To understand how the ocean water moves, mixes, and transports heat, carbon and oxygen requires detailed chemical measurements, which are typically only available along ship tracks. A new study uses machine learning to get better, higher-resolution data.
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Every year, 300 billion rubber gloves are used in laboratories, hospitals and industry. Most are made from aqueous polymer dispersions using a dipping process. A new article studies the formation of the deposit during the electrolyte dipping process.
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Large amounts of #methane are dissolved in the deep water of Lake Kivu and might provide power to Rwanda and DR Congo in the coming decades. We are studying how methane extraction will affect the lake water and the associated risks. #Energy #CO2
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How do we deliver a low-carbon future while meeting the world’s growing energy demands? At the end of April, professors and researchers from the Institute will explore practical, scalable solutions for the energy transition. Book now to attend online.
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Wind energy supplied approximately 30% of UK electricity in 2025 and is central to the energy transition. Yabin Liu has developed a passive turbine design which reduces vortex cavitation and turbine noise, while promoting faster wake recovery.
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#Energy #Wind
A number of medical conditions, including anaemia, affect the properties of red blood cells and could be detected based on the pattern of cracks which form in drying blood droplets.
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Researchers at @uclhc.bsky.social study the similarities between the seismic activity which preceded the 2018 Sierra Negra eruption and the ongoing activity in the Campi Flegrei region.
#volcano #Risk #earthquake #Earth
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Industrial heating accounts for 14% of UK emissions, yet half of the energy used in UK industry is lost as waste heat. A new Royal Society report investigates the benefits of capturing and re-using this heat.
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Most environmental and industrial flows exist within a turbulent background: for example, wind turbines produce wakes within the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer. The turbulent nature of the background fundamentally alters the physics of entrainment.
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Decarbonisation of buildings is one of the main challenges for the energy transition. The provision of heating, cooling and ventilation can be very energy intensive. Read about some of the key fluid mechanics involved in the design of low-energy buildings
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Two new PhD opportunities are being advertised to work on data centres cooling and particle dispersal in the atmosphere. Please see the details at the link below, and apply now if interested.
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One of the challenges with modelling subsurface flows such as underground CO2 storage is the uncertainty in measurements of geological properties. A new paper models the uncertainty in permeability as a periodic perturbation to a mean value.
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In small rocky planets, the formation of iron crystals settling through the liquid core is thought to sustain compositional convection, which drives a dynamo in the core. A recent article investigates this convection using analogue laboratory experiments.
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Metal nanoparticles have been found to exsolve from metal oxides in the perovskite family under reducing conditions. By remaining partially embedded in the oxide, they show increased stability against sintering, leading to an enhanced catalytic activity.
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Conventional hydrogen electrolysers require stable power inputs and so may be unsuited to harnessing intermittent renewable power. Decoupled electrolysers are being developed, which make the system safer while reducing the need for gas purification steps.
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ATES systems provide a source of heat in the winter as well as a source of cooling in summer, by extracting warm and cold water from subsurface reservoirs . We investigate their performance in case the seasonal heating and cooling demands are different.
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Registration is now open for the 21st Cambridge Energy Masterclass. This is a two-day intensive meeting of lectures and discussions, with talks from leading experts focussing on the energy transition and new energy systems.
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Industrial clusters are some of the biggest emitters of CO2 in the UK. Among them, the Humber Cluster aims to reach net zero by 2040. Here, Professor Joe Howe discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with the decarbonisation of UK clusters.
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There was a special seminar at the Institute last night. Jon Salkeld discussed some of the key challenges of the energy transition, and offered a personal perspective based on the highs, lows and learning from his carrier.
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Large-scale storage is crucial to balance consumption and intermittent production of renewable energy. Researchers at @tudelftme.bsky.social have been modelling compressed air and hydrogen storage in underground salt caverns. Read more at the link below.
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New laboratory experiments explore the effects of a rapid change in the temperature of the ventilation air supplied to a building, with implications for the temperature profile and the dispersal of contaminants within the building.
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Wave breaking at the ocean surface generates bubbles and sea spray and transfers momentum, energy and mass between the ocean and the atmosphere. Stéphane Popinet has been modelling the ocean-atmosphere exchanges associated with breaking waves.
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Measuring the properties of molten lava during an eruption, or those of ice within a glacier, can be difficult. Mathieu Sellier has developed new mathematical and numerical tools to recover unknown parameters from remote sensing of the flow free surface.
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High concentrations of CO2 are very corrosive, and this is a problem in carbon sequestration systems. New experiments show how carbonate scale can limit the corrosion of in Carbon Capture & Storage plants
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#CarbonSequestration #CCUS #CarbonCapture #Energy
We have developed a new model of the dissolution of CO2 in an aquifer. It quantifies the maximum amount of CO2 which is dissolved and the time required for the dissolution
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@co2rehub.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social @cambridgezero.bsky.social
New, eco-friendly, sustainable microcapsules are being developed. They are engineered with a composite organic-inorganic shell. Unlike synthetic capsules, these do not contribute to the accumulation of microplastics in the environment.
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During its formation, the Earth experienced planetary impacts, with clouds of particles sinking into its molten magma. This influenced the growth of the Earth's solid core as well as the properties of its liquid mantel, thus affecting plate tectonics.
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Interseasonal thermal energy storage can provide large energy saving. A new study investigates heat storage in aquifers. The system is thermally very efficient: after just 2-3 cycles, over 90% of the thermal energy stored is recovered. Read more below.
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Parkinson’s disease is linked to the aggregation of the protein α-synuclein (aSyn). A new study explores how local ion concentrations affect aSyn aggregation, monomer structural dynamics, and fibril polymorphism, offering insights into potential therapeutic strategies
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The future of floating Antarctic ice shelves is a key uncertainty surrounding projections of future sea level rise. Ali Mashayek from @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social has identified seasonal regimes of warm Circumpolar Deep Water intrusion, which lead to ice melting
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