Date |
Time |
Venue |
Speaker |
Title |
2019 |
29 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr James Hendry |
Pressure drop in RPBs |
22 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Hafsat Ibrahim |
Pre-treatment of biomass using ozone and ultrasound |
15 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jeremiah Corrigan |
Combining dynamic slow feature analysis with neural networks to improve
prediction performance for industrial process models |
08 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Akmal Rahim |
Intensification of Epoxidation of Vegetable Oil |
01 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Rousen Qi |
Fault Detection using PCA and Machine Learning |
25 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Guanqi Wang |
Dynamics of a Leidenfrost Self-Propelled Droplet |
18 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Jonathan McDonough |
The World's Smallest Torbed |
11 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ryo Toyoda, and
Chioma Udeozor |
The ETN-CHARMING Project |
04 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Chris Dixon |
Using MILP for the Identification of Kinetic Models |
Summer Break |
28 June |
12:00 |
Cassie Building, 3.25 |
Abdullahi Adamu |
Intensification of CO2 Reduction |
21 June |
All Day |
Boiler House |
Various |
27th Process Intensification Network Meeting
(links to presentations will be available soon) |
14 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Warm In-Na |
Algae bio-composites for carbon capture and storage |
7 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Aumber Abbas |
Conversion of biomass waste into advanced materials |
31 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Paulius Rasiukas |
A novel method for the parameter identification of large-scale hybrid
semi-parametric models |
24 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ibrahim Mohammed |
Reactive coupling of polyglycerol and biodiesel |
17 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Sreepathy Sridhar (Guest speaker from Northumbria University) |
A Soft Energy Harvester |
08 May |
14:30 |
L302 |
Prof Ian Wilson (Guest Speaker from University of Cambridge) |
Tank cleaning by impinging water jets: A case of coupled flows and
complex fluids |
03 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Kai Liu |
Dynamic modelling of nonlinear industrial processes using advanced
neural networks |
26 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Zakariah Adejoh |
Mitigation of Particulate Emissions from a Biomass Boiler using a Novel
Non-thermal Plasma Ionizer |
12 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Changhao Zhu |
Inferential Estimation of Polymer Melt Index using Bootstrap Aggregated
Deep Belief Networks |
5 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Greg Mutch |
Exploiting non-equilibrium conditions for efficient carbon dioxide
separation |
29 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Chris Dixon |
Identification of Reaction Networks using MILP |
22 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abdul Rehman |
Synthesis of limonene and styrene carbonate via CO2
cycloaddition |
15 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
James Hockaday |
Copper uptake by the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris |
08 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jeremiah Corrigan |
Nonlinear Modelling of the Chemical Durability of High Level Nuclear
Waste Glass |
01 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Akmal Bin Abdul Rahim |
Intensification of Epoxidation of Vegetable Oil |
22 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Salihu Musa |
Methanol concentration as a means to produce algal biodiesel in a foam
column |
15 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Long Duong |
Catalytic intensification of the pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass |
08 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Sahr Sana |
Solvent-antisolvent precipitation of starch nanoparticles in a spinning
disc reactor |
01 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Jonathan McDonough |
Micromixing in oscillatory baffled flows |
25 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Phuet Prasertcharoensuk |
Gasification of waste wood for H2 production |
18 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Introductions to New PhD Students |
Obaidullah Mohiuddin
Title TBC
Prayoon Enmak
Intensification of the Harvesting of Microalgae |
11 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr James Hendry |
Rotating Packed Beds for Carbon Capture |
2018 |
30 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan Harris |
Cold plasma initiated valorisation of waste glycerol |
23 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Harry Laing |
Investigation of control and on-line optimisation of a wastewater
treatment plant |
16 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Mohamad Faiz Gunam Resul |
Continuous epoxidation of renewable terpenes using novel "mesoscale"
3D-printed oscillatory baffled reactors |
09 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Faisal Saleem |
Conversion of benzene to methane |
02 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Lyes Kahouadji (Guest Speaker from Imperial College London) |
Vortex formation and aeration in an air-water mixing system using a
pitched blade turbine |
29 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Wissam Muhsin |
Modelling and Multi-Objective Optimisation of a Crude Oil Hydrotreating
Process Using Bootstrap Aggregated Neural Networks |
19 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jose Munoz (Visiting PhD Student) |
Analysis of the heat transfer, power consumption and flow patterns in
baffled tubes under oscillatory flow |
12 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Introductions to New PhD Students II |
Hafsat Ibrahim
Ultrasound-assisted Ozone pretreatment of biomass waste to chemical
platforms (5-hydroxymethyl furfural)
Abubakar Halidu
Production of Bio-Hydrogen from Agricultural Residues (Spelt Husks)
