Directory of projects Energy Catalyst – Round 4 1 Introduction Energy markets around the world – private and public, household and industry, developed and developing – are all looking for solutions to the same problem: how to provide a resilient energy system that delivers affordable and clean energy with access for all. Solving this trilemma requires innovation and collaboration on an international scale and UK businesses and researchers are at the forefront of addressing the energy revolution. Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency. We work with business, policy-makers and the research base to help support the development of new ideas, technologies, products and services, and to help companies de-risk their innovations as they journey towards commercialisation and business growth. The Energy Catalyst was established as a national open competition, run by Innovate UK and co-funded with the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for International Development (DFID). Since 2013, the Energy Catalyst has invested almost £100m in grant funding across more than 750 organisations and 250 projects. The Energy Catalyst exists to accelerate development, commercialisation and deployment of the very best of UK energy technology and business innovation. Support from the Energy Catalyst has enabled many companies to validate their technology and business propositions, to forge key supply-chain partnerships, to accelerate their growth and to secure investment for the next stages of their business development. Affordable access to clean and reliable energy supplies is a key requirement for sustainable and inclusive economic growth. With funding through DFID’s “Transforming Energy Access” programme, the Energy Catalyst is helping UK energy innovators to forge new international partnerships, and directly address the energy access needs of poor households, communities and enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. At the same time, there is a need for local renewable energy systems to both stand-alone and integrate at different scales with grids of uncertain predictability. This provides UK innovators with unique test-beds for their energy products and business models ahead of similar opportunities in developed countries. This Directory showcases more than 100 energy innovation projects and more than 300 collaborating partner organisations we have funded in Round 4 of the Energy Catalyst Competition. An addendum is also included listing projects recently awarded funding through Round 5. Previous directories are available for the projects funded in Rounds 1, 2 and 3 of the Energy Catalyst (for links, see the Further Information at the back of this Directory). We hope the project information and company details summarised here will be a valuable resource for financial and corporate investors, supply chain partners and customers. If you see innovations or organisations here that you think may be relevant to your own interests, please feel free to get in touch directly with the named contacts provided or to make enquiries via Innovate UK or the Knowledge Transfer Network (ktn-uk.org). Michael Priestnall Innovation Lead for the Energy Catalyst [email protected] +44(0)7767 311451 www.innovateuk.gov.uk 25th January 2018 3 (MiTREC) 35 Contents Instream Tidal Energy Research (InTER) project 36 Intelligent real-time corrosion monitoring and detection on wind turbines. (iWindCr) 37 Introduction 3 Development of a plastic waste-derived World Engine for Distributed Generation fuel for industrial burner application 38 of Electricity (WEDGE) 6 Disaggregated energy-sensing for the smart grid 39 Extra-light and sustainable textile wind turbine blade 7 SmartStor 40 CROWN – Cost Reduction for Offshore Wind Now 8 Novel turbine for the optimisation of landfill gas in electricity generation 41 Solar Steam – a novel application of Fresnel lenses as a solar thermal collector to benefit industry 10 Cable Lifetime Enhancement via Monitoring using Advanced Thermal and Electrical Vertical cubic GaN LEDs on 150mm Infrastructure Sensing (CLEMATIS) 42 3C-SiC substrates 11 Liquid air Dearman engine for power India-UK Innovative Solar Cooling (Indiacool) 12 and cooling in confined spaces 43 Development of a UK-manufactured EpicTidal – establishing the performance spent fuel cask 13 implications of employing lower-cost methods for Rice straw to biogas (R2B) project 14 manufacture of large-scale tidal turbine rotors 44 Electricity and zero emissions from landfill gas 15 SCORRES – Smart Control of Rural Renewable Enhanced PD monitoring for extra-high voltage Energy and Storage 45 (EHV) cables 16 STORM – Specialised Thimbles for Offshore Bringing profitability to small-scale