Dr Soheil Bazzazedeh has started his KTP Associate Position at Baker Hughes Ltd (Flexible Composite Pipes), in partnership with the WMG , funded through the Innovate UK/Baker Hughes KTP programme. Soheil will focus on Innovation in  Multiphysics Modelling for Multilayer Flexible Pipes to enable sustainable design of those systems.   

A partnership with the National Composites Centre (NCC) on hydrogen permeation in composites and multilayer systems funded through the Hydrogen Strategic Programme (HVM Catapult/Innovate UK) has started - Andrew Angus, Research Fellow from our Group has been developing an open-source software Permeatus to enable predictive modelling of hydrogen gas barrier performance of polymer composites.  

Aravinthen Rajkumar (see left) has become Research Assistant to develop AI-driven approaches to design new polymeric materials for hydrogen gas barrier simulations. 

Henry Royce Institute-funded project on Gaseous Hydrogen Permeation Test Methodology to Enable Improved Composites Storage Solutions for Fuel Cell Vehicles  has been successfully completed within the Materials Challenge Accelerator Programme by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and Universities in Manchester and Warwick. 

Quangminh Bui-Le has started his PhD studentship in Polymer Composites for Hydrogen Economy thanks to the Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) fund, in partnership with Strohm, to establish principles for designing high-pressure composite pipes for hydrogen transmission.