Research Interests
- Biomass, coal and waste conversion via thermochemical and other methods
- CO2 capture and storage, including from industrial processes
- Hydrogen technologies
- Oil and natural gas extraction, handling and processing
- Combustion and gasification
- The nuclear options
- Fuel Cell Technologies
- Unsteady/transient transport phenomena
Research Group Sites
Energy/Sustainability Driven Chemical Engineering
The transformation of energy and raw materials into electricity, heat, and other useful products underlies the modern world. For many years this has been done without sufficient regard to the impact on the environment and the long-term sustainability of the processes developed.
This research domain is concerned with developing new processes, and enhancing existing ones, to simultaneously boost economic value and reduce the impact on the environment of the production of products such as those above, to enable the necessary transformation to a sustainable future.
The emphasis of our research is to utilise our world-class experimental and theoretical facilities and expertise to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems.
One key aspect of our work is to (in collaboration with the Centre for Process Systems Engineering) to consider the integration of different processes, and how the heat flows from high grade through to low-grade uses, together with the interchanges of materials within and between processes to minimise overall environmental impact.
