Dr Ali Badiei
Senior Lecturer in Building Services and Renewable Energy
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
Research area(s)
Having successfully completed his MSc, Ali was offered an EPSRC funded PhD to design and develop a novel assessment procedure for energy and environmental performance of UK dwellings. The modelling platform he developed was capable of overcoming shortcomings of the current Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) of the UK government by introducing a dynamic, swift and more accurate assessment of dwellings using already available EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) data at national scale.
After completing his PhD in building energy research, Ali joined the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) at the Energy and Environment Institute (EEI) of the University of Hull as a Research Fellow. It was in this role that he further developed his professional and research skills through design and development of various HVAC systems for domestic and commercial buildings, management of human and financial resources, leading multi-national teams to deliver complex projects, and commercialisation of the developed technologies through B2B marketing.
Besides the engineering and management activities to ensure successful completion of projects, Ali has transferred project findings to a wide range of colleagues and students by designing and delivering technical workshops, organising conferences, and delivering lectures. Ali has also supervised several MSc and PhD students to carry out innovative research, publish scientific articles and dissertations, and prepare for future careers.
Research Interests
- Energy Simulation and Performance Analysis
- Building Physics and Energy Evaluation
- Solar-Assisted Heat Pump Technologies
- Low-carbon Cooling Technologies
- Smart Home/Energy Technologies
Research grants and projects
Project details
- Solar-Assisted Heat Pump for Public Buildings (2018-2021): A low carbon heating system for existing public buildings employing a novel multiple-throughout-flowing micro-channel solar-panels-array and a novel mixed indoor/outdoor air source heat pump
- Heat Storage/Exchanging Unit (HSEU) for solar heating systems (2018-2020): A novel interactive heat storage/exchanging unit employing a double-tank configuration
- Vapour Injection Heat Pump with Two-Stage Evaporator for Buildings (2018-2020): Mixed indoor/outdoor air source heat pump system using vapour injection compressor and two-stage evaporators
- Dew Point Evaporative Cooler (2017-2019): Low-energy dew point cooling for computing data centres
- DEFACTO (2013-2018): Digital Energy Feedback and Control Technology Optimisation
- REFIT (2012-2014): Personalised Retrofit Decision Support Tools for UK Homes using Smart Home Technology