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EPSRC Reference:	EP/L018098/1
Title:	Loughborough University - Equipment Account
Principal Investigator:	Parsons, Professor DR
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Department:	Wolfson Sch of Mech, Elec & Manufac Eng
Organisation:	Loughborough University
Scheme:	Standard Research - NR1
Starts:	23 January 2014	Ends:	22 January 2024	Value (£):	2,555,641
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Summary on Grant Application Form
This proposal requests capital infrastructure to create ThemExS Lab, a future centre of excellence for research on exergy storage involving high-grade heat. The proposal builds on the growing international consensus that heat capture, conversion and storage will become increasingly important in the move to a low carbon energy system and our analysis that it is likely to play a pivotal role in providing cost effective energy storage options both at the very large centralized and small distributed grid-scales. This revised version of the bid still covers the three categories in the original proposal, however to meet the reduction in funding to £1.7 million a significant reduction in the scale of the transition scale test platforms has been made. In addition, further discount arrangements are being negotiated with a number of suppliers, which has enabled greater value from the investment) The division of funds between categories is now (A) Materials characterisation equipment for high grade heat storage materials (£0.536M) (B) Bench scale test platforms for examining heat transfer, fluid flow and storage density (£0.297M) (C) Transition scale test platforms giving insight into full scale system behaviours (£0.866M).
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