Energy Industry Services
Companies across the energy industry partner with Lucideon on materials development, process development, technical analysis, and materials evaluation. Our ISO 17025 accredited laboratories accelerate your product development, de-risk scale up, and analyse failures across whole product lifecycles.
Our work spans all areas of the energy market including power generation, renewables, energy storage, traditional energy, nuclear, and end users. We work with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), battery manufacturers, fuel cell and electrolyser manufacturers, service and repair companies, materials and component suppliers, consultants, and more to deliver efficient solutions with improved material performance and reliability.
Lucideon is your trusted partner for innovation in energy, helping you bring disruptive technologies to market faster and improve existing technologies with confidence.
Areas of application
We support a range of customers in the energy market, including:
- Traditional energy
Materials characterisation, analysis of components, failure analysis, alloy development support, insulation system testing, weld and braze analysis and evaluation, high temperature oxidation testing. - Nuclear energy
Materials development and selection, comprehensive testing and analysis, waste encapsulation. - Renewable generation
Consultancy for net zero technologies, turbine component failure analysis, materials characterisation, additive manufacturing consultancy and testing, sintering and firing optimisation. - Energy storage
Refractories testing for thermal energy storage systems, IMPACTTM modelling for materials and process development and digital twins, material testing, and characterisation. - Batteries
Materials and process development including electrodes separators and enclosures, ceramic processing for solid state batteries, powder processing and characterisation, materials testing, battery saggars testing utilising our refractories material testing capabilities. - Fuel cells and electrolysers
Materials and process development, sintering optimisation including Flash Sintering, ceramic processing for solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysers.
Capabilities
Our integrated capabilities allow us to act as an extension of your R&D and technical teams.
Materials development
- Materials selection and validation
- Particle characterisation and contamination analysis
- Alloy development support
- First-piece or pilot qualification testing
- Interface interaction evaluation
Process development
- Process optimisation and scale-up support
- Improving powder processing
- Sintering optimisation and novel sintering techniques including Flash Sintering
- Additive manufacturing consulting and testing
- Repair process validation
Characterisation and materials validation
- Physical, chemical, and mechanical characterisation
- Surface analysis and microstructural evaluation
- High Temperature Real-Time X-Ray Diffraction Analysis
- High temperature material performance testing
- Refractories testing and analysis
- Metallurgical casting and coating evaluations
- Testing to ASTM or OEM specifications
- Foreign material identification and debris analysis
- Data science and machine learning for materials development and process improvement
- Finite element analysis (FEA) to simulate materials in their environment
- Design of experiments and validation of experiments
Consultancy and Technical Strategy
- Failure analysis and root cause investigations
- Risk reduction and technical due diligence
- Reverse engineering for obsolete parts
Why Work with Lucideon?
- End-to-end support
From concept and feasibility through to manufacturing and post-market challenges
- Technical expertise
A range of technical experts with deep knowledge to support you in your journey
- Consultative mindset
Tailored solutions to your unique materials and process challenges
- Independent expertise
Deep technical knowledge combined with extensive product development and characterisation capabilities to solve your materials challenges
About Lucideon
Lucideon is a world-leading materials development and technology commercialisation organisation. We help organisations innovate, optimise, and de-risk products through expert consultancy, applied research, and advanced testing.
With multidisciplinary teams and state-of-the-art facilities, we work across highly regulated industries to solve complex materials challenges and enable confident decision-making. In the energy sector, we help customers with their materials challenges, improving processes and bringing new technologies to market faster.
Talk to our energy experts to explore how Lucideon can support your next challenge.
Testing & characterisation
» Testing & characterisation services for the energy industry
Case Studies
Application of Lucideon's Flash Sintering Technology
A customised materials testing project for Nuclear Transport Services (NTS), UK (Phase 1)
A customised materials testing project for Nuclear Transport Services (NTS), UK (Phase 2)
Testing of unique cladding system and its components
Investigating the performance of saggars for lithium-ion electrode materials firing
Water filters sintered in a 20% hydrogen natural gas blend
Frequently asked questions
Which energy industries and applications does Lucideon support?
Lucideon supports a wide range of energy industry applications including power generation, hydrogen and alternative fuels, renewables, traditional energy, nuclear, energy storage and end users. We work with OEMs, battery manufacturers, energy intensive manufacturing sectors, fuel cell and electrolyser companies, component suppliers, and service and repair companies.
What services does Lucideon provide to the energy industry?
Lucideon provides materials science expertise, advanced materials characterisation and testing, and consultancy across traditional, low carbon, and next generation energy sectors.
How does Lucideon support energy technology development?
Lucideon works across the energy sector on materials related projects, collaborating with industry R&D teams, universities, and government-funded programmes to develop and evaluate emerging energy technologies. Energy technology development projects can include:
- Development of materials and processes
- Root cause failure analysis
- Advanced materials characterisation
- Independent validation and performance testing of materials and components
- Support for development of emerging low carbon technologies
- Scale up of materials processes such as particle processing, firing, and sintering
How does Lucideon support the development of materials for energy technologies?
Lucideon supports the development of materials for energy technologies by providing materials science expertise, advanced testing, and targeted research programmes that help organisations design, validate, and improve high performance materials for traditional, low carbon, and next generation energy systems. The combination of Lucideon's expert knowledge, extensive characterisation capabilities, and pilot scale process facilities allows materials development projects to be successful.
What testing methods are relevant for energy applications?
Lucideon offers a wide range of testing methods suitable for demanding energy environments, including:
- Mechanical testing: tensile, compression, fatigue, creep, fracture toughness, hardness
- Thermal testing: thermal cycling, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, high‑temperature durability
- Chemical and environmental exposure testing: corrosion, oxidation, contamination analysis, hydrogen interaction
- Non‑destructive evaluation: microscopy, imaging, and defect characterisation
- Materials characterisation: XRD, SEM/EDX, particle analysis, surface evaluation