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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Colloidal phoretic motion
Phoretic motion refers to the transport of particles up or down the concentration gradient of a different solute and can be exploited to control particle motion. This thesis seeks to understand the relative importance of ... -
Terahertz spectroscopy to explore the role of vibrational dynamics in systems with varying structural order and disorder
Understanding the processes occurring in materials with varying structural order and disorder, such as pharmaceutical mixtures, has profound implications for drug formulation and delivery. Pharmaceutically active biological ... -
Innovative Deposition of Corrosion Inhibitors by Abrasive Blasting
Abrasive blasting of steel using garnet is a commercial surface cleaning procedure, for removing old corrosion scales and paint prior to the application of new coatings. A certain percentage of the garnet and its impurities ...