About the Project
3.5 years
Urban energy systems play a crucial role in the economic, social and environmental performance of large towns and cities in both China and the UK. This PhD project is part of the EPSRC UK-China project ‘Multi-Energy Control of Cyber-Physical Urban Energy Systems (MC2)’, which focuses on sustainable, cost effective and reliable urban power supply.
Operational flexibility is an important property of electric power systems and plays a
crucial role for the transition of today’s fossil fuel-based power systems towards those that can efficiently accommodate high shares of intermittent renewable energy sources. This project focuses on the quantification and provision of flexibility from industrial energy systems. The detailed models of integrated multi-energy systems and production processes in industrial plants will be investigated. Maximisation of flexibility provision from individual industrial plants will be studied. Both centralised and decentralised coordination methods will be investigated for flexibility provision from multiple industrial plants, especially for independent local control and the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-based peer-to-peer coordination.
Digital twins of industrial energy systems will be studied to collect information and apply advanced simulation and analysis methods to gain real-time insights about the performance of cyber-physical industrial energy systems for flexibility quantification and provision. Effective and efficient technologies will be developed for system
parameter identification of a digital twin.
Research Environment
The Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply (CIREGS) is a multidisciplinary engineering research group with international expertise in both the supply and transmission of energy, which has 1 Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, 2 IEEE Fellows and 11 academic staff. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/explore/research-units/centre-for-integrated-renewable-energy-generation-and-supply
CIREGS has a strong network and close relationship with a variety of stakeholders in the UK, EU and across the globe. The EPSRC MC2 project involves and collaborates with a wide range of academic and industrial partners in both the UK and China, such as Newcastle University, The University of Manchester, University of Bristol, Scottish Power Energy Networks, ABB, Siemens in the UK and Tsinghua University, Tianjin University and Northeast Electric Power University in China.
Training and Development Opportunities
Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Engineering and CIREGS provide a variety of training and development opportunities at different layers, aimed at various aspects of personal development, such as research skills, funding proposal writing, communication skills, dissemination skills, commercialisation training, etc. CIREGS will also provide appropriate funding support to the training and development needs identified by the student. To find out more about the Training programme for Postgraduate student go to https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/doctoral-academy
Candidates should hold a good bachelor’s degree (first class honours degree) or a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Integrated Energy Systems or other relevant areas.
Knowledge in power system / integrated energy system modelling and analysis, optimisation, cyber physical system and digital twin are desired.
Previous experience in optimisation modelling, industrial process modelling and MATLAB coding would be advantageous.
Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language (IELTS 6.5 or equivalent).
Knowledge in power system / integrated energy system modelling and analysis, optimisation, cyber physical system and digital twin are desired.
Previous experience in optimisation modelling, industrial process modelling and MATLAB coding would be advantageous.
Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language (IELTS 6.5 or equivalent).
Applicants should submit an application for postgraduate study via the Cardiff University webpages (http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/programmes/programme/engineering ) including;
• an upload of your CV
• a personal statement/covering letter
• two references (applicants are recommended to have a third academic referee, if the two academic referees are within the same department/school)
• Current academic transcripts
Applicants should select Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering), with a start date of April 2021 or July 2021.
In the research proposal section of your application, please specify the project title and supervisors of this project and copy the project description in the text box provided.
Candidates should hold a good bachelor’s degree (first class honours degree) or a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Integrated Energy Systems or other relevant areas.
In the funding section, please select "I will be applying for a scholarship / grant" and specify that you are applying for advertised funding, reference JW-PSE-21
Please contact Dr Yue Zhou ([Email Address Removed]) to informally discuss this opportunity.
Funding Notes
Tuition fees at the home/EU rate and an annual stipend equivalent to current Research Council rates (£15,285 stipend for academic year 2020/21), plus support for travel/conferences/consumables.
International students are eligible for a fee only award only.
This opportunity is available to home, EU or international candidates.
Home and EU students are eligible for a full award covering fees and stipend.
International students are eligible for a fee only award and will receive no stipend.
International students will therefore be required to cover living costs themselves and should confirm in their application that they are able to do so.
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