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Advancing Environmental Solutions: An Overview of CASE and its Impact on Sustainability

Join Sam McCloskey, Director of CASE, as he shares insights on his educational background, professional experience, and ongoing research initiatives aimed at enhancing sustainability. With over 17 years in environmental consulting and a focus on integrated management systems, Sam leads projects that align academic research with industry needs. This session will highlight the collaborative efforts in renewable energy, waste treatment, and biomass energy conversion, showcasing CASE's mission to drive innovative solutions for environmental challenges.

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Advancing Environmental Solutions: An Overview of CASE and its Impact on Sustainability

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  1. Information Session Sam McCloskey, Director CASE

  2. Contents

  3. An introduction to me…… Education / Qualifications • BSc Environmental Science (UUC) • MSc Agricultural Systems (Reading) • Chartered Environmentalist • Lead EMS Auditor, Principal Environmental Auditor Work History • Consultant for 17 years • Regional Director at WYG • Environment, Health & Safety, Quality, Sustainability • CASE since November 2011

  4. A ‘potted’ history…..cont…. Skills / Example Projects • Integrated Management Systems • Sustainability Assessments • Training – IEMA, IOSH accredited Voluntary Positions • Vice Chair – Workspace Board of Directors • IEMA Regional Steering Group Construction companies & quarries, Invest NI frameworks, B9, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust,

  5. An Introduction to CASE • £10M Centre for industry driven research • Potential £5M funding over 5 years from Invest NI • Additional leveraged funding • Up to 75% funding for collaborative research projects • Will fund research projects only • Aligns renewable energy expertise at QUB / UU / AFBI with the research needs of participating companies

  6. Governance / StructureOur Research Priorities INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD APPLIED TECHNOLOGY UNIT CASE STEERING GROUP RESEARCH COMMITTEE QUESTOR MANAGER CASE DIRECTOR Environmental Monitoring Water & WW Treatment Waste & Remediation Energy from Biomass Turbines Demand Side Management

  7. Demand Side Management • Smart-grid challenges: Voltage control; Real and Reactive power control • Generation: Device characteristics of emerging distributed generation (DG) technologies • Storage technologies: “The maximum demand in the province is around 1,800MW, but on a summer night, it is around only 600MW. If it is a windy summer night and there is 1,500/1,600 MW of wind, it cannot be used because there is nowhere for the power generated from it to go. (DETI Barriers report, quoting NIE)

  8. Turbine Development, Manufacture & Decommissioning • Wind, wave and tidal turbines • Improved design and manufacture: whole life cycle, carbon footprint; use of composites - new materials, fibres, hybrids • Resource and site characterisation: modelling& measurement • Technology breakthroughs: blade technology/manufacture; materials; gear boxes; generator technology Source: Marine Current Turbines

  9. Energy from Biomass • Solid biomass to energy via thermal routes: holistic approach from production to end-use ensuring consistent, high quality fuel; technology optimised for biomass resource. • Anaerobic Digestion: evaluation of wastes, manures and energy crops including grass silage – a potential 200-300MWe; technology optimisation and efficiency improvement. • Biogas upgrading & energy conversion:developments in upgrading and processing of biogas and the onward use of the biomethane in fuel cells or conversion to liquid biofuels.

  10. Companies Already Engaged

  11. Typical R&D Project – Triple T! • 1/10th scale testing • Array – tidal turbines • Montgomery Lake & Strangford Lough • RPS, Pure Marine Gen, Sengenia, Creative Composites & Oceanflow Energy • QUB – Professor Trevor Whittaker, Dr. BjoernElsaesser • £170,000 Grant for R&D – Invest NI • WORLD FIRST happening in Northern Ireland!

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