Professor Alan Guwy
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Professor Alan Guwy heads up the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC), at the University of Glamorgan. SERC is a multi-disciplinary team of over 40 researchers investigating renewable hydrogen production, novel biogas systems, hydrogen storage, novel fuel cell developments and hydrogen energy systems.
He represents the UK’s concerns on IEA task group Annex 21and the International Water Association’s (IWA) AD Specialist Group. He was the lead Scientist for the British Council’s “Dialogue on Decentralised Low Carbon Technologies with India” and led the Wales-India “Low Carbon Technologies” programme. He led the “Hydrogen and Fuel Cell” theme within the Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI) in Wales, and the principal investigator for a £6.3 million ERDF project “CymruH2Wales” to develop H2 & FC technologies.
He leads activities at the Hydrogen Research Centre based at Baglan Energy Park in South Wales and is an investigator in two hydrogen and Fuel Cell related SUPERGEN Consortia; namely the Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UKSHEC I & II) (GR/S26965/01, EP/E040071/1) where SERC lead the hydrogen generation theme; and the SUPERGEN V Biological Fuel Cells programme (EP/D047943/1), in which SERC leads the Microbial Fuel Cells theme. Other hydrogen related R&D projects include biohydrogen from food co-products Carbon Trust, (2002-7-37-1) & (2004-1872-7).
His research is focused on renewable generation of hydrogen, the optimisation of anaerobic fermentation to produce bioenergy in the form of hydrogen and methane gas and bioelectricity using microbial fuel cells and bio-electrocatalytic systems. He has authored over 50 ISI peer reviewed international journal articles and have a h-Index of 19. He has played a key role in R&D projects totaling over £20 million funded by EPSRC SUPERGEN’s, BBSRC, EU Marie Curie fellowships, EU FP4 and FP6, Carbon Trust and EU-ERDF.
He is currently lead researcher on hydrogen and fuel cells related projects worth in excess of £7million.
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