Speaker: Professor Nigel Brandon, OBE FREng, Director of the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial Singapore College London
Date: Friday, 18 November 2011
Time: 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Venue: ESI Conference Room
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Block A #10-01
Singapore 119620
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Abstract:
This presentation will present the current situation with respect to energy use in the UK across a range of sectors, including power and transport, and then discuss options through which the UK is looking to reduce future carbon and other emissions. Particular attention will be placed on the role that academic research can play in this transition, and the importance of partnerships with industry both nationally and internationally. In this context, activities within the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College will be introduced, including work within the Lab’s research networks and grand challenge projects. Finally the speaker will present some of his own research work on fuel cells and energy storage as examples of energy technologies which can play an important role in future low carbon energy systems.
About the Speaker:
Professor Nigel Brandon, OBE FREng, is Director of the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London, representing around 600 researchers working across the energy landscape at the College. He joined Imperial College in 1998 following a 14-year industrial career with BP and Rolls-Royce. He is a Senior Fellow in the UK Research Council’s energy programme and was a UK Focal Point with China in energy and climate change from 2007 to 2011. His research interests focus on electrochemical power sources, in particular fuel cells and batteries. He was a founder in 2001 of Ceres Power, a UK fuel cell company now employing over 140 staff. He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2007 for his contribution to engineering leading to commercial exploitation, and the Baker Medal in 2011 for his work on microgeneration. He sits on the International Advisory Board of ERI@N.
This seminar will be held under Chatham House rules: “when a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant may be revealed.”
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