Energy Management Group
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Merchant Venturers Building
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UB
United Kingdom
T +44 117 954 5499
F +44 117 954 5206
E energy-management
@bristol.ac.uk
The University of Bristol offers its teaching in a research environment. The Energy Management Group contributes to this effort by organising undergraduate laboratory work in facilities where its members are carrying out full-time research. This results in the undergraduate courses being informed by our research work and it ensures the undergraduate courses are up-to-date.
Final year students undertake an individual research project. Many of these are in the area of energy management and are supported by the research facilities of the group. The group also supports group research projects on the Engineering Design program.
Every year there are a number of opportunities to undertake research leading to the degree of PhD. A pass at least at the 2.1 level is required to undertake a PhD. Details of current opportunities can be found here.
The Group, in conjunction with Control Techniques Ltd, has recently completed a new undergraduate electrical machines, drives and control laboratory exercise. The objective of the laboratory exercise is to enable students to obtain practical, hands-on experience with industrial standard equipment and to gain insight into the type of research conducted by the EEMG. The laboratory experiment, which represents an investment of more than £200,000, is designed to support three undergraduate units that are available to students from across the Faculty of Engineering and will highlight the applications of electrical actuation and control systems in a variety of engineering disciplines.
Each set of laboratory equipment consists of a 4kW dynamometer controlled using Control Techniques’ UnidriveSP. With significant support from Control Techniques Dynamics, Fluke and HBM, each dynamometer set has a permanent magnet machine coupled to an induction machine through an HBM T5/20 torque transducer. In addition, each dynamometer is equipped with a state-of-the-art Fluke Norma 4000 power analyser, which enables full system analysis.
