Research
Research grants
KEL09/09 - Opto-acoustic monitors for condition assessment
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2010 - March 2011
Transformer Insulating Oil.
ENW LTD (UK)
June 2010 - August 2016
An optical fibre energised hybrid command module for HV switchgear and other power monitoring applications.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2000 - June 2003
Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2012 - March 2017
The detection, assessment and alleviation of pain in laboratory zebrafish.
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REP, REF AND RED OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH (NC3RS)
November 2012 - April 2016
Merton intelligent operating systems (MIMS).
LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON (UK)
August 2004 - September 2011
Clean accessible transport for community Health (CATCH).
LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL (UK)
September 2003 - July 2005
Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply (ARCOES)
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2011 - October 2017
HOMES: High-efficiency Off-grid Multi-source Electrical Supplies
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, INNOVATE UK (UK), POWER SYSTEMS WAREHOUSE LTD (UK)
March 2010 - May 2012
Testing of a non-SF6 interrupter
ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (USA)
March 2011 - July 2013
SF6 Emission Monitoring with Mass Spectrometry.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2003 - March 2006
University of Liverpool Institutional Discipline Bridging.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2003 - October 2006
Optical detection of the degeneration of transformer oil
ENW LTD (UK), THE JOULE CENTRE (UK)
November 2008 - December 2010
Intelligent Monitoring using rapid image capture and telematics.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 1999 - February 2001
Enhanced Management and Performance for a Sustainable UK Energy Infrastructure (Supergen V)
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2006 - October 2010
Hi-CAES: High Performance Compressed Air Energy Storage Elevated through High-Temperature Thermal Storage
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2022 - August 2024
Arc Simulation and Study of Thermal Interruption Performance Criterion and Ranking of Potential SF6 Alternative Gases
XI’AN HIGH VOLTAGE APPARATUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CHINA) 🚩
September 2021 - August 2026
Landing Advances for a New Decade (LANDOne)
INNOVATE UK (UK)
April 2022 - March 2026
Suitability Assessment of Type Testing Procedures against SF6-free Switchgear (SATPaSS)
NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PLC (UK)
September 2025 - August 2026
Role of energy storage in enhancing operation and stability performance of sustainable power systems (RESTORES).
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2014 - June 2017
Field Testing of a Mobile Phone Based Bilirubin Monitor: Phase 2 - Field testing with TMMHRC at Hospitals in India.
THENGANA MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE (INDIA)
April 2015 - December 2016
Development of PC-based chromatic system for optically monitoring and characterisation of transform oil degradation
TNB RESEARCH SDN BHD (MALAYSIA)
October 2015 - December 2016
Fostering Improved Training Tools For Responsible Research and Innovation FIT4RRI
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
May 2017 - October 2020
Liverpool 5G
INNOVATE UK (UK)
April 2018 - September 2019
Liverpool 5G Create
DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT (UK)
September 2020 - September 2022
The Development, Implementation and Verification of a Full High Voltage Gas-Blast Circuit Breaker Simulation Model based on ANSYS FLUENT
HENAN PINGGAO ELECTRIC CO LTD (CHINA) 🚩
July 2018 - May 2021
LCR 4 START SENSOR CITY
DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (UK)
October 2019 - September 2022
Research collaborations
Professor B Hon
Force measurement on tools used for micro machining. Joint supervision of a PhD student.
Dr Stephen Gordon
Monitoring of particulates produced by kerosene and wood fuel stoves.
Professor Field
Monitoring the particulate content of smoke produced by cigarettes. Involves the use on novel mobile phone technology and embedded software applications for monitoring. The work is in collaboration with the Roy Castle Cancer Foundation.