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Career History

2010 – present
Postgraduate Research Student – Queen’s University Belfast
Clean Energies Research Group

2009 – 2010
Research Assistant – Queen’s University Belfast
Turbomachinery Research Group

2004 – 2009
Aerodynamicist – QinetiQ
Civil Aircraft Wing Design Group, Bedford UK

2000-2004
MEng in Aeronautical Engineering – Queen’s University Belfast
First Class Honours

PhD Research Area

Waste Heat Recovery in Hybrid Buses

Research Interests

Waste Heat Recovery
Diesel Engines
Turbocompounding
Engine Modelling
Thermoelectrics

Publications

I. Briggs, “Modelling a turbogenerator for waste heat recovery on a diesel-electric hybrid bus”, Proc. of 15th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, Dublin, March 2012. http://goo.gl/26YXO

I. Briggs, “Modelling waste heat recovery with a turbogenerator on a diesel engine”, presented at the 2012 European Ricardo Software User Conference, Ludwigsburg, Germany, March 2012. http://goo.gl/Nw78r

I. Briggs, G. McCullough, S. Spence, R. Douglas, R. O’Shaughnessy, A. Hanna, C. Rouaud, R. Seaman, “Waste Heat Recovery on a Diesel-Electric Hybrid Bus Using a Turbogenerator”, Proc. of SAE 2012 Commercial Vehicles Engineering Congress, Rosemont, IL, USA, October 2012. http://papers.sae.org/2012-01-1945

I. Briggs, G. McCullough, S. Spence, R. Douglas, R. O’Shaughnessy, A. Hanna, C. Rouaud, R. Seaman, “A Parametric Study of an Exhaust Recovery Turbogenerator on a Diesel-Electric Hybrid Bus”, Proc. of ASME TurboEXPO 2013, San Antonio, TX, USA, June 2013. GT2013-94492

Links

Queen’s University Belfast
Clean Energies Research Group

Last updated: 17th June 2013