£13m boost for ‘cutting edge’ engineering projects
Three engineering research projects that promise to help solve major problems facing the UK have been awarded grants totalling £13.6m.
The research, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will address issues such as carbon re-use, the complex behaviour of fluid flows and the fundamental design of major infrastructure.
"This research is significant and will bring about 'green' advances in industrial practice at a time when the UK needs to up its game and build for growth," said EPSRC chief executive David Delpy. "Research into re-using carbon can help us cut our carbon emissions, new design techniques will help us build safer structures and new industrial models will change the way the UK works."
Professor Ray Allen from the University of Sheffield has been awarded a £4.5m grant to look into new ways to capture CO2 efficiently and to study how it can be converted into a fuel; while £4.2m has been given to Professor David from the University of Bristol's department of mechanical engineering to create new methods for designing complex structures like bridges and airplanes.
The third and final grant has been issued to Professor Omar Matar from Imperial College London, who has been given £4.9m to design a new generation of modelling and simulation tools for fluid flow systems such as oil and gas transportation in pipelines.
