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Experimental study of liquid ammonia injection timing in rapeseed methyl ester dual injection engine (2025)
Journal Article
Nadimi, E., Przybyla, G., Wu, D., & Adamczyk, W. (2025). Experimental study of liquid ammonia injection timing in rapeseed methyl ester dual injection engine. Energy, 335, Article 137919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.137919

Ammonia, a promising carbon-free fuel, offers practical advantages over hydrogen, such as liquid-phase storage, making it suitable for direct use in compression ignition engines. As a hydrogen carrier, ammonia has the potential to decarbonise interna... Read More about Experimental study of liquid ammonia injection timing in rapeseed methyl ester dual injection engine.

A dynamic implicit 3D material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Bird, R., Pretti, G., Coombs, W., Augarde, C., Sharif, Y. U., Brown, M. J., Carter, G., Macdonald, C., & Johnson, K. (2025). A dynamic implicit 3D material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation analysis. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 126(14), Article e70080. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.70080

Accurate and robust modelling of large deformation three-dimensional contact interaction is an important area of engineering, but it is also challenging from a computational mechanics perspective. This is particularly the case when there is signific... Read More about A dynamic implicit 3D material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation analysis.

Catalytic Ammonia Combustion: Legacy Catalytic Burner Designs and Catalyst Requirements for In Situ Hydrogen Production (2025)
Journal Article
Al Sadi, K., Nadimi, E., & Wu, D. (2025). Catalytic Ammonia Combustion: Legacy Catalytic Burner Designs and Catalyst Requirements for In Situ Hydrogen Production. Energies, 18(13), Article 3505. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18133505

Ammonia is increasingly recognised as a promising carbon-free fuel and hydrogen carrier due to its high hydrogen content, ease of liquefaction, and existing global infrastructure. However, its direct utilisation in combustion systems poses significan... Read More about Catalytic Ammonia Combustion: Legacy Catalytic Burner Designs and Catalyst Requirements for In Situ Hydrogen Production.

A novel two-stage framework to improve the flexibility of grid connected wind-hydro power system in real-time operation (2025)
Journal Article
Lai, C., & Kazemtabrizi, B. (2025). A novel two-stage framework to improve the flexibility of grid connected wind-hydro power system in real-time operation. Applied Energy, 396, Article 126211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.126211

The wind-hydro hybrid power system has been proven a viable solution in helping the integration of variable wind power to the grid. While few studies consider the joint operation of the wind-hydro
power system with the power grid, even fewer extend... Read More about A novel two-stage framework to improve the flexibility of grid connected wind-hydro power system in real-time operation.

Data-driven estimation of the amount of under frequency load shedding in small power systems (2024)
Journal Article
Rajabdorri, M., Troffaes, M. C. M., Kazemtabrizi, B., Sarvarizadeh, M., Sigrist, L., & Lobato, E. (2025). Data-driven estimation of the amount of under frequency load shedding in small power systems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 139(Part B), Article 109617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109617

This paper presents a data-driven methodology for estimating under frequency load shedding (UFLS) in small power systems. UFLS plays a vital role in maintaining system stability by shedding load when the frequency drops below a specified threshold fo... Read More about Data-driven estimation of the amount of under frequency load shedding in small power systems.

Hybrid renewable energy systems for sustainable power supply in remote location: Techno-economic and environmental assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Roy, D., Wang, R., Roy, S., Smallbone, A., & Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Hybrid renewable energy systems for sustainable power supply in remote location: Techno-economic and environmental assessment. Energy Conversion and Management: X, 24, Article 100793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100793

Electricity supply is inconsistent and unreliable in many remote areas of India, where depending solely on a single renewable energy source is impractical. In this context, this study investigates the potential of off-grid hybrid renewable energy sys... Read More about Hybrid renewable energy systems for sustainable power supply in remote location: Techno-economic and environmental assessment.

Characterisation of anchor penetration behaviour for Cable burial risk assessment (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharif, Y. U., Brown, M. J., Coombs, W. M., Augarde, C. E., Bird, R. E., Carter, G., Macdonald, C., & Johnson, K. R. (2023, September). Characterisation of anchor penetration behaviour for Cable burial risk assessment. Presented at 9th Int. SUT OSIG Conference “Innovative Geotechnologies for Energy Transition”, London, UK

Offshore wind (OSW) power cable failure currently accounts for 75% of the cost of all insurance claims associated with OSW projects and faults typically take 100+ days to rectify. The most effective method for protecting the cables from anchor damage... Read More about Characterisation of anchor penetration behaviour for Cable burial risk assessment.

Inclusion of frequency nadir constraint in the unit commitment problem of small power systems using machine learning (2023)
Journal Article
Rajabdorri, M., Kazemtabrizi, B., Troffaes, M., Sigrist, L., & Lubato, E. (2023). Inclusion of frequency nadir constraint in the unit commitment problem of small power systems using machine learning. Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 36, Article 101161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.segan.2023.101161

As the intention is to reduce the amount of thermal generation and to increase the share of clean energy, power systems are increasingly becoming susceptible to frequency instability after outages due to reduced levels of inertia. To address this iss... Read More about Inclusion of frequency nadir constraint in the unit commitment problem of small power systems using machine learning.

Inclusion of Frequency Stability Constraints in Unit Commitment Using Separable Programming (2021)
Journal Article
Ferrandon-Cervantes, C., Kazemtabrizi, B., & Troffaes, M. (2022). Inclusion of Frequency Stability Constraints in Unit Commitment Using Separable Programming. Electric Power Systems Research, 203, Article 107669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2021.107669

In this paper we address the problem of frequency stability in the unit commitment (UC) optimisation process. We include a set of appropriately defined frequency stability constraints in the UC problem formulation for operational planning scenarios i... Read More about Inclusion of Frequency Stability Constraints in Unit Commitment Using Separable Programming.