Georg UK is pleased to have won a contract from the University of St Andrews to design, manufacture, and commission a special-purpose, fluid power test rig.
The School of Mathematics and Statistics, in collaboration with the Scottish Oceans Institute, will enhance its research activity through the use of the bespoke, state-of-the-art test rig and control unit to develop experimental fluid mechanics at St Andrews. The test rig will be installed in the Aquarium facility of the Scottish Oceans Institute.
Daphné Lemasquerier, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, said:
“The test rig is a crucial piece of equipment for our project. The bespoke rotary table will be capable of reaching and maintaining rotation rates up to 200 revolutions per minute whilst carrying a load of up to 1,000 kg, with speed precision less than 0.5%. The equipment will allow us to perform fluid mechanics experiments whilst in rotation, a necessary ingredient to reproduce and understand flows in atmospheres, oceans, and liquid interiors of planets. This rig will provide us with a competitive advantage in the field and open up opportunities to develop collaborations with the wider geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics community throughout the UK and overseas.”
With design and procurement of equipment well-underway, the test rig will be built and tested in-house at Georg UK’s Wolverhampton facility to simulate the exact installation conditions on-site before delivery and final commissioning.
The University of St Andrews is one of Europe’s most research-intensive seats of learning and is one of the top-rated universities in Europe for research, teaching quality, and student satisfaction. From climate science and sustainable development to energy ethics and grass-roots level action across all the communities in which it operates, sustainability is at the heart of the University’s strategic vision. World-leading research on sustainability is taking place across the breadth of the University, with researchers addressing key questions on the defining issue of our generation.
This project is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship [grant number MR/Y01605X/1].
