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
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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
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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
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A multi-technique approach to characterise acidic surface properties of microporous catalysts
Microporous catalysts belong to a class of materials that exhibit pore networks in the molecular dimension, that is, channel diameters less than 2 nm. The industrially most important microporous catalysts are zeolites, ... -
Proteins Encoded by the gerP Operon Are Localized to the Inner Coat in Bacillus cereus Spores and Are Dependent on GerPA and SafA for Assembly.
(American Society for Microbiology, 2018-07-02)Germination of Bacillus spores is triggered by certain amino acids and sugar molecules, which permeate through the outermost layers of the spore to interact with receptor complexes that reside in the inner membrane. Previous ... -
ELM: super-resolution analysis of wide-field images of fluorescent shell structures.
(IoP, 2018-05-16)It is often necessary to precisely quantify the size of specimens in biological studies. When measuring feature size in fluorescence microscopy, significant biases can arise due to blurring of its edges if the feature is ...
