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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor well over a year now I have been trying to supplement my research income with new grants (mostly renewable energy, but also machine design, biomedicine, machine manufacture). This has started to pay off now, as I have won a number of really interesting projects. Some of the details are embargoed, but in summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1, Feasibility study of installing tidal energy at a local site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2, Working with wave energy developer to try out a new generator. Mocean Energy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3, Working with a major player in the UK electric motor supply chain to look at loss modelling of SMC components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4, Working with a drives company on technology behind high speed units<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5, A major Capital expenditure programme from the industrial stratergy fund. Various publications have gone live during lockdown, including Development and Testing of a Novel Cylindrical Permanent Magnet Linear Generator DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>10.1109\/TIA.2020.2990114<\/a> ,\u00a0 Manufacturing Challenges of a Modular Transverse Flux Alternator for Aerospace https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/en13164275<\/strong><\/a> and A study of a speed amplified linear generator for low-frequency wave energy conversion (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ymssp.2020.107226<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have also agreed to be guest editor on a special edition journal on generators for wave energy converters https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/energies\/special_issues\/permanent_magnet_machines_wave_energy_converters<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The world is slowing down\u2026.so I can summarise most of 2020 into one post. As we move towards a high TRL design, progress for some of our work has slowed down as we all evacuated campus in March 2020. During lockdown I have done virtual open day (study at Newcastle ? https:\/\/youtu.be\/z1SrDCetrDE), virtual graduation, (good … Continue reading 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2020\/11\/special-edition-1024x590.png\")
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