Samad Power was awarded £413 grant to develop a solar turbo CHP unit for Sub Saharan African market with a number of UK and South African partners, including University of Pretoria (South Africa), University of Birmingham, Cranfield University as academic partners) and Brits Energy (UK) and LEMS Energy Management Services (South Africa) as commercial partners, for a semi-renewable off-grid CHP unit based on micro gas turbine with parabolic solar dish, thermal storage, battery storage, and multi-fuel combustion.

Samad Power was awarded £413 grant to develop a solar turbo CHP unit for Sub Saharan African market with a number of UK and South African partners, including University of Pretoria (South Africa), University of Birmingham, Cranfield University as academic partners) and Brits Energy (UK) and LEMS Energy Management Services (South Africa) as commercial partners, for a semi-renewable off-grid CHP unit based on micro gas turbine with parabolic solar dish, thermal storage, battery storage, and multi-fuel combustion.

Renewably sourced Hydrogen has great potential for future energy supply. The merits of a range of scenarios are examined by the UK government for decarbonising heating in buildings. As such, the desire to meet legally-binding emissions reduction targets by 2050 is driving the strategic decisions on the future of the gas grid, to replace natural gas (methane) with hydrogen in residential and commercial buildings and gas appliances.

Samad Power Ltd’s micro Combined Heat and Power system is a gas boiler, capable of producing up to 2 kW of electricity, whilst simultaneously providing 30 kW of heat for hot water and space heating requirements. Following the successful operation and performance tests in the lab environment, this is now going through CE certification and extensive field trial in representative environment for endurance test. Further optimisation and tuning are expected to take place during this phase and market ready product will be approved for production at the end of this project.

3E-JTO

Samad Power was awarded an Innovate UK grant through the Zero Emission Propulsion CR&D competition for Project 3E-JTO to support future propulsion technologies for the transport sector.

In collaboration with ARC Aero Systems, the project 3E-JTO aims to demonstrate the capability of electric Jump take-off (JTO) technology for future aviation.

The last decade has witnessed large-scale funding from global capital markets in the quest to produce commercially viable, certifiable solutions for the emerging Advanced Air Mobility domain. At present, none of these initiatives has produced any commercially viable concepts that are socially acceptable and able to attain certification status from aerospace regulatory bodies—having become even more complex with the publication of the SC. VTOL certification standard by EASA in mid-2022.

Project 3E-JTO seeks to bring a commercially and socially viable concept that will meet published certifiable standards. By focusing on electrically powering a full-span rotor of a gyrocopter or compound gyrocopter to achieve jump take-off (JTO), these aircraft can carry double the payload/range over multirotor aircraft at only a fraction of the power. JTO will allow the aircraft to take off vertically but removes the ability to hover.

Project 3E-JTO will focus on the integration and testing of the electrical power system using batteries to power a full-span rotor, requiring a small battery pack, inverter and low rpm high torque electric motor. These will be off-the-shelf components used to test the system on a test rig.

The project will bring multiple benefits in cost, societal and environmental, even when compared to other electric solutions. Such as 50% operating costs compared to conventional propulsion systems, a smaller carbon footprint due to lower power, a smaller battery, and larger aircraft to current VTOL solutions and improved connectivity due to the technology enabling a sensible aircraft solution.

Global EV deployment is going to challenge the infrastructure in terms of power availability and fast charging capability. SuperCharGen will provide complementary power source using an off-the-shelf gas turbine in a turbogenerator setup for use with a small number of rapid chargers as well as larger array of slower EV chargers.

The UK and EU market for larger CHP and CCHP units based on micro gas turbine in the power range above 25kW electrical started growing in the last few years due to the reduction in costs and better understanding of the environmental and economic benefits of these systems. This has started to take significant share of growing market from reciprocating engines, particularly due to increased concern about the high NOx emissions of IC engines and the high maintenance costs and down time which are alleviated by the use of micro gas turbines (MGTs). The launch of several IC base CHP systems of the 10kWe power range reflects increased interest from the market although their high capital costs and large size is still restricting wider expansion. Independent market research shows demand from potential customers such as motorway service stations, if suitable MGT based units become available.