using Gasification Process
|
05 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Introductions to New PhD Students I |
Guanqi Wang
Dynamics of a Levitated Object (Leidenfrost Heat Engine)
Olatunde Akinbuja
Algae Based Bioelectrochemical Systems
Abdullahi Adamu
Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Chemical and Fuel |
Summer Break |
13 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
James Hockaday |
The Bioremediation of Selected Metal Ions by Selected Species Microalgae |
06 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof Paul Christensen |
Companies, near misses and cock ups: how not to be an academic
businessman... |
29 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Greg Mutch |
Single pore engineering and measurement of permeation rates via
visualisation |
15 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Tobechi Okoroafor |
Investigation of bio-production from CO2 using mixed culture |
08 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Mohamad Faiz Gunam Resul |
Continuous epoxidation of terpenes in mesoscale oscillatory baffled
reactors |
01 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Kui Zhang |
Development of a Non-thermal Plasma Device to Reduce Combustion
Particulate Emissions |
15 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Luma Al-Saadi |
Reactive coupling of glycerol transformation to solketal into biodiesel
production process using organic acid catalyst |
11 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Eka Utuk |
Real time monitoring of water pollution using microbial fuel cells |
04 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan Harris |
Cold plasma initiated direct conversion of waste cooking oils to fuels
and value added products |
27 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ahmed Al-Hatrooshi |
Marine Waste Biorefinery |
13 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Various |
David Okot
Pyrolysis of biomass briquettes
Dr Fernando Russo Abegao
Introduction to HE Toolbox Project (more info. is available in
Issue #9 of the newsletter) |
06 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ben Dannatt |
Biomass flue gas filtration optimisation - Industrial case study |
16 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Safaa Ahmed |
Developing a Scale-Up Correlation for Oscillatory Baffled Reactors based
on Mass Transfer Coefficient |
09 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Muayad Al-Karawi |
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae harvested by foam
flotation column |
02 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Jonathan McDonough |
Intensified Carbon Capture using Adsorption: Hydrodynamic Mapping of
Small-Scale Fluidized Beds |
23 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abdul Rehman |
Cyclic carbonate synthesis in the presence of silica-supported
aminpyridinium halide catalyst |
09 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Valentine Eze |
Phytoremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Soil and Recovery of Valuable
Arsenic Products |
02 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Faisal Saleem |
Effect of carrier gas on the removal of a tar analogue in
dielectric-barrier discharge reactor |
26 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Sahr Sana |
Solvent-antisolvent precipitation of starch nanoparticles in a spinning
disc reactor |
19 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Introduction to New PhD Students II |
Yi Zhang
Development of a Miniaturised Three-Phase Fluidized Bed Bioreactor
Zakariah Adu Adejoh
Particle Emissions from Biomass Boilers and Their Mitigation |
12 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Introductions to New PhD Students I |
Akmal Bin Abdul Rahim
Intensification of Epoxidation of Vegetable Oil
Long Duong
Upgrading bio-oil from pyrolysis of biomass
|
2017 |
15 Dec |
12:00 |
Buttery |
James Hendry |
Pressure Drop and Flooding in a Rotating Packed Bed |
08 Dec |
12:30 |
Buttery |
Luma Al-Saadi |
A study of process conditions required for high conversion of high free
fatty acid and water triglyceride feedstocks to biodiesel |
01 Dec |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ha Phan |
Converting biomass waste into activated carbon materials |
24 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Aumber Abbas |
Investigating the Conversion of Biomass-Waste into Graphene Quantum Dots |
17 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ibrahim Mohammed |
Combined Reactive Extraction and Reactive Coupling for Biodiesel and
Polyglycerol Production |
10 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Laura Diaz-Silvarrey |
Pyrolysis of plastic waste |
03 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Ana Lopez |
When microwaves & ultrasound processing should and should not be used |
27 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Various |
Regina de Monserrat Gonzalez Balderas
DSC study on the thermal properties of microalgae biomass and proteins
Dr Seham Moussa
Bio-electrogenic potential of microalgae in photo-biological fuel cell (PhFC)
using waste water and CO2
Oscar David Gonzalez Galvez
Production of bio-oils through the catalytic cracking of biomass
obtained from a wasterwater lake in Mexico |
20 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Warm In-Na |
Carbon capture and conversion using textile-based algae bio-composites |
06 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abbas Umar |
Adhesion screening protocol for the production of microalgae
bio-composites for CO2 mitigation |
29 Sep |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Salihu Musa |
Possibility of recovering Nanochloropsis cells using foam
separation column |
Summer Break |
14 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Muayad Al-Karawi |
Bubble-microalgae collection probability and flotation kinetics in foam
flotation column |
07 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Tobechi Okoroafor |
The sustainability of using carbon dioxide in microbial electrosynthesis |
30 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof Hyoungsoo Kim |
