Ocean Renewable energy Fuel
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
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Publications
Delpisheh M
(2024)
Leveraging machine learning in porous media
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Elwan H
(2023)
Porous Electrode Optimization for PEMFCs Using 3D Printing Technology
in ECS Meeting Abstracts
Mamlouk M
(2022)
Comprehensive Renewable Energy
Mularczyk A
(2024)
Manufacturing Free-Standing, Porous Metallic Layers with Dynamic Hydrogen Bubble Templating
in Advanced Materials Interfaces
Niblett D
(2023)
Bubble and Dissolved Gas Distribution in Flow through Membraneless Water Electrolysis
in ECS Meeting Abstracts
Niblett D
(2024)
Review of next generation hydrogen production from offshore wind using water electrolysis
in Journal of Power Sources
Niblett D
(2023)
Water cluster characteristics of fuel cell gas diffusion layers with artificial microporous layer crack dilation
in Journal of Power Sources
Ramakrishnan S
(2024)
Offshore green hydrogen production from wind energy: Critical review and perspective
in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
| Description | membraneless electrolysis can be viable and patent application is being submitted. direct sea water electrolysis is not competitive and it is more efficient and economic to desalinate water prior to electrolysis. offshore hydrogen production has huge potential with significant cost reduction for green hydrogen. study integration of direct wind power with hydrogen production and impact on system lifetime and costs reductions |
| Exploitation Route | develop membraneless electrolysers, invest in offshore hydrogen production, system engineering design and control from electrolyser integration data with offshore wind |
| Sectors | Chemicals Energy Government Democracy and Justice Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| URL | https://www.oceanrefuel.ac.uk/ |
| Description | our developed open-source Porous Microstructure Generator software has gained worldwide success with around +6000 downloads including large industries such as Unilever and Airbus https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471 our developed and IP protected membrane less electrolyser design was selected to present at House of Commons for STEM for Britain - "Achieving Separation in Membraneless Electrolysers" (11th March 2025) |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Energy,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | software to generate 3D image and create file for any porous structure |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | over 9000 views and 300o downloads |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471/4 |
| Title | Wind Speed & Power Generated Dataset For Floating Offshore 7 MW and 15 MW Turbine |
| Description | Example data for wind speed and wind power generated for a simulated 7 MW floating offshore wind turbine (2 days) and a 15 MW turbine (6 hours). Used in Ocean refuel review article upcoming publication.Power generated can be used to test the dynamic operation of water electrolysers for performance and degradationColumn 1 = Time (s)Column 2 = Wind Velocity (m/s)Column 3 = Power Generated (MW) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Wind_Speed_Power_Generated_Dataset_For_Floating_Offshore_7_M... |
| Title | Wind Speed & Power Generated Dataset For Floating Offshore 7 MW and 15 MW Turbine |
| Description | Example data for wind speed and wind power generated for a simulated 7 MW floating offshore wind turbine (2 days) and a 15 MW turbine (6 hours). Used in Ocean refuel review article upcoming publication.Power generated can be used to test the dynamic operation of water electrolysers for performance and degradationColumn 1 = Time (s)Column 2 = Wind Velocity (m/s)Column 3 = Power Generated (MW) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Wind_Speed_Power_Generated_Dataset_For_Floating_Offshore_7_M... |
| Description | collaboration on membrane free electrolysis |
| Organisation | Simon Fraser University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | develop porous electrode for membrane less separators |
| Collaborator Contribution | run CT scan on electrode to generate structure to allow for modelling and test it in membraneless electrolyser |
| Impact | on going joint research to produce joint publication |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | collaboration with Jeonbuk National University |
| Organisation | Chonbuk National University |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | research materials exchange, bidirectional access to facilities and joint publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | joint research effort on materials development for electrolysers, joint characterisations and testing and four joint journal publications |
| Impact | multidisciplinary between science and engineering. Output: four joint papers listed under OCeanRefuel project publications section in researchfish. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | collaboration with ORE catapult |
| Organisation | ORE Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ORE catapult provided access to confidential high resolution wind generation data and other key data important for integration of offshore wind with electrolyser system |
| Collaborator Contribution | The high resolution data is key to study integration of offshore wind with electrolyser and run tests to study the integration and impact on lifetime. several entities were approached by refused to share this data. Data is extremely valuable and essential for the work undertaken. |
| Impact | use real time high resolution supplied data to generate test profiles to study electrolyser integration with offshore wind power to study the system. Tests are long term testing and results will be published once complete |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | collaboration with TU Delft |
| Organisation | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | knowledge exchange on offshore wind coupling with electrolysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | private data and information knowledge exchange on offshore wind coupling with electrolysis and explore research visits and joint bids |
| Impact | useful know how and multidisciplinary knowledge exchange around system design |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Title | membrane free electrolyser design UK Patent Application No 2410504.1 |
