The Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) facility at Aston Univeristy is a focus for innovation in biomass production and the utilisation for renewable power, heat, transport fuels, hydrogen and chemicals. Equipment such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy machine (XPS), a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and a Bioreactor Suite. are included in the EBRI capabities. EBRI now represents a UK, if not European, leading facility with a unique concentration of equipment needed for...

The Quantum Technology Centre, based in Lancaster University’s Physics Department, establish a significant technology presence in the Northwest. Our world class facilities include a class 100 and two class 1000 clean rooms housing state-of-the-art nanofabrication equipment. The facilities provide the possibility to run multi-step nanofabrication processes to build electronic, photonic and nanomechanical devices and structures with a feature size as small as 10 nm. It allows processing of metals...

Promoting growth and acceleration in the development and exploitation of technologies for the energy market. The new Energy Centre at Thornton provides a flexible place where industry and academia come together to innovate, develop and demonstrate new intelligent energy technologies.

The facility seeks to promote growth and acceleration in the development and exploitation of technologies for the energy market, examples of technologies include:

• New types of photovoltaic solar cells
• Innova...

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is a group of industry-led manufacturing research and development facilities transforming skills, productivity and innovation in Scotland helping to make the country a global leader in advanced manufacturing.  

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland in Renfrewshire. It is operated by the University of Strathclyde and supported by Scottish Government, Scottish...

Energy House Laboratories consists for 4 laboratories focused on research in domestic energy consumption. This covers issues including, fabric performance, building physics, internal environments, digital (smart meters) and other related technical areas. This has focused on retrofit, but new investment will open this to include new build properties. The team look at the performance of systems, as well as the methodological issues of building performance.

EHL consist of 4 labs: the Salford...

The Powertrain Research Hub focuses on the development of next-generation offshore wind powertrains, optimising their operation, reliability and performance. ORE Catapult has partnered with the University of Sheffield to support the development of future technologies for larger turbines. 

The Hub’s key objectives are:

• Reliability improvement and advanced test methodologies
• Advanced health condition monitoring and prognostic technologies
• Development of next-generation powertrain...

The Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) demonstrator at the Tyseley Energy Park (TEP), Birmingham, converts bio-waste to energy in an innovative and effective way. The technology, developed by Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Germany, converts waste biomass such as sludge, sewage and solid waste to fuels. The TEP draws together a range of different energy technologies to act as an energy and waste hub for the city of Birmingham, showing how innovative low-carbon energy technologies can be used to support...

Loughborough University have created new test facilities to develop high performance insulation materials and façade systems for improved building energy performance. Innovative building envelope systems can help to reduce building energy loads and generate electricity and heat. Non-concentrating solar thermal collectors are generally available in two forms, flat plate or evacuated tube.

Recently, a third configuration, the evacuated flat plate, has attracted interest due to the enhanced...

The Earlham Institute Advanced Training infrastructure provides a programme of events, aimed at life scientists who are engaging in increasingly data-driven research, specifically those related to -omics techniques. The increasing trend for large-scale research projects means, in areas such as genomics with fast-moving technological advancements, that higher education curricula often fails to keep pace. This leads to skills gaps in recent graduates who are often missing the vital combination of...

MFM is a CAV testbed based in the West Midlands, part of the "CAM Testbed UK" group of facilities. 

Details on the testbed can be found at https://midlandsfuturemobility.co.uk/

The goals of the testbed are to support CAV/CAM developers to cement the UK as one of the best places in the world to develop CAV technologies, addressing and capturing a reported £62Bn market for the UK.

A report by the Automotive Council (known as "GRAVITAS") highlighted 5 years ago the need for enhancement of...