Nicola Mingotti 
Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are intermittent, and this leads to the need for substantial energy storage. At times of excessive generation, some of the renewable energy might be converted into hydrogen and stored underground. The hydrogen will then be recovered and used when the renewable sources produce insufficient energy. A recent
Professor Alex Routh has long been interested in colloidal suspensions, and today he told us about some of his recent work in the field. When a pool of fluid containing a suspension of particles is left to dry, the liquid slowly evaporates and the particles consolidate into a solid, which eventually cracks. We can see
Professor Yulong Ding visited us from the University of Birmingham today, and gave the first seminar of Lent term. The title of the seminar was: “Multiphase Transport Phenomena and Energy Process Intensification”. He started by talking about a few energy storage techniques which have been developed by his group over the years, including liquid air