Upgrading Education & Research Capacity in Renewable Energy Technologies (UPERC-RETs)
Enhancing & Sustaining Capacity In Renewable Energy(RE) Technologies
Project Partners
About The Project
The Brew-Hammond Energy Centre, TBHEC, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, and her partners in Norway, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Alesund, are undertaking a project dubbed, Upgrading Education and Research Capacity in Renewable Energy Technologies (UPERC-RETs). The project is hosted by KNUST, and was lunched on the 24th of July, 2015, by the then Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, Professor William-Otoo Ellis. The project is managed by Dr. Lena Dzifa Mensah, a Fellow of TBHEC and a Lecturer of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Funder
The UPERC-RETs project is funded by the Norwegian Development Cooperation Agency (NORAD), under its initiative for collaboration in Energy and Petroleum (EnPe) education and research.
UPERCRETs Project Objective
Enhance Female Participation in Renewable Energy Technologies.
Develop Capacity of KNUST Staff in Renewable Energy Technologies.
Training More PhD Students to help Improve Research Capabilities.
The overall objective of the project is to develop the capacity of KNUST staff to sustain the current masters programme in Renewable Energy Technologies, hosted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
As part of project activities to enhance the relevance of the programme content to industrial needs, a seven-member Advisory Team has been instituted comprising members from different segments of the energy sector value chain, who will meet once a year to review programme content, and make an input into research topics.
Our Facilities & Equipment
The project has since its inception procured equipment of over 2.3 million NOK which is being used for student research work and practical demonstration of the various Renewable Energy (RE) postgraduate programmes. Some of the notable equipment procured are:
Some of the notable equipment procured are:
- HPC Workstation
- AC/DC Clamp Meter
- 3 Phase Power Analyzer
- Vane Thermo Anemometer
- Psychrometer
- Airflow Meter
- Tachometer Counter
- Angle Finder
- Stainless Steel Protractor
- AC/DC Clamp Meter
- Biogas Analyzer
- Temperature and Relative Humidity Meter
