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Professor Simon Hogg

Professor

BSc PhD CEng FIMechE


Affiliations
AffiliationRoom numberTelephone
Professor in the Department of EngineeringE376 (Higginson Building)+44 (0) 191 33 41513
Member of Durham Energy Institute Advisory Board in the Durham Energy InstituteE376+44 (0) 191 33 41513

Biography

Simon Hogg returned to academia from industry in January 2010. He holds the Ørsted Chair in Renewable Energy at the University and is also the Executive Director of the Durham Energy Institute (https://www.dur.ac.uk/dei/). He is a mechanical engineer with research interests in the general areas of power generation conventional steam and gas turbine plant, wind turbines, energy systems and waste heat recovery. He the Principal Investigator of the EPRSC Future Conventional Power Research Consortium (Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds & Oxford Universities), which is considering the effect of the change in power mix from the growth of wind on the flexible operating requirements for conventional steam and gas power plant. He is also the Durham University lead member on the Executive Management Team of the EPSRC Supergen Wind Hub (Cranfield, Durham, Loughborough, Manchester, STFC & Strathclyde Universities). This is one of the EPSRC’s Supergen research coordination organisations, focusing on the UK academic contribution to wind power research in this case.

Simon graduated with a BSc and PhD from University of Manchester. His PhD study was funded by Rolls Royce and concerned developing computational fluid dynamics codes for designing gas turbine combustors. He held University posts at Oxford (Rolls Royce funded Research Fellow) and then Leicester (University Lecturer) Universities for the 10 years following completion of his PhD. He then moved into the power generation equipment supply industry joining Alstom’s power generation division in 1998. He worked first in Steam Turbine R&D as a group leader and R&D project manager. In 2003 he moved into Alstom’s Steam Turbine Retrofit Business where he held senior management/technical leadership positions in technical sales and order engineering, eventually becoming Engineering Director in 2007.

Simon is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Research interests

  • Power generation turbomachinery
  • Wind power

Research groups

Awarded Grants

  • 2017: A New Partnership in Offshore Wind(£767499.35 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
  • 2014: EPSRC Supergen Wind Hub(£224262.00 from Epsrc)
  • 2010: Supergen Wind Energy Technologies-Core, Towards the Offshore Wind Power Station(£728132.46 from Epsrc)

Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

  • Energy: Wind Power
  • Mechanics: Wind Power
  • Renewable energy: Wind Power
  • Industry: Engineering, manufacturing: Power generation turbomachinery
  • Energy: Power generation turbomachinery
  • Mechanics: Power generation turbomachinery

Publications

Chapter in book

Conference Paper

Edited book

  • Hogg, Simon & Crabtree, Christopher (2016). UK Wind Energy Technologies. Routledge.

Journal Article

Patent

  • Hogg, S.I. & Hilfer, M. (2013). A Seal Assembly. GB1309769.6. Application filed: 31 May 2013. Granted: 30 November -0001
  • Hogg, S.I. (2012). Sealing Device For Reducing Fluid Leakage in Turbine Apparatus. PCT/GB2011/051892. Application filed: 5 October 2011. Granted: 26 April 2012
  • Hogg,S.I., & Urlichs, K., (2005). Sealing arrangement using brush seals. GB2393766-A WO2004031627-A1 AU2003283439-A1 DE10393433-T5 US2005206087-A1 US7559554-B2. Application filed: 4 April 2005. Granted: 22 September 2005
  • Hogg, S.I., & Walker, P.J. (2004). Sealing arrangement using flexible seals. US2005104300-A1 DE102004049117-A1. Application filed: 14 October 2004. Granted: 19 May 2005
  • Hogg, S.I., Rhodes, N.A., & Schoenfeld, E. (2004). Process for producing leaves for leaf seal. GB2413602-A WO2005103536-A1 EP1740857-A1 CN1946958-A US2007261225-A1 GB2413602-B US7487588-B2 CN101691889-A CN1946958-B. Application filed: 26 April 2004. Granted: 3 November 2005
  • Hogg S.I. (2004). Sealing arrangement in turbine machinery. US2005194745-A1 GB2411931-A DE102005009402-A1. Application filed: 8 March 2004. Granted: 8 September 2005
  • Hogg, S.I., (2002). Brush seal with angled bristles. GB2393223-A. Application filed: 18 September 2002. Granted: 24 March 2004

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Supervision students