Fluid and interface problems in Tokamak, oil and alcohol |
21 June |
All Day |
L101 |
Various |
25th Process Intensification Network (PIN) Meeting
Talks from PI group members:
-Absorption of CO2 from a simulated flue gas using a rotating
packed bed with counter/co/crossflow of the gas phase (Jon Lee)
-Some surprises in a conventional stirred reactor: discovery, theory and
potential applications (Steven Wang)
Impromptu talks from PI group members:
-Mass transfer enhancement as a function of the oscillatory baffled
reactor design (Safaa Ahmed)
-Applications of 3D printed fluidic oscillators for process
intensification (Jonathan McDonough)
-Ozoflotation for microalgae harvesting from wastewater (Sharon
Velasquez-Orta) |
20 June |
All Day |
L101 |
Various |
34th
HEXAG Meeting
Talks from PI group members:
-Polymer hollow fibre heat exchangers - current developments and
applications under an INNOVATE project (David Reay) |
16 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Faisal Saleem |
Non Thermal Plasma Assisted Hydrocracking of Tar Analogue in Dielectric
Barrier Discharge Reactor |
09 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Ahmad Mustaffar |
IbD: Twin Screw Granulator for use in the pharmaceuticals industry |
02 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ahmed Al-Hatrooshi |
Marine Waste Biorefinery |
26 May |
All Day |
Research Beehive |
Various |
2017 PGR Student Conference
Featured talks from 2nd and 3rd year research students and posters from
1st year research students |
19 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abbas Umar |
CO2 mitigation using algae bio-composite |
12 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
David Okot |
Briquetting of waste biomass for pyrolysis |
05 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Luma Al-Saadi |
Use of 4-Dodecylbenzenesulfonic Acid (DBSA) Catalyst on the Methanolysis
of the Rapeseed oil in Meso- Integral Baffled Reactor |
28 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Phuet Prasertcharoensuk |
Gasification of waste wood for hydrogen production |
21 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Safaa Ahmed |
Mass Transfer Enhancement as a Function of the OBR's Design |
07 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Greg Mutch |
Carbon Capture and Storage: Investigating Surface Chemistry by
in-situ Vibrational Spectroscopy |
24 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Mohamad Gunam Resul |
Intensification of Terpenes Epoxidation |
17 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Valentine Eze |
Biodiesel from Waste Cooking Oil |
10 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Sahr Sana |
Solvent-antisolvent precipitation of starch nanoparticles in a spinning
disc reactor |
03 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Akeem Babatunde |
Reactive Coupling of Rapeseed for Production of Biodiesel and
Polyglycerol |
24 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Laura Diaz Silvarrey |
Conventional, catalytic and non-thermal assisted pyrolysis of waste high
density polyethylene (HDPE) |
17 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan Harris |
Plasma Initiated Upgrading: Investigating non-thermal plasma assisted
upgrading of bio-oil model compounds |
10 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan McDonough |
Characterisation of fluidic oscillators and their applications in
process intensification |
3 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Richard Law |
Heat Transfer in OBRs and Potential Heat Exchanger Applications |
27 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Aumber Abbas
Ibrahim Mohammed |
Short introductions to PhD Projects |
13 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ha Phan
James Hockaday |
Short introductions to PhD Projects |
2016 |
9 Dec |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Haoyu Wang |
IbD: Solids Handling in Taylor-Couette Reactors |
2 Dec |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Toluwanimi Kolawole |
Pilot-scale post-combustion CO2 capture using a rotating
packed bed: Mass transfer studies and CO2-loading analysis
method development |
18 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Ana Lopez |
Sustainable Polymers: Process Intensification of Terpene Epoxidation
(using microwave heating) |
4 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abdul Rehman |
Cyclic carbonates synthesis from epoxides and CO2: Batch to Continuous |
28 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Pierrot Attidekou |
Non Destructive Technique (NDT) for lithium ion battery (LiB) assessment |
21 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Xenia Christodoulou |
Economic and empirical investigation of bioelectrochemical systems for
CO2 utilisation |
14 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Brian Ray |
Synchrotron radiation used to probe a working reactor bed in-situ
via X-Ray diffraction |
07 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof Glen McHale |
Liquid adventures with smart surfaces (more information
here) |
30 Sep |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Steven Wang |
Unexpected trapping of particles in stirred flow: dynamics and
applications |
Summer Break |
15 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Oscar Andres Prado Rubio |
Process intensification through dynamic operation of membrane technology |
08 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof Javier Alzate |
Membrane technology aided process intensification |
21 June |
All Day |
Research Beehive |
Various |
24th Process Intensification Network (PIN) Meeting
Talks from PI group members:
-'Intensified by Design' - Overview of the IbD project and the case
studies (Frans Muller and David Reay)
-Fluidisation - some concepts for carbon capture and power plant cooling
water use minimisation (Vladimir Zivkovic)
-Preliminary results regarding membrane intensification using
oscillatory flows (Takafumi Horie)
-Scale-up of oscillatory helically baffled OBRs (Safaa Ahmed) |
20 June |
All Day |
Research Beehive |
Various |
33rd HEXAG Meeting.
