ISE provides research, consultancy, testing, and professional development expertise in renewable energy technologies. Its capabilities support partners working in bioenergy, renewable power generation, hybrid systems, energy efficiency, and environmental performance.
Bio-Fuel & Biomass
Conversion of waste cooking oil into biodiesel, development of solid bio-fuel briquettes from agricultural waste, biomass characterisation, and biogas production optimisation.
Advanced Power Generation
Hybrid solar thermal systems, photovoltaic performance enhancement, low-wind-speed turbine technologies, bio-hydrogen production, fuel cell applications, and micro-hydro power technologies.
Energy Efficiency & Hybrid Systems
Hybrid renewable energy harvesting systems, fuel additives for emission reduction, and vehicle energy management systems.
Wind Energy
Design and development of low-velocity wind turbines, wind resource modelling and assessment, and wind energy testbed and proof-of-concept work.
Solar Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Materials
Solar charge controller development, advanced thin-film materials, solar cell development, and solar plant support services, including automated cleaning mechanisms and machine-learning-based soiling prediction.
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES)
Enabling and emerging technologies, hybrid and smart systems, renewable energy microgrids, and energy storage.
Sustainability and Emerging Energy Technologies
Energy mix and security, clean and green technology, advanced material science, hydrogen fuel cells, and ocean wave energy harvesting, including marine renewable energy research covering wave resource assessment, techno-economics, and wave energy converter demonstrators.
Fire Engineering
Smouldering combustion of tropical peat, fire risk management and early warning, machine learning for fire prediction, and CFD-based fire suppression research.
Oscillating Water Column
Wave energy converter that uses the rise and fall of ocean waves inside a partially submerged chamber to drive a turbine and generate electricity.
Renewable energy feasibility studies for solar, biomass, and hydro projects
Energy audits and industrial energy efficiency management
Carbon footprint analysis
Environmental Impact Assessment support
Renewable energy testing and professional development support
Combustion test for conventional and alternative fuels
