Celebrating innovation, rewarding curiosity and developing potential
The ChemEng facility allows students and industry professionals alike to benefit from an unparalleled hands-on educational experience, with the four-storey-high state-of-the-art carbon capture pilot plant representing a scaled-down chemical engineering plant, situated in the very heart of the Capital.
The centrepiece of our facility is the show-stopping ABB control room, accompanied by the installation of several brand new laboratories kitted out with the latest chemical engineering teaching equipment.
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Tomorrow’s technology for today’s students
Stretching over four floors, the carbon capture pilot plant is at the centre of the Chemical Engineering Department, providing a fully hands-on discovery experience for students and researchers alike.
Built to the highest industrial standards, our plant is a core part of the training we provide to all our young chemical engineers. It typifies many of the features that graduates will encounter in the ‘real world’, and gives them skills that will be essential in their future careers.
Our futuristic carbon capture pilot plant is also a vital resource in the fight against climate change, demonstrating best practice in capturing and storing harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) before it can be released into the atmosphere.
We actively encourage leading industrial organisations to use our facility for research purposes, with the hope that one day the technology will be adopted on a much larger scale at power stations across the world, capturing CO2 emissions before they harm the planet.
Our vision is backed by the UK Government, who announced a £1 billion competition in April 2012 to encourage companies to develop carbon capture technology on a commercial scale between 2016 and 2020.
In addition, we have created an entire new floor of laboratories, delivering more than 275 sq mt of new departmental space in the process. A new analytical laboratory and suite of staff offices have been created here, allowing for further teaching and research opportunities.
If you are in industry and have heard about what’s going on in our Discovery Space or have been excited by what you have read so far then this will be of great interest to you ... our new state-of-the-art facilities are also now available to industry for staff training and commercial/industrial research.Media
1.) Dr Daryl WIlliams explains more about the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant
2.) Robert Llewellyn, star of Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge, visits Imperial College to find out more about how energy will be sourced in the future. He talks to Dr Daryl WIlliams about the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant (credit: BT)
3.) Energy Live News cover the opening of the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant
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4.) An overview of the ChemEng Discovery Space (credit: ABB)
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5.) Dr Daryl Williams speaks to ABC radio about the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant (credit: ABC)