Renewable Marine energy 46 on-farm AD through cryogenics 17 Monolithic metal-organic framework materials Energy recovery from industrial low-grade steam 18 for exceptional natural gas uptake 47 Final development of a zero-energy Novel CBond coating to enable lightweighting dehumidification and cooling system 19 of glass products (CBond) 48 Buffalito Platform 20 Printable Hard CarbOn Electrodes for Na-Ion Demonstration of biogenic fertiliser production batteries with eXtra capacity (PHOENIX) 49 enhanced by captured carbon utilisation 21 PLAT-I feasibility and validation – floating inshore Automated spiral-wound pipe for large-scale tidal and river energy platform 50 applications 22 Novel production of renewable hydrogen from Developing a lower-cost, higher-efficiency SOFC agricultural and municipal waste – Project H-AM 51 micro-CHP system for the UK residential market 23 Storage Enabled Vehicle Charge Point (SEVCP) 52 Switchee – the smart thermostat Enhanced electrical and thermal rating power for affordable housing 24 cables for renewables connections in developing Powering Isolated Territories with countries (CABLESURE) 53 Hydrogen Energy Systems (PITCHES) 25 Smart biogas network 54 Biogenic nutrient and energy optimisation TYRELESS – integrated piezoelectric energy in anaerobic digestion 26 harvesting systems for smart truck tyre Developing and testing a new energy monitoring 55 from waste gasification feedstock 27 Development of a sustainable solid-state An online, risk driven, condition-monitoring, barocaloric cooler 56 predictive maintenance management and Response Algorithmic Enterprise (RAE) 57 design upscaling tool for marine energy Assessing the potential for smart, wireless devices (RISKMAN) 28 electricity meters in off-grid sub-Saharan Africa 58 Capacitively coupled cables for transmission 29 Feasibility study into novel 10kWe ORC integrated free piston expander 30 LNG regasification cycle 59 REFLOW: Renewable Energy from Fish Lipid GLIMPSE: novel gas leak imager Oil Waste 31 for the sector 60 Modular Tide Generators Limited 32 EMBOSSA: Energy Management in 2nd hEVen 33 Botswana and Sub-Saharan Africa 61 SOLAR SHARC®, improved energy Surface treatment of perovskite solar cell inorganic efficiency of solar PV systems via low-energy titania meso-porous substrates (STOPIT) 62 surface coatings (Always Clean) 34 UReactor™ 63 Microturbine Renewable Energy Combustor Continued over 4 Advanced Motion Systems For Intersecting Affordable biomethane production, storage Beam Implementation of Anemometric and refuelling kit for the world markets 95 LIDAR (AMFIBIAL) 64 AltEnergis self-charging portable power Extreme low-energy server cooling 66 pack technical feasibility study 96 MARLIN: modular floating platform Zero emissions H2 from natural gas 97 for offshore wind 67 Enabling CO2 sequestration using Tide Mills UK and Africa 68 Proppants Optimised for Pure Propane SMART-NoDE – sensor monitoring and reporting 70 Stimulation (ECO PrOPPS) 98 PowerBlade – blade compressor concept exploration CAKEFUEL – production of clean for power generation feasibility study 71 sustainable fuel from sewage 99 Reaching the sun with solar coins and Liquid fuels from low-grade plastic-rich wastes 100 smart solar panels 72 Lowering civil engineer costs in pumped STARFLOAT – multifloat-spar for enabling hydro energy storage 101 the economic exploitation of deep water wind 73 OPEC – Offshore Platform for Energy Engaging household energy savings Competitiveness 102 and demand response opportunities 74 Technical feasibility study to Enhancing the methane generation from food scale clean heat generator 103 waste anaerobic digestion mediated by fluidic 2DMEA 104 oscillator-generated microbubbles 75 Micro CHP – prototype 1-30 kWe Low-cost, graduated PAYG solar home engine/generator systems 105 systems for Africa 76 PINSTRIPE – Photon Increase by Splitting Blade Integrated Optics for Offshore Wind To Realise Improved Photovoltaic Efficiency 106 LIDAR (BIOFOWL) 77 Radiation Resilient Ultrasonic Sensors – RRUS 107 Robust decentralised low energy faecal sludge Testing/validation of on-vehicle Catalytic dewatering leading to sustainable energy Fuel Reformer and Emissions Reducer (CFR-ER) resource, sanitation and clean water 78 for improved combustion 108 Corrosion prediction in residual CO2 streams: EarthSave – a novel industrial waste heat shifting the paradigm 79 recovery system for pollutant removal, Solar oil – solar fuels and feeds from waste 80 water production and cooling 109 DryGro energy crops 81 A3C carbon capture 110 Natural Under-Floor Insulation System (NUFIS) 82 Basalt fibre-reinfored HDPE GravityLight – creating an affordable for wave energy converters 111 and viable off-grid energy solution