Talks from PI group members:
-Heat exchanger fouling prevention - learning from the Horizon 2020
'Intensified by Design' Project (David Reay)
-Heat pipes in an oscillatory baffled reactor (Jonathan McDonough)
-Enhancing the performance and thermal control of liquid-cooled heat
sinks using oscillatory flows (Richard Law) |
17 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan McDonough |
A study of the flow structures generated by oscillating flows in a
helically baffled tube |
10 June |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Malik Musthofa |
Non-catalytic cracking of rapeseed |
3 June |
All Day |
Research Beehive |
Various |
2016 PGR Conference
Featured
talks from 2nd and 3rd year research
students and posters from 1st year research students |
27 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan McDonough |
Isothermalisation: passive temperature flattening of an exothermic
reaction using a Heat Pipe Oscillatory Baffled Reactor (HPOBR) |
13 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Fernando Russo-Abegao
Valentine Eze
Richard Law |
Short introductions to IfS grants |
6 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Teuku Mukhriza |
Plasma Fischer Tropsch Synthesis |
22 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abbas Umar |
Using Sodium dodecylsulphate and Foam Column Separation to Remove
Ciliates from Microalgae Culture |
15 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Valentine Eze |
Phyto-remediation approach for recovery of heavy metal (loids) from
contaminated soil |
08 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Laura Diaz-Silvarrey |
Kinetic study of municipal plastic waste |
01 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Safaa Ahmed |
Scale-up of oscillatory helically baffled OBRs |
18 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ruili Feng |
Continuous flow intensification of ortho-lithiation at ambient
temperature |
11 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Takafumi Horie |
Process intensification of a trickle bed reactor with Taylor (slug) flow |
04 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof David Reay |
Introduction to the "Intensified by Design" (IbD) project |
26 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Abdul Rehman |
Cycloaddition of carbon dioxide (CO2) to sustainable epoxides |
19 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Mohamad Gunam Resul |
Intensification of terpene epoxidation using meso-scale oscillatory
baffled reactors |
12 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ahmad Mustaffar |
|
05 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Kui Zhang |
Treatment of gasifier effluents with Non-Thermal Plasmas |
29 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Toluwanimi Kolawole |
Reactive absorption of CO2 in aqueous N,N-Diethylethanolamine (DEEA)
solution using a stirred cell reactor |
22 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Muayad Al-Karawi |
Harvesting and Conversion to Fuel of Algal Biomass |
15 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Akeem Babatunde |
|
08 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Various |
Introduction to new PhD students:
-Luma Al-Saadi
-Faisal Saleem
-Sahr Sana
-David Okot
-Phuet Prasertcharoensuk |
2015 |
04 Dec |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ahmed Al Hatrooshi |
Marine waste biorefinery |
27 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Chukwuma Anyigor |
Gas hydrate based CO2 separation using a rotating system |
20 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan Harris |
Plasma assisted upgrading of pyrolysis oil |
13 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Xenia Christodoulou |
Biochemical Production from CO2 using Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 as
Catalyst in Bioelectrochemical Systems |
06 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Ana Lopez |
Sustainable Polymers: Process Intensification of Epoxidation of Terpenes |
30 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof Michael Flickinger |
Can Biocomposite Materials Intensify the Reactivity of Living Cells as
Biocatalysts? |
23 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Fernando Russo Abegao |
MRI of Catalytic Reactors, Industrial Catalysis and Biorenewable
Processes: My Research Journey |
17 Jul |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Teuku Mukhriza |
Plasma Fischer-Tropsch synthesis |
10 Jul |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Daniela Lavric (Corning Microreactors) |
Corning Advanced Flow Reactors: Process Intensification at Work |
03 Jul |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Safaa Ahmed |
Scale-up of helically baffled OBRs |
19 Jun |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan McDonough |
Swirling flows in helically baffled meso-OBRs: CFD approach |
12 Jun |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Richard Law |
Fluidic oscillators for intensified heat transfer and chemical reactors |
29 May |
All day |
Research Beehive |
Various |
CEAM PGR Conference |
22 May |
All day |
Research Beehive |
Various |
Process Intensification Network (PIN) annual meeting |
15 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Malik Musthofa |
FTIR analysis of the liquid products of thermal and catalytic treatment
