Murray is a Senior Lecturer at CREST: the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology. He is an electrical engineer with particular interest in the Integration of Renewables into existing electrical power systems. He specialises in the analysis of low-voltage distribution networks and the development of flexible demand as a means of grid balancing in future low-carbon power systems incorporating high penetrations of intermittent wind, marine and solar power.
BSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Leeds University, 1985
Software and Electrical Engineer, Morris Cranes, Loughborough, 1986 - 1991
Self-employed Musician, 1991 - 1997
Joined Loughborough University, 1997
PhD Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, 2004
Distribution network modelling: unbalanced load-flow time-domain simulation
Domestic demand modelling and flexible demand
Active networks: distributed automatic voltage control
Renewable-energy-powered reverse-osmosis desalination
Murray is developer of a 3-d interactive e-learning software package covering the principles of electrical machines. The high quality graphics allow students to "see" the rotating flux and to get a "feel" for reactive power, phasor diagrams and so on.
Murray teaches the Integration of Renewables ELP032, ELP632(DL) & ELD532(UG), which is a core module on the CREST Masters in Renewable Energy Systems Technology.
He also lectures on:
- Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Technologies - CVP304
- Building Energy Supply Systems - CVP306
- Wind Power 2 - ELP041
He presents the Electrical Aspects of Wind Power on both the CREST Wind Power Short Course, which is primarily for industrialists, and the Renewable Energy Technologies Short Course for the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Externally, Murray has lectured on the Postgraduate Diplome in Energy, EPFL, Switzerland and is Chair of Governors at Rendell Primary School, Loughborough.
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