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Assessing the Energy Generation and Economics of Combined Solar PV and Wind Turbine-Based Systems with and without Energy Storage—Scottish Perspective

Journal Article
Muneer, T., Alam, M., & Dowell, R. (2023)
Assessing the Energy Generation and Economics of Combined Solar PV and Wind Turbine-Based Systems with and without Energy Storage—Scottish Perspective. New Energy Exploitation and Application, 2(2), 30-42. https://doi.org/10.54963/neea.v2i2.170
Solar PV and wind energy conversion are now so economical that they compete head-on with all forms of fossil fuel and nuclear energy conversion. In view of climate change and ...

The Coming of Age of Solar and Wind Power

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Muneer, T., Jadraque Gago, E., & Etxebarria Berrizbeitia, S. (2022)
The Coming of Age of Solar and Wind Power. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92010-4
This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and desc...

Excel-VBA: From Solving Mathematical Puzzles to Analysing Complex Engineering Problems

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Muneer, T., & Ivanova, S. (2022)
Excel-VBA: From Solving Mathematical Puzzles to Analysing Complex Engineering Problems. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94085-0
This compact text is a powerful introduction to the Excel/VBA computing environment. The book presents some of the most useful features of Excel. First by introducing mathemat...

Modelling of a Large Solar PV Facility: England’s Mallard Solar Farm Case Study

Journal Article
Muneer, T., Gul, M. S., & Alam, M. (2022)
Modelling of a Large Solar PV Facility: England’s Mallard Solar Farm Case Study. Energies, 15(22), Article 8609. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228609
With reference to energy generation, the global society has to urgently address three factors that are now critical: sustainability in terms of climate change, security in ter...

Potential for renewable energy–assisted harvesting of potatoes in Scotland

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Muneer, T., & Dowell, R. (2022)
Potential for renewable energy–assisted harvesting of potatoes in Scotland. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 17, 469-481. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctac012
Depleting energy resources, enhancing energy security and energy access and approaching climate change related challenges are some of the present day challenges. Against this ...

Ground view factor computation model for bifacial photovoltaic collector field: uniform and non-uniform surfaces

Journal Article
Alam, M., Gul, M. S., & Muneer, T. (2021)
Ground view factor computation model for bifacial photovoltaic collector field: uniform and non-uniform surfaces. Energy Reports, 7, 9133-9149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.11.206
The photovoltaic collectors in a field are subject to three types of solar radiation: direct, diffuse, and reflected irradiance. The reflected irradiance received by solar pho...

Effect of Land Use/Cover Changes on Urban Cool Island Phenomenon in Seville, Spain

Journal Article
Jadraque Gago, E., Etxebarria Berrizbeitia, S., Pacheco Torres, R., & Muneer, T. (2020)
Effect of Land Use/Cover Changes on Urban Cool Island Phenomenon in Seville, Spain. Energies, 13(12), https://doi.org/10.3390/en13123040
This paper analyses Seville’s surface urban heat island (SUHI) phenomenon, comparing spatial and temporal patterns of land surface temperature (LST) during July 1987, 2000 and...

Efficient Routines for Obtaining Radiation View-Factor for Non-Uniform Horizons

Journal Article
Muneer, T., & Ivanova, S. (2020)
Efficient Routines for Obtaining Radiation View-Factor for Non-Uniform Horizons. Energies, 13(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102551
There are a large number of engineering applications wherein estimation of radiation exchange between surfaces is required. One important part of the latter procedure is to ob...

Empirical Models for the Estimation of Solar Sky-Diffuse Radiation. A Review and Experimental Analysis

Journal Article
Berrizbeitia, S. E., Jadraque Gago, E., & Muneer, T. (2020)
Empirical Models for the Estimation of Solar Sky-Diffuse Radiation. A Review and Experimental Analysis. Energies, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030701
Accurate solar radiation data are essential for the development of solar energy application systems. The limited availability of solar radiation data, and especially diffuse i...

Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions

Journal Article
Robinson, S., Papadopoulos, S., Jadraque Gago, E., & Muneer, T. (2019)
Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions. Energies, 12(24), 4722. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12244722
The island of Sark, located in the English Channel, has endured an electricity distribution crisis for the past few years, resulting in high electricity costs almost six times...
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Accelerating the Electric Vehicle Revolution

2021 - 2022
The proposed project includes two activities: a two-day event and a public opinion survey. The event, which will be hybrid, will target both secondary school students and adults through individual act...
Funder: Scottish Government

Renewables to Potatoes Cold Storage for Energy Efficient Agriculture

2019 - 2019
Cononsyth Farm currently has renewable power generation through a wind turbine (330 kWp) and solar array (100 kWp). The farm also has significant cooling needs, in this case due to potato storage shed...
Funder: Energy Technology Partnership | Value: £4,672

Enerwater

2014 - 2018
This project involves the research and development of novel systems to recover and re-distribute energy in food processing and manufacturing premises, especially where there are demands for refrigerat...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £273,525

Mainstreaming Innovation - CiC Online

2013 - 2014
The project aims to reduce carbon emissions through research and application of integrated sustainable infrastructure in the existing built environment that could be replicated on existing and new bui...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £8,328

Research in Slovenia on Sustainable Transport in Slovenia

2013 - 2014
To compare the vehicular driving cycle of a small town in an EU member state against the standard EU cycle and obtain the primary energy requirements for road transport. Furthermore, to explore the sa...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,740

Reducing the Greenhouse effect through Alternative Industrial Estates Mgt

2013 - 2015
Energy use in buildings is one of the biggest contributors to UK carbon emissions, and low carbon refurbishment of existing buildings is one of the key ways to reduce this impact. This research propos...
Funder: Energy Technology Partnership | Value: £10,193

The use & benefits of high efficacy LED lighting in education facilities

2012 - 2012
The feasibility study will cover analysis of the use of high efficacy LED’s as a main source of lighting and the most suitable forms and types of LED to be incorporated into low cost lighting fixtures
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Reduction and eradication of fuel poverty

2012 - 2012
Project to provide the services of a solar PV expert (TRI) to work with an external partner to help them to design, test, deliver, and evaluate a model focused on using existing and new PV technologie...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £5,000

Heat Pump COP

2011 - 2012
Explores the increase in COP of a heat pump by using a roof-top thermal solar collector. As part of this work the threshold coefficient of performance required to make the financial and environmental ...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £5,000

Decentralised Energy

2009 - 2015
As 80% of about 1.6 billion people who lacked access to electricity in the world in 2005 reside in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and given the importance of energy in achieving the Millennium Dev...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £68,288

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Performance and environmental sustainability assessment of an integrated solar water heater designed for disassembly, under Scottish weather conditions

2016 - 2021
"In the field of solar thermal technology there a...
Ruth Saint | Director of Studies: Prof John Currie | Second Supervisor: Dr Celine Garnier

Optimisation of an electroless co-deposited solid oxide fuel cell anode

2015 - date
This PhD project is on the optimisation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC’s) electrodes produced via Electroless Co-Deposition (ECD...
Rob Turnbull | Director of Studies: Dr Neil Shearer | Second Supervisor: Dr Callum Wilson

The development of a numerical temperature algorithm to predict the indoor temperature of an electric vehicle's cabin space

2014 - 2018
The demand for the electric vehicle has increased as the automobile industry,...
Aisling Doyle | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Dr Zuansi Cai

Critical evaluation of the electric vehicle for sustainable mobility

2012 - 2017
Ross Milligan | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Prof Ian Smith

The evaluation of data filtering criterial in wind turbine power performance assessment

2012 - 2019
Dr Brian Davison | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

Energy delivery of solar farms with reference to shading

2012 - 2019
Michael Jeffrey | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Prof Ian Smith

The potential for 'green' fiscal policy measures to influence individuals' vehicle purchasing decisions in Scotland

2009 - 2015
This research focuses upon measures targeting individuals’ future vehicle purchasing ...
Dr Sarah Borthwick Saddler | Director of Studies: Michael Carreno | Second Supervisor: Kevin Cullinane

The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications

2008 - 2010
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a growing problem in the modern world and as the ...
Andrew Austin | Director of Studies: Mike Barker | Second Supervisor: John Sharp

Solar radiation related climate change projections for the UK

2008 - 2011
Yieng Wei Tham | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Dr Brian Davison

Solar thermal and photovoltaic electrical generation in Libya

2008 - 2012
This thesis investigates the application of large scale concentrated solar (CSP) and photovoltaic power plants in Libya. Direct Steam Gene...
Yasser Aldali | Director of Studies: Dr Douglas Henderson | Second Supervisor: Prof Tariq Muneer

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