of rapeseed oil |
01 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ahmad Mustaffar |
From CT scan to CFD analysis: Characterisation and flow analysis of a
novel metal foam |
24 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Jeet Varia |
Microbial electrochemical systems for metal recovery |
17 Apr |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Kejun Wu |
Hydrodynamic study of single and two phase flow in an Advanced Flow
Reactor |
27 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Auwal Aliyu |
Thermogravimetric analysis of
Chlorella Vulgaris and
Chlorella
Vulgaris residue after lipid extraction |
20 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan McDonough |
Development of a Heat pipe OBR (preliminary results) |
13 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Xenia Christodoulou |
Bioelectrocatalysis |
06 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Lorenzo Turetta & Dr Somaieh Mohammadi |
Micromixing
study in SDR |
27 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Kui Zhang |
Non-thermal plasma assisted CO2 decomposition at low temperatures and
ambient pressure |
20 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Valentine Eze |
Nanoparticles
from Biomass |
13 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Pier Paolo Greco |
Sustainable Polymers |
06 Feb |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Yann Lecouturier |
TBC |
30 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Akeem Babatunde |
In-situ transesterification (title tbc) |
23 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Jeet Varia |
My research career so far |
16 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof Adam Harvey |
Seminar series 2015 kick off |
2014 |
28 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Safaa Ahmed
Laura Diaz
Jonathan Harris |
Short introductions to their PhD projects |
07 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Daniel Frankel |
Introduction to CEAM 3D printer |
31 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Christophe Len (Nottingham University) |
Organic chemistry in water and other alternative technologies. See
abstract here. |
17 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Harvey Arellano-Garcia (Bradford University) |
Model-based optimal experimental design: An approach to accelerating
process development |
10 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Mike Carroll |
Process automation and medical imaging |
03 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Somaieh Mohammadi |
Titanium dioxide production on a spinning disc reactor |
12 Sep |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Sharon Velasquez-Orta |
An introduction to Sharon's research |
05 Sep |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Richard Abernethy |
Development of the "Mesomodule" |
11 July |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Prof. David Reay |
Journal publication advice. David's talk, "A good paper for Applied
Thermal Engineering", is available to download
here |
09 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Martin Gough (CalGavin) |
Tube Inserts for Process Intensification |
28 April |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Teuku Mukhriza |
Integrated Plasma Reactors for Catalytic Syngas Conversion to Fuels and
Chemicals |
11 April |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Chukwuma Anyigor |
Methods for Moving Stranded and Associated Gas to Market |
04 April |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Tolu Kolawole |
Process Intensification: Absorption and desorption of carbon dioxide
with Tertiary amines using Higee Technology |
28 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Akeem Babatunde |
In situ transesterification of rapeseed for biodiesel production |
21 Mar |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Jonathan McDonough |
Process Development Using Oscillatory Baffled Mesoreactors |
17 Jan |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr MookTzeng Lim |
Dual bed gasification |
2013 |
29 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Kui Zhang |
Non Thermal Plasma and its Application in Chemistry: Ozone Generation,
Volatile Organic Compounds Remediation and Fuel Synthesis |
15 Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Eric Siqueiros Valencia |
Efficiency of Steam Generation and Waste Utilisation in a Spirit Plant |
1st Nov |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr Richard Burkitt |
Evaluation of Anion Exchange Membranes for use in
Microbial Fuel Cells |
18 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Dr
Ana Dueso-Villalba |
Iron oxide-MIEC hybrid materials for hydrogen production by chemical
looping |
04 Oct |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Richard Abernethy |
Cooling Crystallization of L-glutamic Acid in MesoOBRs |
27 Sept |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Valentine Eze |
Oscillatory Mesoreactors Biodiesel Screening: Latest Findings |
13 Sept |
14:00 |
Buttery |
Ketan Pancholi |
Increasing the Efficiency of Phototchemical Reaction using Photonics
Approach |
06 Sept |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Richard Law |
A Knowledge-based System for Waste Heat Recovery |
30 Aug |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Kamoru Salam |
