MSc projects

A significant proportion of resources from the partnership is dedicated to the pursuit of energy resource efficiency in the built environment. While doing so, research is undertaken to identify attractive technologies that would not only help decarbonise the business, but also provide interesting business cases. Various pathways have been explored by considering cutting-edge solutions and developing comprehensive models. Such work has been summarised in MSc projects; such as the following:

2021 – Paul Frapart – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Ruslan Galimov. “Wholesale Electricity Price Analysis & Modelling for Markets with a High Penetration of Renewables.” Poster by M. Hettler‌‌‌‌‌

2021 – Demi Kabylbayev – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof Nilay Shah. “The Role of CHP Technologies in a Net Zero World.” Poster by M. Hettler‌‌‌‌‌

2021 – Alisha Dad – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof Nilay Shah. “Net Zero Strategy: A View from UK PLC.” Poster by M. Hettler‌‌

2019 – Max Hettler – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Marc Stettler. “Environmental and techno-economic analysis of electric vans for urban deliveries in the grocery retail industry.” Poster by M. Hettler‌

2018 – Liam Langshaw – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Marc Stettler. “An Analysis of Liquified Natural Gas for Heavy Goods Transport in the United Kingdom.” Poster by L. Langshaw‌‌‌

2015 – Dagoberto Cedillos Alvarado – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Investment Strategy for the Decarbonisation of Supermarket Buildings in the UK.” Poster by D. Cedillos‌‌

2014 – Julien Bos – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Sustainable Store Replication.” Poster by J. Bos‌

2014 – Stefanos Doukidis – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Prof. Nilay Shah, Dr Salvador Acha and Mr. Christophe Mazur. “Transport Decarbonisation of a Food Retailer.” Poster by S. Doukidis‌

2013 – Charles Pilgrim – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Development of a Low Carbon Investment Decision Making Tool.” Poster by C. Pilgrim‌

2013 – Epameinondas Andrianopoulos – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Prof. Nilay Shah, Dr Salvador Acha. “Decarbonising a Retail Building within the UK context.” Poster by E. Andrianopoulos

2012 – Victor Caritte – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Prof. Nilay Shah, Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Ned Ekins-Daukes. “Developing a low carbon roadmap for a food retail chain in the UK: targets & challenges.” Poster by V. Caritte

‌A significant proportion of resources from the partnership is dedicated to the pursuit of energy resource efficiency in the built environment. While doing so, research is undertaken to identify attractive technologies that would not only help decarbonise the business, but also provide interesting business cases. Various pathways have been explored by considering cutting-edge solutions and developing comprehensive models. Such work has been summarised in MSc projects; such as the following:

2021 – Ana Moreno – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Ruslan Galimov. “Viability of Power Purchase Agreements in Low Carbon Electricity Markets: A UK Case Study” Poster by D. Munkong‌‌

2020 – Dusit Munkong – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof Nilay Shah. “Optimizing Solar PV and battery storage retrofit for commercial buildings in the UK” Poster by D. Munkong‌‌

2019 – Georgios Maouris – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Emilio Sarabia. “CO2 Refrigeration System Heat Recovery and Thermal Storage Modelling for Space Heating Provision in Supermarkets: An Integrated Approach” Poster by G. Maouris‌‌‌‌‌

2019 – Yibo Pang – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Niccolo Le Brun. “Added Value of Leveraging Demand Response Asset for large Consumers by Dynamically Participating in the UK Spot and Balancing Markets” Poster by Y. Pang‌‌‌‌

2018 – Vlad Nicolescu – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Dr Romain Lambert and Dr Niccolo Le Brun. “Optimal Modelling of Distributed Energy Systems in the Retail Sector” Poster by V. Nicolescu‌‌

2018 – Yining Liu – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Niccolo Le Brun and Dr Salvador Acha. “Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Control Strategies Under Uncertainty” Poster by Y. Liu‌

2017 – Bashayer Abdulrahman Al-Muftah – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof Nilay Shah. “Optimum Integration of Heat Pump System into Commercial Buildings.” Poster by B. Al-Muftah

2016 – Aspasia Georgakopoulou – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Dr Christos N. Markides and Prof Nilay Shah. “Modelling and Optimisation of Distributed Energy Resources in Food Retail Buildings: An Investment and Management Approach.” Poster by A. Georgakopoulou

2016 – Arthur Mariaud – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Dr Ned Ekins-Daukes and Prof Nilay Shah. “Integrated Optimisation of PV and Storage Systems for UK non-domestic buildings.” Poster by A. Mariaud‌