| Description | the present invention provide an electrolyser that operates without a physical barrier between the electrodes to prevent mixing of electrolysis products. Advantageously, the resultant system is cost effective as the membranes used for physical barriers can be expensive. In addition, this will result in replacing the solid membrane electrolyte with 10-100times higher conductivity liquid electrolyte in the gap between the electrodes. This in turn results in lower ohmic overpotentials and higher efficiency. |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | 2024 |
| Licensed | No |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | NOTE: Windows version installation file is not working, Mac version is fine, I'm working on a fix. For now I have removed.Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) is a GUI software that can generate computational 3D structures of porous materials using a set of customised algorithms. The surfaces can be exported as .tiff or .stl for use in other simulation software. Download file for installer of the PMG - Porous Microstructure Generator. This requires Matlab Runtime, which will be downloaded from the web automatically once you open the installer file (.app for macOS and .exe for windows). You do not need matlab installed to run the tool. This download contains both mac and windows versions. There is slight differences with the mac (development) and windows (older version) versions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471/6 |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) is a GUI software that can generate computational 3D structures of porous materials using a set of customised algorithms. The surfaces can be exported as .tiff or .stl for use in other simulation software. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | downloaded by large industries such as Airbus and Unilever with >4000 views and 950 downloads |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471/4 |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) is a GUI software that can generate computational 3D structures of porous materials using a set of customised algorithms. The surfaces can be exported as .tiff or .stl for use in other simulation software. NOTE: April 2024 update - in order to track user data to enable future funding and updates, please complete form In provided link for free license. Feedback for PMG license If the app asks for license file then complete the form and wait for email containing license. PMG 2.0 will not ask for this file again, as long as its path/name is not changed. If you do not give a valid license, it will shutdown. Download file for installer of the PMG - Porous Microstructure Generator. This requires Matlab Runtime, which will be downloaded from the web automatically once you open the installer file (.app for macOS and .exe for windows). You do not need matlab installed to run the tool. This download contains both mac and windows versions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471/8 |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) is a GUI software that can generate computational 3D structures of porous materials using a set of customised algorithms. The surfaces can be exported as .tiff or .stl for use in other simulation software. Download file for installer of the PMG - Porous Microstructure Generator. This requires Matlab Runtime, which will be downloaded from the web automatically once you open the installer file (.app for macOS and .exe for windows). You do not need matlab installed to run the tool. This download contains both mac and windows versions. There is slight differences with the mac (development) and windows (older version) versions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471/5 |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) is a GUI software that can generate computational 3D structures of porous materials using a set of customised algorithms. The surfaces can be exported as .tiff or .stl for use in other simulation software.NOTE: The time-limited app in PMG 1.5 has been updated to use a license file. If the app asks for license, download the 'license.csv' and select this file. PMG 2.0 will not ask for this file again, as long as its path/name is not changed. If you do not give a valid license, it will shutdown.Download file for installer of the PMG - Porous Microstructure Generator. This requires Matlab Runtime, which will be downloaded from the web automatically once you open the installer file (.app for macOS and .exe for windows).You do not need matlab installed to run the tool. This download contains both mac and windows versions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471 |
| Title | Porous Microstructure Generator |
| Description | Porous Microstructure Generator (PMG) is a GUI software that can generate computational 3D structures of porous materials using a set of customised algorithms. The surfaces can be exported as .tiff or .stl for use in other simulation software.NOTE: The time-limited app in PMG 1.5 has been updated to use a license file. If the app asks for license, download the 'license.csv' and select this file. PMG 2.0 will not ask for this file again, as long as its path/name is not changed. If you do not give a valid license, it will shutdown.Download file for installer of the PMG - Porous Microstructure Generator. This requires Matlab Runtime, which will be downloaded from the web automatically once you open the installer file (.app for macOS and .exe for windows).You do not need matlab installed to run the tool. This download contains both mac and windows versions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/software/Porous_Microstructure_Generator/20448471/7 |
| Description | Invited Talk: Offshore green hydrogen production, challenges and opportunities with Keppel Singapore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | explain and discuss current decarbonisation technologies focusing on hydrogen for shipping, their advantage and limitations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | talk and discuss Offshore green hydrogen production, challenges and opportunities during Chemicals & Materials for Emerging Technologies event on 18th Oct 2022, in Doha/Online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.qu.edu.qa/conference/chemical-and-materials-for-emergent-technologies |
| Description | Talk and Discussion about power to carbon free fuel in offshore environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | stakeholder event to discuss how to convert wind offshore power to power to carbon free fuels and opportunities and challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |