INVITATION TO DELIVER A TECHNICAL TALK OR RESEARCH PAPER TO A KEY AUDIENCE OF ENERGY EXPERTS AT THE CLAVERTON / POWEREX EVENT IN LONDON.
When & where: 8th December 2022 at the prestigious Park Plaza Hotel – Westminster – London – Free lunch included – no attendance fee.
Virtual Lectures online can be delivered via the Internet, although most will be in person.
UPDATE: PROVISIONAL SPEAKER LIST: provisional speaker list:
(*Claverton Energy Group is one of the UK’s leading and entirely independent, cross-silo, cross-sectoral energy think tanks comprised of experts from ALL the energy tech, research, investment, and policy fields, from academia, govt, building services, national grid, generators, power stations, renewable energy, low carbon, housing, etc )
Claverton has been working for a number of years with the leading publishing company in power generation and energy, PMIG Ltd, which has consistently sponsored the Claverton Energy Group’s energy speakers at a number of prestigious London venues. PMIG publishes Worldwide Independent Power, UK Power News, Middle East Power, Euro Power News, Africa Power News, Independent Power Asia, and American Power News.
This is a unique opportunity to get together with other experts and colleagues from the energy and power sectors for an exchange of views and to hear cross-cutting papers on topics such as:
- UK Energy policy
- Heating with renewable energy
- Britain’s nuclear future – 12 reactors recently announced
- Energy storage with renewable energy
- The role of hydrogen in the energy mix
- Engine power generation as standby and peakers
- hydrogen and ammonia engines and turbines
- Energy storage systems
- The role of nuclear energy
- Marine main propulsion? Hydrogen or batteries?
- CHP developments – has it a future?
- How will Britain be heated – Nuclear CHP heat, engine-based combined heat and power, hydrogen, individual heat pumps, or large-scale district heating with heat pumps?
- What fuels will standby, chp generators, main power be using in the future – biofuels, H2, landfill biogas, ammonia, hydrogen?
- What is the role of trans-European interconnectors for nuclear or renewables?
- Is 100% renewable power possible?
- Are nuclear energy and renewable energy compatible?
If you can offer a paper, please send a few lines of description with a title and brief synopsis to dave.andrews@claverton-energy.com as per the provisional speaker list below. If not please pass to a colleague who may be interested. Also if you wish to attend please sent an email to dave.andrews@claverton-energy.com
If you are part of a commercial organization, you may also wish to have a stand at the associated exhibition if so email dave.andrews@claverton-energy.com
Backed by Claverton Energy Group and WorldWide Independent Power magazines, this event will also feature a parallel exhibition of 40 + Leading companies and Associations from the Combined Heat & Power, District Heat, Heat Pumps, Fast Reserve Generators, Generator & Critical Power sectors. Those exhibiting include Caterpillar Inc. Generator Power, Bergen Engines UK, Wernick Power Solutions, Cummins, Clarke Energy, Aksa, Crestchic, Durr Universal, HMS Industrial Networks, Industrial Power Systems, IPU Group, Leroy Somer, |NIDEC, Mecc Alte, BGGUK, Scania, MHM Group, Volvo and many more.
Space is limited so book now.
With kind regards
Dave Andrews
Claverton Group of Energy Experts.
Link to provisional speaker list:
Technical Presentations from Practitioners, Academia Manufacturers, and other experts – Provisional Speaker List:
1. 100% zero carbon energy for the UK – Cost and feasibility? Professor Mark Barrett, UCL3. Energy modeling of UKs optimum energy supply system under various scenarios – chp, nuclear, heat pumps, hydrogen etc (provisional title)
Professor Barrett will talk about his group’s optimization studies of the least cost route to sustainable low carbon, heat, and power for the building, automotive, marine and power sectors. mark.barrett@ucl.ac.uk
2. ‘Nuclear Power: Past present and future’ the full nuclear story, warts and all:
Professor David Elliott. Open University. Prof Elliot has just completed a book for the Institute of Physics with that title. https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-5152-2
3. On-demand low-pressure hydrogen gas perfect feed gas for Fuel Cells.
A 2/3rd Methanol and 1/3rd H2O mix through a unique reformer can deliver low pressure hyrogen gas on demand. The H2 mix is a low-pressure gas for PEM Fuel Cells. Fuel cell anodes are immune to trace methanol unlike trace ammonia which is very harmful. These will deliver H2 gas for loads between 50kW to 500kW equivalent. This technology is being rolled out in shipping and large trucks/trains. Methanol can be synthesized using renewables. Its applications are only beginning to be realised.
Dave McGrath. EcoCabin, Ecosse Grampian Energy Services, Aonach Architectural Energy Services, Kingswells, Aberdeen Mob: +44 (0) 7768 230451 E: djm@grampianenergy.com
4. How to install heat pumps correctly, so they work properly and have a good winter and seasonal COP
Brendon Uys, Managing Director, Heacol. info@heacol.co.uk
5. Marine Cloud Brightening
Stephen Salter. Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. 0131 650 5704 or 662 1180.
Getting to zero emissions is highly desirable but totally inadequate on its own, because it will leave behind all that we have released so far PLUS all we will release between now and the zero date. Progress since the Stockholm Earth Summit in 1972 has not been encouraging. In parallel with reductions, we could use an idea by Latham to increase the reflectivity of clouds by increasing the concentration of cloud condensation nuclei to exploit the Twomey effect. The presentation will explain physics and engineering.
6. National Grid and low carbon future
Speaker from National Grid – to be announced
7. Britain’s nuclear future.
Speaker from the nuclear industry – – to be announced
8. Beyond space heating and cooling – Professor Bill Bordass
A century or more ago, space conditioning was progressively turned into a commodity. For example, in Air-conditioning America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), Gail Cooper describes the outcome of a battle between advocates of natural and mechanical systems in New York in the 1920s:
“When the natural climate was the ideal, mechanical systems were found wanting, but when quantitative standards … became the measure, natural climate was found wanting.
When no town could deliver an ideal climate, all towns became potential markets.” – GAIL COOPER,
As comfort (often simplified to air temperature) became increasingly dependent on energy-hungry systems, occupants lost skills and abilities to adapt, while many buildings (both old and new) became progressively worse at moderating the indoor climate naturally. The wisdom of this is now being questioned.
But is the concept of space-conditioning itself beyond its sell-by date? The speaker will explore some principles and possible solutions. bill@bordass.com
9. Heat Networks: recent progress and their future potential as part of decarbonizing heat
Dr Andrew Cripps. Technical Director in the Clean Heat team at Triple Point Investment Management
Triple Point are the lead of a team who are the Delivery Partner for HNIP and GHNF, two major BEIS funded capital programmes to support heat networks in England. They form part of the broader Heat Networks Transformation Programme seeking to grow the share of heat supplied through networks from around 3% today to 15-20% by 2050. Through this work he has insight from over 40 projects being planned or built in the UK at present. In this presentation he will share learnings from the technologies used, approaches taken and scale of networks, and how this might progress in future. Andrew.Cripps@triplepoint.co.uk E Andrew.Cripps@triplepoint.co.uk W www.tp-heatnetworks.org
10. District Heating for Most of the UK; Far Better than Hydrogen
Gordon Taylor, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.I.Mech.E. Chartered Mechanical Engineer gordon@energypolicy.co.uk District heating with hot water is the best match for most of the UK heat load, whereas hydrogen would incur significant conversion and mismatch losses. See my Submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on Hydrogen. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/19815/pdf/
11. HP with DH, CHP and heat pumps, running the BEIS SRBI project to deliver open control systems for renewables including a number of field trials from domestic installs through to heat networks. This includes a few flavours of heat pump including CO2
Richard Hanson-Graville <admin@heatweb.com> We are running the BEIS SRBI project to deliver open control systems for renewables including a number of field trials from domestic installs through to heat networks. This includes a few flavours of heat pump including CO2. They will be fully documented, hydraulically and controls, and there will be real-time data from them all made public so its not based on opinions. (Historically a number of heat pump manufacturers have used us for training on integrating their kit into wider systems, and we have done thousands of domestic systems covering nearly all makes). At least one field trial will include CHP, again all open and documented with data.
12. Renewables and flexibility markets
Colin Mallett. I have attached a recent paper which would form the basis of my contribution to your conference. However, as this topic is moving very fast, I always create papers from scratch. colin.mallett@btinternet.com
13. Tidal Energy Generation in the Bristol Channel: West Somerset Lagoon
Roger Falconer DSc(Eng) FREng ForMemCAE FEurASc FLSW. Emeritus Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering. Hydro-environmental Research Centre. School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK. Mobile: +44(0)-7775-640468. FalconerRA@cardiff.ac.uk
Roger will talk about the opportunities and benefits of tidal range energy and present the case for tidal energy being a key part of the energy mix. By way of presenting his case, he will use the proposed West Somerst Lagoon as an example to illustrate many of his points.
