentials of load-shifting with renewable energy storage: An environmental and economic assessment for the UK
- Contemporary enlightenment on energy efficiency in industry
Further information
For more information about the project, please also see the EPSRC and UCL websites.