Reactive Extraction for making Biodiesel from Microalgae |
09 Aug |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Various |
Northern Postgraduate Conference |
02 Aug |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Xenia Christodoulou |
Bioelectrochemical Systems |
26 Jul |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Matthew Abbot |
Bioprocessing in oscillatory baffled reactors (OBR): Enzymatic
saccharification case study |
19 Jul |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Komo |
Wastewater Algae |
12 Jul |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Malik Musthofa |
Catalytic Cracking of Vegetable Oil |
28 Jun |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Victoria Outram |
Processing Options for Biobutanol |
21 Jun |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Sebastien Koch |
Growth and Potential of mixed microalgae culture for Biofuel Production |
24 May |
PIN and HEXAG Meetings |
10 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Daniel Frankel |
AFM for the Chemical Engineer |
03 May |
12:00 |
Buttery |
Ahmad Mustaffar |
Applications of heat pipe in thermal energy storage |
19 Apr |
13:00 |
Buttery |
Richard Abernethy |
Crystalization of L-glutamic Acid in Oscillatory Baffled Mesoreactors |
12 Apr |
13:00 |
Buttery |
Somaieh Mohammadi |
Crystalization of TiO2 on SDRs |
2012 |
12 Dec |
12pm |
C203 |
Dr Jon Lee |
Carbon Capture using Rotating Packed Beds |
30 Nov |
12pm |
Buttery |
Kamoru Salam |
Intensification of Algal Biodiesel Production |
23 Nov |
12pm |
Buttery |
Dr Thea Coward |
Algae Separation using Foam |
2 Nov |
12pm |
Buttery |
Richard Abernethy |
Crystallization in Mesoscale Oscillatory Baffled Reactors |
16 Aug |
13pm |
C202 |
Fatimah Mohd Rasdi
Nasratun Masngut
|
Rapid Determination of the Reaction Kinetics of n-butylbenzaldimine
Synthesis Using a Novel Mesoscale Oscillatory Baffled Reactor
Intensification of Butanol Production in Batch OBB
|
6 July |
12pm |
C202/203 |
Dr Vindhya Salwatura |
Biosensor Design for BOD |
22 June |
12.30pm |
C202/203 |
Matthew Abbott |
Bioprocess Development in Oscillatory Baffled Reactors |
25 May |
13pm |
C202 |
Somaieh Mohammadi |
Online Conductivity Measurement of Residence Time Distribution of Thin
Film Flow in the Spinning Disc Reactor |
16 Mar |
12.30pm |
C202 |
Nasratun Masngut |
Intensification of Biobutanol Production in a Batch Oscillatory Baffled
Bioreactor |
Fatimah Mohd Rasdi |
Single Phase Reaction Screening Using Mesoscale-OBR |
Valentine Eze |
Intensification of Continuous Production of Biodiesel Using New Designs
of Oscillatory Baffled Mesoreactors |
20 Jan |
12pm |
C202 |
Dr Daniel Frankel |
Biological interfaces, from the origins of life to cyborg robots |
2011 |
25 Nov |
12pm |
C203 |
Elizabeth Eterigho |
Synthesis of sulphated
zirconias with improved catalytic properties for biodiesel production |
11 Nov |
3pm |
C202 |
Jose de Oliveira Lima |
Novel heterogeneous catalyst development and its application using
oscillatory baffled reactors for biodiesel production. |
21 Oct |
12pm |
C202/203 |
Richard Law
Tri Handayani |
Opportunities for Low-grade Heat Recovery in the UK Food Processing
Industry
Opportunities for Organic Rankine cycles in the Process Industries |
23 Sept |
12pm |
C203 |
Prof Allen Wright |
Intensifying Reactive Distillation |
16 Sept |
12pm |
C202 |
Fatimah Mohd Rasdi |
Characterisation of meso-OBR and imine synthesis
|
19 Aug |
12pm |
C203 |
Richard Law
Tri Handayani |
High Temperature Heat Pump for Raising Process Steam
from Low-grade industrial waste heat
A review of organic Rankine cycle working fluid
selection
|
5 Aug |
12pm |
C203 |
Valentine Eze |
Intensified Homogeneous Transesterification in Novel
Mesoscale Oscillatory Baffle Reactors
|
22 July |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Danai Poulidi |
Novel membrane reactors for catalyst activity control
|
8 July |
3pm |
C203 |
Eyitayo Amos |
Hydrodynamics in a Cyclone: A single Phase PIV
Measurements and CFD Simulations
|
17 June |
3pm |
M413 |
Prof. Chris Greenwell |
Mineral catalysed deoxygenation reactions - learning
new tricks from a very old process
|
3 June |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Anh Phan |
Mesoscale Oscillatory Baffled Reactors |
20 May |
3pm |
C202 |
Elinor Shilling
Mr Barnaby Baxter |
Biodiesel production by in situ
transesterification
Biofuels production by catalytic
cracking
|
6 May |
3pm |
C202 |
Callum Campbell
|
Liquid Organic Hydrides: The MTH System
|
25 Mar |
3pm |
C203 |
Nasratun Masngut
|
Intensification of biobutanol production using
oscillatory baffled bioreactors
|
10 Mar |
3pm |
C203 |
Thea Coward
|
Development and Evaluation of Foam Fractionation as a Potential Low
Cost Micro-algae Harvesting Technology
|
25 Feb |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Paul E Bilsborrow |
The Cockle Park Anaerobic Digestion Facility |
11 Feb |
3pm |
C203 |
Hilary Redden
|
To be confirmed |
28 Jan |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr. Maria Elena Rivas Velazco
|
Structure and Reactivity of Nickel Catalysts for
Reactions of Decomposition and Reforming of Methane
|
14 Jan |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Barbara Sturm |
Process Efficiency in Drying of Sensitive Biological
Products
|
2010 |
10 Dec |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Kui Zhang |
