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United Kingdom

Kemble, United Kingdom

Kemble, United Kingdom

Responsible for aerodynamic performance of turbomachinery components for ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-electric aircraft propulsion system.

As part of the Fuel Cell Systems Team, I was responsible for the development of the cathode system to deliver air to the fuel cell stacks. I worked with suppliers to deliver both custom and off the shelf components to make up the system, including the air compressor, humidifier and intercooler.I designed and developed a custom, high-speed, centrifugal.

Developing the environmental control and demist system of the Arrival battery electric bus.Role included duct and vent concept generation, system evaluation using CFD and detailed part design.

Hullavington, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Part of the Environmental Control team at Dyson Automotive developing the Dyson Electric Vehicle

United Kingdom

Hong Kong

• Leading a team of mechanical engineers to develop a feasible and robust wave energy converter (WEC) to generate power from ocean waves.The project involved:
• WEC and PTO design and development
• Hydrodynamic modelling
• Prototype design and manufacture
• Planning and conducting wave tank tests

• I worked as a mechanical research engineer on the first tidal energy project in Hong Kong. The aim of the project was to demonstrate the potential for tidal energy in Hong Kong and to advance research in the area of.
• Resource assessment, site survey and analysis
• Computational fluid dynamic modelling and validation using OpenFOAM CFD
• Tidal Energy Converter (TEC) design, simulation and testing
• Coordination of open water testing involving deployment, monitoring and data analysisThe project was an international collaboration between City University of Hong Kong and Inha University, Korea

Hokkaido, Japan

Winter season contract maintaining a string of rental properties in the mountains of northern Japan.

Cranfield University, UK

• I conducted an industrial research project working on the patented HydroAir Variable Radius Turbine (VRT) for Oscillating water column (OWC) wave power devices.The project involved:
• Novel, bi-directional turbine design and development
• Modelling of bi-directional turbines in CFD using ANSYS CFX
• Geometry optimisation procedure development
• Turbine efficiency optimisationThe project achieved a novel bi-directional turbine design with leading performance and a filed patent.The research resulted in the award of Engineering Doctorate (EngD)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fluid Dynamics - Renewable Energy, Engineering Doctorate Engd

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Completed part one of the Executive MBA at Cranfield as part of the Engineering Doctorate, covering core and soft business skills as well.

Master Of Engineering (Automotive) Meng, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering

Studied one year abroad as part of The International Exchange Programme between The University of Birmingham and the University of.