14. building simulation/prediction of thermal performance and energy use
Eoin Clancy. Lecturer in the Dept. of Mechanical & Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Dundalk Institute of Technology, County Louth, Ireland. Eoin Clancy <em.clancy@hotmail.com>,
15. Whole-firm transition to working to fully sustainably & to a competitive advantage within environmental and Climate limits – For BMP, after submitting a possibly significant claim to the Serious Fraud Office that has held us back a long time, our interest is communicating the power of commercially advantageous, Sustainability Transition.
Ross King <ross.king@csem.org.uk. For example, a global, top three property/ construction/ building company with whom we have worked for over a decade, estimates that a universal Sustainability Transition training process over the next 7-10 years is likely to cut emissions and increase profitability by 90-100% and leave it steadily able to work both ecologically sustainably and more profitably than its main competition.
No matter where a firm starts or is now, a universal management process is consistent with, for example, work it has done on the ISO Environmental & Energy Management Standards, and just lifts it to another level that is also consistent with zero Climate Change and ecological damage and increasing commercial advantage. It also makes staff and stakeholders at all levels a lot happier.
I and three colleagues have led such developmental training processes (real site/ real time/ hands-on) on over 60 sites for mostly blue-chip operations including BA, BP, the RAF…
16. How an Exergetic, Second Law of Thermodynamic analysis can optimise energy resources.
Willam Orchard, Orchard Ptnrs
17. Sustainable Biomass Fuel for C21 Owes Much To UK Investment in C20
Tom Jarman. Director, Biocentre Resources Ltd. Brief Synopsis: In the 1980’s and 1990’s the UK perfected a process to produce a high biomass, low chlorine, high CV pelletized fuel from residual waste, successfully used for many years in place of wood pellets and coal in industrial processes and boilers. With the emergence of the Waste Incineration Directive this technology all but disappeared as long-term Council contracts drove a focus on Energy from Waste plants. We now again recognize the carbon and cost benefits of a process with best-in-class OPEX, CAPEX for a high quality sustainable 90% biomass fuel. This paper looks at the process and fuel performance evidence and argues that the time has come for this technology to be rediscovered. Phone: + 44 7966 22 33 06 Email: tom@tjarman.com Skype: tomjarman Web: www.biocentreresources.co.uk Biocentre Resources Ltd Registered in England and Wales No. 13763114
18. Experience with domestic photovoltaic panels and heat pumps..
John Williamson. Ex, Senior scientist with ERA Technology Ltd williamson.john@sky.com Detailed description of the installation, costs, benefits, performance and general practice and policy implications thereof.
19. Direct air capture of CO2 for methanol – the way forward?
Marine main propulsion? Hydrogen or batteries? Neither. The only solution is carbon neutral methanol. CNP has developed technology to use Direct Air Capture and its unique, patented electrolyser to produce a synthetic methanol suitable for marine use. CMPs Chief Scientist, Dr. Dave Benton, may be available to make a contribution at your event Andy Erlam Carbon Neutral Partners andyerlam@ymail.com
20. ‘Wrong side of history’ Wake up to the hype around green hydrogen for heating
OPINION | No colour of H2 makes sense to decarbonise heating, and pretending otherwise risks delaying urgent action to slash emissions, write Richard Lowes and David Cebon
A talk along these lines – https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/wrong-side-of-history-wake-up-to-the-hype-around-green-hydrogen-for-heating/2-1-1282365
John Williamson. Ex, Senior scientist with ERA Technology Ltd williamson.john@sky.com Detailed description of the installation, costs, benefits, performance and general practice and policy implications thereof.
KEY DETAILS ABOUT PARALLEL EXHIBITION POWEREXLIVE 2022
On 8th December at the prestigious Park Plaza Hotel – Westminster – London you have the chance to immerse yourself in the world of energy experts within several key fields: Integration of Renewable Energy, Gen-Sets, Heat Pump, CHP, District Energy, Engines, Emissions, Rental, Hydrogen, Distributed Energy, Fuels, Grid Codes, Data Centres and Consultants, CHP
- 2 conferences under 1 roof in 1 day
- Slots available for 18 + high-quality power speakers
- 40 + Leading companies and Associations from the Energy, CHP, Power Generation & Critical Power sector exhibiting: Generator Power, , Bergen Engines UK, Wernick Power Solutions, Cummins, Clarke Energy, Aksa, Crestchic, Durr Universal, HMS Industrial Networks, Industrial Power Systems, IPU Group, Leroy Somer, |NIDEC, Mecc Alte, BGGUK, Scania, MHM Group, Volvo and many more.
- Networking and industry event
- Covid secure venue
- AMPS Awards for Excellence’ (black tie) event in the evening
Please visit the PowerEx Live website for more information at: www.powerexlive.co.uk
