Dr Nicholas Gurieff

NUW Postdoctoral Research Associate

School of Engineering

Email:nicholas.gurieff@newcastle.edu.au

Career Summary

Biography

Nicholas is an energy storage researcher focussed on the role that hydrogen can play in supporting Australia's gas and electricity networks which supply essential services to industry and the community. His doctoral research at the University of New South Wales concentrated on redox flow battery technology, improving energy efficiency with new cell designs developed using computer aided design and multiphysics finite element analysis. Outside university he has performed in a range of roles for industry and community groups, and served as an engineer officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He also served as a director of the Australian Institute of Energy and in an elected position on the UNSW Council.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Arts, University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), University of New South Wales

Keywords

batteries
energy ecosystems
energy networks
energy storage
energy transitions
fuel cells
hydrogen
modelling and simulation

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

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Membership

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/3/2016 -	Member	Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Australia
17/6/2017 -	Member	Australian Institute of Energy (AIE) Australia
1/1/2014 -	Member	Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust) Australia

Professional appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
14/1/2020 - 16/11/2020	Non-Executive Director	Australian Institute of Energy (AIE) Australia
1/7/2018 - 30/6/2020	Non-Executive Director	University of New South Wales

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Publications

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Journal article (6 outputs)

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2020

Gurieff N, Green D, Koskinen I, Lipson M, Baldry M, Maddocks A, et al., 'Healthy power: Reimagining hospitals as sustainable energy hubs', Sustainability (Switzerland), 12 1-17 (2020) [C1]

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Human health is a key pillar of modern conceptions of sustainability. Humanity pays a considerable price for its dependence on fossil-fueled energy systems, which must be addressed for sustainable urban development. Public hospitals are focal points for communities and have an opportunity to lead the transition to renewable energy. We have reimagined the healthcare energy ecosystem with sustainable technologies to transform hospitals into networked clean energy hubs. In this concept design, hydrogen is used to couple energy with other on-site medical resource demands, and vanadium flow battery technology is used to engage the public with energy systems. This multi-generation system would reduce harmful emissions while providing reliable services, tackling the linked issues of human and environmental health.

DOI	10.3390/su12208554
Co-authors	Elham Doroodchi, Behdad Moghtaderi

2020

Gurieff N, Keogh DF, Baldry M, Timchenko V, Green D, Koskinen I, Menictas C, 'Mass Transport Optimization for Redox Flow Battery Design', APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 10 (2020)

DOI	10.3390/app10082801
Citations	Scopus - 4Web of Science - 3

2019

Gurieff N, Cheung CY, Timchenko V, Menictas C, 'Performance enhancing stack geometry concepts for redox flow battery systems with flow through electrodes', JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE, 22 219-227 (2019)

DOI	10.1016/j.est.2019.02.014
Citations	Scopus - 4Web of Science - 4

2019

Gurieff N, Keogh DF, Timchenko V, Menictas C, 'Enhanced Reactant Distribution in Redox Flow Cells', MOLECULES, 24 (2019)

DOI	10.3390/molecules24213877
Citations	Scopus - 3Web of Science - 2

2018

Gurieff N, Timchenko V, Menictas C, 'Variable porous electrode compression for redox flow battery systems', Batteries, 4 (2018)

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) offer great promise as a safe, cost effective means of storing electrical energy on a large scale and will certainly have a part to play in the global transition to renewable energy. To unlock the full potential of VRFB systems, however, it is necessary to improve their power density. Unconventional stack design shows encouraging possibilities as a means to that end. Presented here is the novel concept of variable porous electrode compression, which simulations have shown to deliver a one third increase in minimum limiting current density together with a lower pressure drop when compared to standard uniform compression cell designs.

DOI	10.3390/batteries4040053
Citations	Scopus - 5

Gurieff N, Keogh DF, Bladry M, Timchenko V, Green D, Koskinen I, Menictas C, 'Mass Transport Optimization for Redox Flow Battery Design

DOI	10.20944/preprints202003.0379.v1

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Conference (3 outputs)

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2020

Gurieff N, Keogh DF, Menictas C, Timchenko V, 'Static Mixers for Enhanced Reactant Distribution in Redox Flow Cells', Sydney, Australia (2020)

2019

Gurieff N, Menictas C, Timchenko V, Skyllas-Kazacos M, Noack J, 'Performance enhancing stack geometry concepts', Lyon, France (2019)

2018

Noack J, Roznyatovskaya N, Gurieff N, Menictas J, Tübke J, Skyllas-Kazacos M, 'Current Development Trends and Challenges for Redox-Flow Batteries', Aarau, Switzerland (2018)

DOI	10.3929/ethz-b-000240521

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