Congratulations to our colleagues from the MAAT and ACHEON FP7 programmes who have put so much into getting 4 proposals in under the FP7 Transport call which closed today. Many late nights, hundreds of emails, Skype and telephone calls have resulted in a set of polished documents delivered on time to the EU Participant Portal. […]
Power and Energy Systems Research Institute
Multibody Advanced Airship for Transport Electrical Power Distribution System
Transport for the 21st Century—The Challenge – www.eumaat.info The MAAT Electrical Power Distribution System – Four physical power distribution architectures have been investigated that are capable of harvesting and distributing 4MW of electrical energy: Primary Distribution Secondary Distribution Matrix Distribution Hybrid or “Ad hoc” Distribution. It is envisaged that the wiring will be through the body […]
Meet the EUFP7 MAAT Airship project team at AERO Friedrichshafen in April
The next MAAT project meeting will be held from 24th to 27th April 2013 during aeronautics fair AERO Friedrichshafen in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Friedrichshafen is home to the first Zeppelin airship, which was built at Lake Constance in 1899. If you are interested in the MAAT project, pay us a visit. The project team is looking […]
EU FP7 MAAT Airship Project Newsletter
The MAAT Project is now one year old, and to celebrate the results of our first year of collaborative research, we have produced a newsletter: D 9.5_Newsletter_MAAT_01-2012 We are now progressing to a technology demonstrator phase of the Airship’s various sub-system components. Here at the University of Lincoln, we will are developing the Energy and […]
Siemens Announce Principal and Partner UK Universities
At an event at it’s new sustainable facility ‘The Crystal’ in London today, Siemens announced its preferred UK Partner Universities. Principal status has been conferred on University of Lincoln University of Cambridge University of Manchester University of Newcastle University of Sheffield Partner status has been conferred on University of Oxford University of Loughborough