Zeolite Synthesis Characterization, Modification and
Application in Industrial Catalysis
|
26 Nov |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr
Alan Harper |
Opportunities for PI in the Distillery Industry
|
12 Nov |
3pm |
M413 |
Naimah Ibrahim |
Enhancing Electrochemical Promotion through Catalyst
Surface Modification
|
29 Oct |
3pm |
C202 |
Richard Burkitt |
Non-Platinum Oxygen Reduction Catalysts for a
Microbial Fuel Cell
|
15 Oct |
3pm |
C202 |
Mr Arthur Gough |
Plate Reactors- Potential and Problems
|
24 Sept |
3pm |
C202 |
Nasratun Masngut |
Intensification of Biobutanol Production
|
10 Sept |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Ruth Herrero |
Heat Transfer Enhancement in Thermal Solar Collectors with Wire Coil
Inserts
|
27 Aug |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Dena Ghiasy |
Control of Intensified Equipment: pH Control in a
Spinning Disc Reactor
|
13 Aug |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Dr Sharon Velasquez |
Bioelectricity Production from Organic Compounds using
Microbial Fuel Cells
|
30 July |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Dr Juan Solano |
Analysis of
Flow Field and Heat Transfer in Reciprocating Scraped Surface Heat
Exchangers |
16 July |
3pm |
C202
|
Farizul Kasim |
Reactive Extraction of Jatropha seeds
for Biodiesel Production |
18 June |
3pm |
C202
|
Eyitayo Afolabi |
CFD simulation of multiphase flow in a gas-liquid-liquid cylindrical cyclone compact separator |
25 May |
9.30-5 |
Beehive |
|
PIN meeting |
23 April |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Rafael Vilar Franca |
The use of Perovskites hollow-fibre membrances
for hydrogen production |
19 Mar |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Heather Todd |
Catalysts in Batch Reactive Distillation |
19 Feb |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Arul Murugan |
The use of Perovskites as oxygen carriers for
hydrogen production by a novel chemical looping process |
15 Jan |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Elizabeth Eterigho |
Development of Heterogeneous Catalyst for
Triglyceride Cracking |
2009 |
20 Nov |
3pm |
C203 |
Thea Coward |
Low Cost Algae Harvesting Technologies |
16 Oct |
3pm |
C202 |
Joseph Ikwebe |
Intensification of bioethanol production |
18 Sept |
3pm |
C202 |
Hilary Redden |
Macroalgae as a potential biofuel |
1 May |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Andrea Humphries |
Sustainable Technology Research and
Demonstration Projects at Harper Adams University College |
20 Mar |
3pm |
C203 |
Din Wan Yussof |
Ion Exchange Resins as Heterogeneous Catalysts
for Biodiesel Production |
6 Mar |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Anh Phan |
Meso-scale continuous oscillatory baffled
reactors |
20 Feb |
3pm |
C202/C203 |
Dr Adam Harvey |
Reactive Extraction for Biodiesel Production |
6 Feb |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Yilong Ren |
Adaptive Processing of
Natural Feedstocks |
16 Jan |
3pm |
C202/C203 |
Hillary Redden |
Rare Fibre production from Goats and South
American Camelids |
2008
|
12 Dec |
8pm |
|
Many PIGs |
Large-scale Study of Intensification of Eating Curry |
7 Nov |
3pm |
C203 |
Claudia Troger
Danai Poulidi |
OBR
Beer Production Protons in Ceramics |
17 Oct |
3pm |
C203 |
Adam Harvey
Jon Lee |
New
PhD Students' Projects |
19 Sept |
3pm |
C203 |
Stephane Vallois |
Evaluation of Spinning Disc Reactor for the Production of
a Monomer: Tripropylene Glycol Diacrylate |
5 Sept |
2pm |
C202/203 |
Dr Danai Poulidi |
Protons in Ceramics II,
Attack of the Perovskites |
14 Aug |
3pm |
Design Suite |
Dr Glen Mather |
Protons in Ceramics |
1 Aug |
3pm |
C202/203 |
Francesco dal Grande |
Microstructure and Performance of Novel Ni
Anode for Hollow Fibre Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
20 Jun |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Jon Lee |
Rotating Packed Beds |
6 Jun |
3pm |
C203 |
Prof. David Reay |
Heat Pipes for Control - Can they be used in
Chemical Reactors? |
16 May |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Dr Kamelia Boodhoo |
Spinning Disc Reactors: Basic Operating
Principles |
2 May |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Dr Yilong Ren |
Applications of Micro- and Nanomanipulation in
Material and Biomaterial Science |
18 Apr |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Craig Cartwright |
Comparison of Rushton
Turbine and Mesh Impellers of Fermentation of E.Coli |
4 Apr |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Khairizal Mahat
Claudia Trogger |
Reactor Technology for
Reactive Extraction of Biodiesel
Oscillatory Baffled
Reactors |
28 Mar |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Rabitah Zakaria
Salah Al-Hengari |
Reactive Extraction of
Biodiesel
Mixing
characteristics of a Spinning Disc Reactor |
7 Mar |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Dr Anh Phan |
Combustion/Pyrolysis/Gasification
of Segregated Waste |
8 Feb |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Prof Yusuf Chisti, Massey
Univ, NZ |
Opportunities for
Bioprocess Intensification |
29 Jan |
4pm |
Buttery |
Prof Yusuf Chisti, Massey
Univ, NZ |
Biochemical
engineering research at Massey University and Renewable biodiesel from
microalgae |
18 Jan |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Danai Poulidi |
