Dr Nicolas Kelly
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Area of Expertise
I have over 30 years research experience in energy and the built environment. Research topics include:
- Buildings and the urban environment
- Net Zero buildings and communities
- Energy efficiency in buildings
- Building-integrated renewable energy systems
- Photovoltaics
- Hydrogen and fuel cells
- Novel building integrated wind power devices
- Solar thermal technologies
- Thermal energy storage including phase change materials (PCM)
- Simulation-based control of buildings
- Modelling and monitoring of building energy performance
- Modelling and testing of low and zero carbon energy technologies
- Probabalistic modelling of climate, building occupancy and energy use
- Simulation software development.
Prize And Awards
- ICE Baker Medal
- Recipient
- 2011
- Best Paper Award - World Renewable Energy Congress X
- Recipient
- 7/2008
- RCUK Academic Fellowship
- Recipient
- 12/2003
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Publications
- Developing a statistical electric vehicle charging model and its application in the performance assessment of a sustainable urban charging hub
- Kelly N J, Flett G H, Hand J W
- Journal of Building Performance Simulation, pp. 1-20 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2023.2258843
- Assessing the ability of electrified domestic heating in the UK to provide unplanned, short-term responsive demand
- Kelly Nick, Cowie Andrew, Flett Graeme
- Energy and Buildings Vol 252 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111430
- Modelling of individual domestic occupancy and energy demand behaviours using existing datasets and probabilistic modelling methods
- Flett Graeme, Kelly Nick
- Energy and Buildings Vol 252 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111373
- Energy technologies for net zero : An IET guide
- Dixon James, Brush Susan, Flett Graeme Hamilton, Bell Keith, Kelly Nicolas
- (2021)
- Assessing the ability of roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) canopies to support electric vehicle (EV) charging in cities
- Kelly N J, Allison J, Flett G, Hand J W
- uSIM2020 Building to Buildings – Urban and Community Energy Modelling (2020)
- Modelling responsive demand from electrified domestic heating and storage under different operating strategies
- Allison J, Cowie A, Flett G, Hand J W, Hawker G, Kelly N J
- uSIM - Urban Energy Simulation (2018)
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Professional Activities
- East Ayrshire Council (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 5/10/2023
- How can people heat their homes efficiently, sustainably and affordably?
- Speaker
- 21/2/2023
- BTG Workshop - Net-Zero
- Speaker
- 18/5/2022
- Bridging the Gaps (BTG): Net Zero and Circular Economy Workshop
- Participant
- 18/5/2022
- COP26 Reflections
- Participant
- 16/12/2021
- Invited talk: Strathclyde Global Engineering Webinar Series
- Speaker
- 3/3/2021
Projects
- Energy Assessment Tool Development with PropEco and ESRU
- Kelly, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) McGhee, Raheal (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Renewable Energy Microgrid Integration for Remote, Off-grid Cabins in Nunavut (UK -Canada)
- Johnstone, Cameron (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) Ordonez Sanchez, Stephanie Eugenia (Co-investigator)
- 06-Jan-2022 - 05-Jan-2025
- Digital Dairy Value-Chain for South-West Scotland and Cumbria (Strength in Places Fund)
- Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Wagner, Beverly (Academic) Wilson, Juliette (Academic) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Atkinson, Robert (Co-investigator) Bellekens, Xavier (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) Lengden, Michael (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Ward, Andrew (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2027
- KTP - Anderson, Bell, Christie Ltd. The project will develop a toolkit to incorporate holistic net zero carbon measures into their design process, enabling creation of net zero carbon communities.
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2024
- Decarbonising Shipping Utilising Renewable Hydrogen - Supergen Cross Hub Funding
- Ordonez Sanchez, Stephanie Eugenia (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- SFC GCRF Pump Priming - Cleaner Air for Kolkata
- Bellingham, Richard (Principal Investigator) Beverland, Iain (Co-investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Co-investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) Macdonald, Malcolm (Co-investigator) Rogerson, Robert (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
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Contact
Dr
Nicolas
Kelly
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: nicolas.kelly@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5083