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University of Nottingham
  

This information was compiled in 2007 and consequently should only be used as a guide.

UK Research Facilities

Coal Conveying

1/3 scale pf rig
University of Nottingham

Combustion Rigs

1MW Combustion Testing Facility
E.ON Engineering Limited

Various combustion test facilities
University of Cambridge, Energy Group

Creep Testing

Creep/Fatigue Testing Machine
University of Nottingham

Elevated Temperature creep testing
University of Birmingham

Sensors, Instrumentation, Measurement

University of Greenwich

Environmental Testing

Mobile air quality and noise monitoring equipment
E.ON Engineering Limited

Fatigue Testing

Creep/Fatigue Testing Machine
University of Nottingham

Thermal cyclic fatigue testing
Praxair Surface Technologies

Moire Interferometry & Photoelastic Casting Facilities

University of Nottingham

Voltage Laboratory

400 kV High Voltage test lab
University of Leicester

Large High Voltage laboratory
University of Manchester
 

Materials Facilities 

Corrosion
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Erosion
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Foreign Object Damage
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Materials Coating
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Nanoindentation
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Oxidation
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

University of Birmingham, Oxidation and High-Temperature Coatings

Powder Processing and Characterisation -Praxair Surface Technologies

Raman Spectroscopy
Bristol University, Interface Analysis Centre

General Material Testing
University of Nottingham, Structural Integrity and Dynamics Research Group

E.ON Engineering Limited, Materials Engineering

AES
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

AFM/SPM
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering  

Auger
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

FEGESEM
University of Birmingham, Oxidation and High-Temperature Coatings

DMTA
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

FEGSTEM
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

LIMA
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

SEM
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

Praxair Surface Technologies

University of Birmingham, Oxidation and High-Temperature Coatings

SEM-EDX
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

SIMS
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

SRD
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

TEM
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

University of Birmingham, Oxidation and High-Temperature Coatings

XPS
Cranfield University, National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre

Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

XRD
Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering

University of Birmingham, Oxidation and High-Temperature Coatings

 

Energy Supply Research


Faculty of Engineering
Wolfson Building
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: 0115 951 3747 (Prof David Grant) or>
telephone: 0774 774 5400 (Dr John Yellup)