Catalyst remote control for
oxidation reactions |
2007 |
7 Dec |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Jon Lee |
Steamless cracking |
2 Nov |
3pm |
C203 |
Rabitah Zakaria |
Reactive Extraction of
Oilseeds for Biodiesel Production |
5 Oct |
3pm |
C203 |
Prof David Reay (Heriot
Watt) |
The role of PI in cutting
greenhouse gas emissions |
18 Sept |
3pm |
Civic Centre |
Various |
Newcastle University Moffitt
Biofuels Symposium |
7 Sept |
2pm |
C203 |
Dr Marija Vicevic |
Adipic Acid Crystallization on the
SDR |
24 Aug |
3pm |
M413a |
Chris Dobie |
Bulk free radical
photo-copolymerisation using intensified technologies |
3 Aug |
3pm |
M413a |
Vacation Students:
-
Kerri Price, QUB
-
Laura Broad, Camb
-
Kent Leong, ICL
-
Rahman Mohmad, Sheff
-
Andreina Bolivar, Birm
|
Presentations:
-
Intensification of Brewing
-
Biodiesel from Algae 1
-
Biodiesel from Algae 2
-
Reflectance Spectroscopy of
Pharmaceuticals
-
Copolymerisation in Narrow Channels
|
20 July |
3pm |
M413a |
Prof Allen Wright |
Process Development |
06 July |
3pm |
M413a |
Eddie McCarthy |
Size Control in
Emulsion Polymerisation |
15 Jun |
3pm |
M413a |
Claire MacLeod |
Heterogeneous Guanidines for
Catalysis of Vegetable Oil Transesterification |
16 Mar |
3pm |
M413a |
Prof Ian Metcalfe |
Wastewater Treatment |
2 Mar |
3pm |
M413a |
Prof Elaine Martin |
Experimental Design |
16 Feb |
3pm |
M413a |
Dr Ian Potts |
Newcastle's New Particle Image Velocimetry
Facility |
2 Feb |
3pm |
M413a |
Mohammed Ellob |
Intensification of the Steam Cracking Process |
2006 |
15 Dec |
4pm |
C203 |
Angoon Suksumai |
Intermediate
Temperature Operation of an Y-doped BaCeO3 SOFC |
1 Dec |
3pm |
C203 |
Craig Cartwright |
Working with Microbes |
16 Nov |
9.30am - 4.45pm |
Beehive |
"PIN 13" |
13th Meeting of the
Process Intensification Network [PIN] |
3 Nov |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Jon Lee |
Hold-up in a
Flooded Rotating Packed Bed |
20 Oct |
4pm |
C203 |
Dr Adam Harvey &
Dr Kamelia Boodhoo |
Introducing the new PhD
students and their projects |
1 Sept |
3pm |
C203 |
Yoke Ling Lee |
Oxygen transfer enhancement using porous mesh impellers: an analysis of
bubble size distribution |
18 Aug |
3pm |
C203 |
1. Dr Marija Vicevic
2. Ramneek Khurana |
1. "Kinetics of Methyl
Methacrylate Free Radical Polymerisation in the SDR"
2. "Producing Biodiesel
Directly from Jatropha Seeds" |
4 Aug |
3pm |
C203 |
Dr Kamelia Boodhoo |
"Photopolymerisation on the
Spinning Disc Reactor" |
21 July |
2pm |
C202 |
Dr Jon Lee |
"Biodiesel Production
by Vegetable Oil Cracking" |
7 July |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Adam Harvey |
"All you ever wanted
to know about Biodiesel" |
9 Jun |
3pm |
C202 |
MEng Students |
1. Intensified Beer
Production using OFR
2. Biodiesel from Algae in Microreactors
3. Biodiesel Extraction
directly from Oilseeds
4. Spinning Cone
Crystallization
5. Batch Polymerisation |
26 May |
3pm |
C202 |
Lightning Mixers Ltd |
"Mixing & Mixing
Devices" |
12 May |
3pm |
C202 |
Ivano Gregoratto,
INEx |
"Microhydrocyclones
for Blood Separations" |
|
|
|
|
|
31 Mar |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Danai Poulidi |
"Catalyst Promoters" |
17 Mar |
3pm |
C202 |
Dr Alan Thursfield |
"Membrane Combustion" |
3 Mar |
3pm |
C202 |
New Phd Students:
1. Mohammed Ellob
2.Craig Cartwright |
"Catalytic Plate Reactors
for Ethylene Production"
"Increasing
the Oxygen Mass Transfer in Bioprocess Systems" |
17 Feb |
3pm |
C202 |
Prof Allen Wright |
"Preventing Potential
Runaways" |
3 Feb |
3pm |
C202 |
Drs Harvey, Lee & Boodhoo
introducing this year's MEng
Projects: |
1. Intensified Beer
Production using OFR [APH]
2. Biodiesel from Algae in Microreactors [APH & JGML]
3. Biodiesel Extraction
directly from Oilseeds [APH & JGML]
4. Spinning Cone
Crystallization [JGML]
5. Batch Polymerisation [KVKB] |
2005 |
9 Dec |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Claire MacLeod |
"Heterogeneous Catalysts for
Biodiesel" |
25 Nov |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Youssef Jammoal |
"Work in Progress" |
11 Nov |
3pm |
C202/3 |
Arthur Gough |
"Catalytic Plate Reactors" |
23 Oct |
4pm |
Buttery |
Bob Skelton,
Cambidge
Univ. |
CEAM Seminar: An
Intensified Biodiesel Production Process |
14 Oct |
1pm |
C202 |
Rachel Buckle
Shafreeza Sobri |
"Electrochemical Recovery of
Tin from Solution"
"Growth of Gold Crystals" |
30 Sept |
2pm |
C202 |
Samaneh Nouraei |
"Analysis of Microfabrication without Photolithography on Substrates" |
16 Sept |
3pm |
C203 |
Ian Metcalfe |
"Process Intensification using
Fuel Cells" |
2 Sept |
3pm |
C202 |
Yousef Jammoal |
"A Molecular-Based Model for Precipitation Processes: Application to the
Semi-Batch Crystallization of L-Glutamic Acid via the acidification of
Monosodium Glutamate with HCl" |
19
Aug |
3pm |
Buttery |
MSc
Students |
Short
presentations |
5 Aug |
3pm |
C203 |
Marija
Vicevic |
"Alpha Pinene Oxide Production on Spinning Discs" |
22 Jul |
3pm |
C203 |
Claire
MacLeod |
"Spray
Freezing of Coffee" |
8 Jul |
3pm |
C202 |
Ryan
McGlen |
"Heat
Pipes" |
27 Jun |
3pm |
C202 |
Graham
Lewis |
"Heat
Transfer on Spinning Discs" |
10 Jun |
3pm |
C203 |
MEng Students |
Short Presentations |
27 May |
3pm |
C202 |
Eddie
McCarthy |
"Precipitation of Barium Sulphate in Microreactors" |
13
May |
3pm |
C203 |
Various |
Restart meeting |