Our assessment of cleaning procedures in use in local microbreweries has now been published.
Investigating CIP chemical, water, and energy use: a comparative study of SOP for UK North East microbreweries, Harry Laing, Steve Bull, Sharon Joyce and Chris O’Malley, J. Brewing and Distilling, 10 (2021) 17-28.
Assessment of the household energy demand underpinning the case for solar photovoltac investment in Africa is the subject of a new paper.
Potential of households’ solar PV consumption in South Africa, Silas K. Mulaudzi, Steve Bull and Rudzani A. Makhado, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (2021) 1-10.
Our work on the combined effects of fatigue loading on the lifetime of materials for offshore structures is now published. This is part of ongoing work on the development of tidal turbines for renewable energy generation.
Fatigue Damage Analysis of GFRP Composites Using Digital Image Correlation, H.I Gonabadi, A. Oila, A. Yadav and S.J. Bull, J. Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 7 (2021) 25-40.
Our work of reducing chemomechanical effects by ion beam treatments has bow been published:
Investigation of Chemomechanical Effects on Sapphire Surfaces Modified by Ion- implantation-induced Carbon Impurities, A. Yadav, N. Moharrami and S.J. Bull, J. Bio- Tribo-corrosion., (2021) 7:52.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40735-021-00490-y.
Today I attended the first annual celebration meeting for the North East Institute of Technology (NEIOT) at New College Durham, the first in-person I have been to in over a year! The IOTs are collaborations between local FE colleges, Universities and Industry employers aimed at training the technical support that will be needed in the coming years. In the North East we are focussing on advanced manufacturing, construction and digital skills.
An explanation of IOTs can be found at https://youtu.be/Mis2YMNJvos