Dr Nicolas Kelly
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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ICE Baker Medal Recipient 2011 Best Paper Award - World Renewable Energy Congress X Recipient 7/2008 RCUK Academic Fellowship Recipient 12/2003
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
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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 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 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 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
Publications
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How can people heat their homes efficiently, sustainably and affordably? Speaker 21/2/2023 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
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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Dr
Nicolas
Kelly
Reader
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: nicolas.kelly@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5083