Dr Alastair Hales
PhD, MEng
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Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
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Biography
PROJECTS:
Research England Policy Support Fund (Principal-Investigator): Battery Thermal Management: 06/22 - 07/23
Royal Society Research Grant (Principal-Investigator): Battery Thermal Management for Aviation Applications (BATMAA): 04/22 - 09/23
EPSRC IAA Net-Zero (Principal-Investigator): Use of phase-change materials for thermal management in battery flight: 01/22 - 06/22
Faraday Industry Fellowship (Principal-Investigator): Common Modelling Framework for Battery Model Parameterisation: 10/21 - 03/23
EPSRC IAA: Commercialisation of Battery Model Parameterisation Techniques from Imperial College London: 06/21 - 03/22
Faraday Institution ACROBAT (CoI): 04/21 - 08/21
Faraday Institution TOPBAT (Co-Investigator): 07/20 - 03/21
Innovate UK BATMAN: 04/18 - 06/21
Innovate UK Isothermal Control Platform development: 06/19 - 06/21
Innovate UK Isothermal Control Platform feasibility study: 04/18 - 04/19
BACKGROUND:
Completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol in 2016, specialising in transient heat transfer and non-destructive diagnostics of multiphase flows. Worked for SUEZ Advanced Solutions UK, designing equipment closely linked to his PhD topic, and as a Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London, modelling convection cooling capabilities of low powered air-moving devices. Spent 3.5 years in the Electrochemical Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, before moving to University of Bristol to take a lectureship in August 2021.
Research interests
* Battery thermal management beyond automotive applications
* Temperature dependent equivalent circuit model parameterisation
* Next generation powertrain integration
* Normalised characterisation of battery thermal performance (cell cooling coefficient and beyond)
* Beginning of 2nd life state-of-health battery diagnostics
* Solid-state equivalent circuit model parameterisation
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
e-powertrain predictive maintenance using physics informed learning
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2024 to 31/12/2027
Battery Thermal Management for Aviation Applications
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
21/03/2022 to 20/03/2023
Battery Thermal Management for Aviation Applications
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
21/03/2022 to 20/03/2023
Battery Thermal Management for Aviation Applications
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
21/03/2022 to 30/04/2023
Publications
Recent publications
01/12/2024Advancing state estimation for lithium-ion batteries with hysteresis through systematic extended Kalman filter tuning
Scientific Reports
A Standardised Potentiometric Method for the Effective Parameterisation of Reversible Heating in a Lithium-Ion Cell
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Lithium-ion battery second life
Frontiers in Chemistry
A Numerical Study of the Suitability of Phase-Change Materials for Battery Thermal Management in Flight Applications
World Electric Vehicle Journal
(Invited) Methods for the Parameterisation of Battery Thermal Models
ECS Meeting Abstracts
