Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
About this community
Includes research areas relevant to food, pharmaceuticals, water, energy and polymers (i.e. most aspects of our everyday life) and is centrally concerned with sustainable development and the related issues of safety, health and the environment
On 1 August 2008, the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Institute of Biotechnology merged to become the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
The Department of Chemical Engineering was founded in 1948. With the enormous advances in theory and practice since then, chemical engineering has developed from its initial base around the reaction and processing of liquids and gases to include the processing of biological materials and solid or solid-like materials of all kinds. Chemical engineering is thus relevant to food, pharmaceuticals, water, energy and polymers (i.e. most aspects of our everyday life) and is centrally concerned with sustainable development and the related issues of safety, health and the environment.
Key research areas:
- Processes: gasification and combustion, multi-scale reaction engineering, catalysis, bio-separations, gene therapy, carbon sequestration, adsorption-separations, granular flows, microreactor technology
- Microstructure Engineering: paste processing, rheology of complex fluids, pharmaceutical delivery, adsorbents, food engineering
- Measurement Techniques: sensors, X-ray diffraction, THz imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, laser analytics, reactive flow imaging, light scattering, fluid dynamic gauging
- Modelling: process optimisation: CFD, stochastic modelling, molecular modelling, analytical methods, lattice Boltzmann methods.
Sub-communities within this community
-
Polymer Fluids Group
Conducts research on the flow behaviour of materials; collection includes a wide range of scientific images and video sequences
Collections in this community
-
60th Anniversary - Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Presentations and photographs from the the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Department of Chemical Engineering -
Images - Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Departmental Images for the Department of Chemical Engineering
Recent Submissions
-
Upconversion Nanoparticles for pH Sensing and Imaging
(2020-02-22)Drug development studies and other applications in diagnostics/therapeutics require pH measurement down to the micro or nanoscale to provide relevant subcellular information, but the most widely used optical pH sensors ... -
The Engineering and Development of pH-Responsive Biopolymers for Drug Delivery Applications
(2019-11-30)This dissertation describes experimental studies to understand the structure of biocompatible pH responsive polymers and their interaction with the biological system in order to design more effective entities for biomedical ... -
Thermal stability criteria embedded in avanced control systems for batch process intensification
(2019-11-30)Thermal stability of batch processes is a major factor for the safe and efficient production of polymers and pharmaceutical chemicals. The prediction of thermal stability for such nonlinear, non steady-state processes is ... -
Biosensor design utilizing particle-bound enzymes
(2020-04-25)There is a clear need for affordable point-of-care diagnostics, especially in vulnerable low- and middle-income countries where access to laboratory-based testing is limited. This thesis explores whether recombinant protein ...
