BEE Seminar April 2023

Wednesday 19^th April 2023 – SRB C10 from 11am

Light lunch will follow after the presentations

 

“Progress on controllable supercooled PCM, and load-shifting potential in building applications”

by Cagri Kutlu |Research Fellow

 

Biography:

Cagri Kutlu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Building, Energy and Environment research group at the University of Nottingham. He holds PhD in Sustainable Energy Technologies from the University of Nottingham in 2020. His research interests are refrigeration and air conditioning, solar thermal power systems, heat storage and demand-based system modelling.

“Thermal energy storage enhanced windcatcher system for hybrid cooling and ventilation in buildings”

by Olamide Eso |Ph.D. Researcher

Olamide completed her master's degree in architecture in Nigeria and is now pursuing a PhD in sustainable energy technology at the Building, Energy and Environment research group in University of Nottingham UK. Her research interests are in building physics, energy efficient buildings, low-carbon technologies/buildings and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for the built environment. Having lived in a tropical country for a while and experienced the hot indoor conditions associated with the climate, her concern had always been how to achieve sustainable cooling in buildings.  This prompted her to pursue a PhD with a focus on optimising the cooling, ventilation, and thermal storage performance of a novel Windcatcher system for buildings. The novel system is designed to operate entirely off-grid as a low-energy hybrid-passive ventilative cooling system, enhanced with thermal energy storage capabilities. She is currently running some CFD models to conduct her investigations towards achieving this objective, using experimental data from literature to validate the model.