Dr Paul Gerard Tuohy
Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Area of Expertise
- Advanced buildings and building systems
- Comfort and behaviour of people in buildings
- Smart sustainable communities
- Low and zero carbon technologies
- Integration of Storage in Low Carbon Buildings and Districts
- Design support, performance analysis, modelling, monitoring and POE
- Renewables
- Building regulations
- Ecovillages
- Passive House Design
- Energy Systems
Qualifications
PhD Thesis: Strategies for low carbon buildings: Assessment of design options and translation of design intent into performance in practice. University of Strathclyde, 2013.
MSc: Energy Systems and the Environment. Thesis: Sustainable Housing. University of Strathclyde. 2004.
MSc: Design and Manufacture of Microelectronic Systems. Thesis: Realistic worsts cast parameter sets for circuit simulation. University of Edinburgh. 1986.
BSc Hons. Applied Physics. University of Strathclyde. 1983.
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Publications
- Alice Ryan and the Women of 8 Church Street Tipperary (1911-1923) : Insights into Tipperary Cumann na mBan
- Tuohy Paul Gerard
- (2025)
- Modelling of mine shaft thermal energy storage (MSTES) for district heating and grid balancing
- Ewe Win Eng, Flett Graeme, Tuohy Paul, Dassow Jessica, Molnar Ian, Flude Stephanie, Mukherjee Indrani, Burnside Neil, Wang Huachuan, Yang Shangtong, Whittington Daniel, Shipton Zoe
- uSIM2024 (2024)
- The impact of forecasting accuracy on the economic performance of flexibility provision
- Howorth G, Kockar I, Tuohy P, Flett G, Bingham J
- IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2023, pp. 4038-4042 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.0471
- Business models for virtual power plants and their impact on economic operation
- Howorth G, Kockar I, Tuohy P, Flett G, Bingham J
- IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2023, pp. 3689-3693 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.0754
- Enhanced virtual power plant design and implementation lessons
- Howorth G, Kockar I, Tuohy P, Flett G, Bingham J
- IET Conference Proceedings Vol 2023, pp. 3679-3683 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.0758
- Flow battery activities at the University of Strathclyde
- Brightman Edward, Robertson Stuart, Lyth Stephen, Sims Ryan, Tuohy Paul, Lue Leo, Bae Dowon, Berlouis Leonard
- International Flow Battery Forum, pp. 30 (2024)
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Research Interests
- Impact of occupant comfort and behaviour on energy use.
- Renewable energy integration in buildings, communities and micro-grids.
- Integration of Energy Storage in Low Carbon Buildings and Districts.
- Future building performance, standards and regulations.
- Building industry design process and zero defect performance in practice.
- Building and systems performance simulation.
- Buildings, systems and controls optimisation.
- Passive buildings, EU Passivhaus standards.
- Model Predictive Control of Solar Thermal Systems.
- Microelectronic systems.
Professional Activities
- Strategic Themes: Digital Twinning for Decarbonisation of our Cities
- Participant
- 27/11/2024
- 100% Renewable Energy Systems Masterplanning and Modelling for the £24.5M East Ayrshire Growth Deal 'National Energy Research Demonstrator (NERD)'
- Speaker
- 24/11/2019
- Absurdity of Biofuels and the 100% Renewable Future Energy System
- Speaker
- 29/4/2019
- Social Innovation Systems for Building Resilient Communities
- Speaker
- 16/6/2017
Projects
- Innovatium: Provision of Support/Tool for assessment of services
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
- Louisville/Jefferson County Metro: Priority Climate Action Plan development for the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program
- Bellingham, Richard (Principal Investigator) Andriosopoulos, Dimitris (Co-investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Co-investigator) Li, Sheng (Co-investigator) Rogerson, Robert (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Yogo, Raymond Okinyi
- Kockar, Ivana (Principal Investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Yogo, Raymond Okinyi (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- GigaWattHour Subsurface Thermal Energy storAge: Engineered structures and legacy Mine shafts: STEaM
- Shipton, Zoe (Principal Investigator) Burnside, Neil (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Yang, Shangtong (Co-investigator) Johnson, Gareth (Research Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2022 - 23-Jan-2026
- Assessment of long and short term thermal energy storage in flooded coal mines
- Burnside, Neil (Principal Investigator) Dempster, William (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Whittington, Daniel (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- Research to identify if changes to guidance in standard 3.14 ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality
- Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Principal Investigator)
- The 2015 regulations required all new dwellings to have CO2 monitors installed to alert the occupants to poor indoor air quality that would encourage them to open windows and provide purge ventilation.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2023
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Contact
Dr
Paul Gerard
Tuohy
Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: paul.tuohy@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2083