Dr Nicolas Kelly

Reader

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Expertise

Has expertise in:

    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.

Prizes 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

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
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)
A two-step optimization model for quantifying the flexibility potential of power-to-heat systems in dwellings
Oluleye Gbemi, Allison John, Hawker Graeme, Kelly Nick, Hawkes Adam D
Applied Energy Vol 228, pp. 215-228 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.06.072
A multi-period mixed integer linear program for assessing the benefits of power to heat storage in a dwelling energy system
Oluleye Gbemi, Allison John, Kelly Nick, Hawkes Adam
28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering 28th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering Computer Aided Chemical Engineering Vol 43, pp. 1451-1456 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64235-6.50253-9

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Professional activities

Bridging the Gaps (BTG): Net Zero and Circular Economy Workshop
Participant
18/5/2022
BTG Workshop - Net-Zero
Speaker
18/5/2022
COP26 Reflections
Participant
16/12/2021
Invited talk: Strathclyde Global Engineering Webinar Series
Speaker
3/3/2021
Paper presented at uSIM conference
Speaker
20/11/2020
Seminar series: Strathclyde Sustainable Development Showcase
Speaker
1/10/2020

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Projects

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
Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow: Generating Exemplar Districts in Sustainable Energy Deployment H2020: Ruggedised (Smart and Sustainable Cities)
Clarke, Joseph Andrew (Principal Investigator) Bellingham, Richard (Co-investigator) Costola, Daniel (Co-investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator)
Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow: Generating Exemplar Districts in Sustainable Energy Deployment
01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2021

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Address

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
James Weir

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