Members
Operations
Research Fellows
Postgraduate students
Former members
Group members (November 2010)
Operations
Lacey-Jane Davis
Lacey is the Operations Co-ordinator for UK-SHEC. Her role is to manage the Consortium and oversee collaboration between 17 research teams at the 13 institutions involved in the research project. Lacey is currently managing the International Hydrogen Research Showcase 2011, which aims to disseminate knowledge mainly from UK and international researchers on sustainable hydrogen energy to an audience of scientific, industrial and policy stakeholders. Lacey has a scientific background in renewable energy, water and the environment and has a MSc in Toxicology.
Email: L.Davis@bath.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Dr Valeska P Ting
Dr Valeska Ting is the University Prize Fellow in Smart Nanomaterials. Her research is on developing smart responsive containment for nanoscale materials, with applications from gas storage to drug delivery.
Email: V.Ting@bath.ac.uk
Postgraduate students
Anna Hruzewicz-Kolodziejczyk
PhD Thesis: Standard methods and materials for hydrogen storage in nanoporous materials
Anna is a final year PhD student in the Mays Research Group. Her research deals with all experimental aspects of hydrogen storage via physisorption in nanoporous solids. The main effort is focused on the development of standard methodology and reference materials for this application. The investigated materials include activated carbons, zeolites and metal organic framework systems. The methods include low and high pressure sorption isotherms. The goal of her work is to establish a methodology that other researchers can use to obtain accurate and high quality hydrogen sorption data.
Email: A.Neczaj-Hruzewicz@bath.ac.uk
Nuno Bimbo
PhD Thesis: Modelling and Analysis of Hydrogen Storage in Nanostructured Solids for Sustainable Energy Systems
Nuno is working in the modelling and analysis of experimental data obtained for hydrogen storage in porous materials, mostly carbons and Metal-Organic Frameworks. The goal is to correlate some of the properties of the material - pore volume, heterogeneity of the surface, enthalpy of adsorption - to adsorptive uptakes and predict the materials' behaviour under different conditions.
Email: N.M.M.Bimbo@bath.ac.uk
Simon Owens
PhD Thesis: Kinetics and Mechanisms of Hydrogen Isotope Exchange over Solid Storage Media.
EPSRC Industrial CASE Award with AWE Aldermaston
Simon Owens is an EPSRC Industrial CASE Award PhD student in the Mays Research Group. His PhD thesis involves investigating the kinetics and mechanisms of hydrogen isotope exchange over solid storage media. To characterise the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the Hydrogen-Deuterium exchange process Simon will use a unique apparatus specially constructed for this project, which aims to characterise the kinetics, and elucidate the mechanisms, of hydrogen isotope exchange under a variety of different conditions within the solid storage medium - for example, variations in temperature, gas flow-rate, packing density and morphology of bed material.
Email: S.H.R.Owens@bath.ac.uk
Jessica Sharpe
PhD Thesis: Hydrogen storage in nanoporous materials for aerospace applications
Doctoral Training Centre PhD, together with EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company)
Jess is synthesising new materials, which include metal-organic frameworks and polymers of intrinsic microporosity. This is in order to analyse them for their potential use in hydrogen storage systems for aerospace applications, which include airplanes and satellites.
Email: J.Sharpe@bath.ac.uk
Antonio Noguera
PhD Thesis: Optimization of materials and methods for assessing hydrogen in nanostructured materials
Antonio will be focusing on optimising the methods for obtaining reliable data for hydrogen sorption in nanostructured materials, which include carbons, zeolites, metal-organic frameworks, porous polymers and others. His work will focus on obtaining accurate, low-temperature and high-pressure hydrogen sorption data for these materials.
Email: A.J.Noguera.Diaz@bath.ac.uk
Former members
Ibrahim Ahmet
Project: Development of nanoporous materials for aerospace (with Dr Tim Mays and Dr Andrew Burrows)
Ibby's project involved the testing and analysis of novel calcium metal-organic frameworks at high pressures, for possible applications in the aerospace industry.
Email: I.Y.Ahmet@bath.ac.uk
Laura Fisher
PhD Thesis: Gas Adsorption in Novel Metal Organic Frameworks
Laura just recently finished her PhD on gas adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks. She has been synthesising and characterising new MOFs in the department of Chemistry and analysing their gas adsorption properties by means of N2, CO2 and H2 adsorption in the department of Chemical Engineering. Laura graduated in July 2011.
Email: L.C.Fisher@bath.ac.uk
Shuang Yu
PhD Thesis: Modelling and Analysis of Hydrogen Storage using in Power Systems with Wind Farms to balance the Supply and Demands
Shuang is currently writing up her thesis. She investigates the dynamics of the complete hydrogen cycle energy storage and recovery mechanism, and identifies potential applications such as power smoothing, peak lopping and extending the power system controller range in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department co-operates with Chemical Engineering Department. She aims to design a practical hydrogen energy storage system for micro-grid applications. She hopes to graduate in Dec 2011.
Email: S.Yu2@bath.ac.uk