2016 – Marily Efstratiadi – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Christos N. Markides, Dr Salvador Acha and Prof Nilay Shah. “Analysis of Water-Cooled Refrigeration Systems for the Food Retail Industry.” Poster by M. Efstratiadi‌

2015 – Pietro Dalpane – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha. “Operational and Economic Analysis of GSHP coupled with Refrigeration Systems in UK Supermarkets.” Poster by P. Dalpane‌

2014 – Serguey Maximov – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Ned Ekins-Daukes, Dr Salvador Acha and Prof Nilay Shah. “Forecasting PV Impact on UK businesses.” Poster by S. Maximov‌

Core research has focused on enhancing or recommissioning existing buildings and exploring new approaches in reducing energy use. The constant thrive for excellence and performance improvement of Sainsbury’s buildings has led to the realisation of numerous MSc projects that exploit the rich data sets being monitored in its stores; for example:

2021 – Guilherme Raposo – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Edward O'Dwyer. “Raising Energy Awareness of Dynamic UK Electricity Prices.” Poster by L. Peratitis‌‌

2021 – Camille Daveau – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Edward O'Dwyer. “Smart and Flexible HVAC Management Frameworks in Commercial Buildings.” Poster by L. Peratitis‌‌

2021 – Margrethe Gjerull – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Rupert Myers. “Assessment of Supermarket Retrofits Through Dynamic Simulation Modelling.” Poster by L. Peratitis‌‌

2021 – Anyi Tong – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Rupert Myers. “Design and Evaluation of Rainwater Harvesting Systems for Commercial Buildings in the UK.” Poster by L. Peratitis‌‌‌‌‌‌

2019 – Lenos Peratitis – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha. “Assessing the Impacts of OFGEM's TCR on Large Non-domestic Consumer Bills.” Poster by L. Peratitis‌‌‌‌‌

2019 – Ronan Dubois – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Niccolo Le Brun and Dr Salvador Acha. “Machine learning-based Analysis of Supermarket Refrigeration Systems.” Poster by R. Dubois‌‌‌

2019 – Paulina Becerra – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Dr Romain Lambert. “Assessing the Potential of Smart Building Management Systems (BMS) to Improve Non-Domestic Building’s Performance.” Poster by P. Becerra‌

2018 – Mehdi Benbrahim – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Dr Romain Lambert and Dr Niccolo Le Brun. “UK Regional Electricity Bill Dynamics.” Poster by M. Benbrahim‌

2016 – Aitor Soler – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha. “Half-hourly Regional Electricity Price Modelling for Commercial End-Users in the UK.” Poster by A. Soler

2015 – Fatine Abdoussi – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Dr Bianca Howard and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Advanced Control Strategy for Building Energy Management Systems.” Poster by F. Abdoussi

2014 – Chang Foo Loh – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Ms. Sarah Noyé and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Enhancing the Re-Commissioning of Retail HVAC Systems and Building Envelope.” Poster by C. F. Loh

2014 – Shane Moynihan – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Prof. Nilay Shah and Ms. Sarah Noyé. “Enhancing the Recommissioning of a Retail Building - Refrigeration.” Poster by S. Moynihan

2013 – Georgios Kapenis – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Developing Sustainable Energy Strategies for Small Scale Food Retail Businesses.” Poster by G. Kapenis

2013 – Yujia Du – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha and Prof. Nilay Shah. “Energy and carbon performance analysis for supermarket refrigeration.” Poster by Y. Du‌‌

2013 – Moritz Bruder – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Prof. Nilay Shah, Dr Salvador. “Radical Refrigeration – Holistic Optimisation of Supermarket Refrigeration and its Impacts on Key Performance Indicators.” Poster by M. Bruder

2013 – Violeta Argyropoulou – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Prof. Nilay Shah and Prof. Bikash Pal. “Supermarket Virtual Power Plants.” Poster by V. Argyropoulou

2012 – Georgios Mavromatidis – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Prof. Nilay Shah, Dr Salvador Acha. “Diagnostic tools of energy performance for supermarkets using Artificial Neural Networks.” Poster by G. Mavromatidis

Research exploring sustainable and ethical sourcing in food crops and how they are managed across the supply-chain has been addressed in the following project:

2014 – Sotirios Lampropoulos – MSc Sustainable Energy Futures – Supervised by Dr Salvador Acha, Prof. Nilay Shah and Mr. Chang-Gun Lee. “Developing Sustainable Food Supply Chains Decarbonising the Strawberry supply chain.” Poster by S. Lampropoulos