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Wastewater Bioremediation from Filamentous Algae |
Dr Andrea JC Semiao, Dr Michele Stanley (SAMS), Dr John G Day (SAMS)
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This Ph.D. aims to investigate the potential of filamentous green macroalgae (Chlorophyta) to bioremediate wastewaters. This will examine the ability of the macroalgae to sequester excess nutrients in effluent streams, as well as its biosorption and bioaccumulation capacity for heavy metals; with an end goal of using the biomass as a feedstock for bioenergy or for metal reclamation.
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VELaSSCo: Visualization for Extremely Large-scale Scientific Computing |
Prof. Jin Ooi
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The Vision of VELaSSCo is to provide new approaches for visual analysis of large-scale simulations for the Exabyte era. It does this by building on big data tools and architectures for the engineering and scientific community and by adopting new ways of in-situ processing for data analytics and hardware accelerated interactive visualization.
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Using short-ranged repulsion to tune suspension viscosity and shear thickening |
Dr. Jin Sun
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Dense suspensions of solid particles exhibit rich and fascinating flow behaviour.
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Transporting, handling and storing behaviour of iron ore fines |
Prof. Jin Ooi
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This project attempts to deal with the challenges associated with handling and storage of cohesive solids in the mining industry. An adhesive-frictional model has been recently developed for DEM simulation of cohesive particles at the University of Edinburgh. This project will exploit the new method for modelling cohesive particulates for specific problems, such as effect of fines in silo discharge and the effect of time consolidation.
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TRANSFER: Evaluation and Optimization of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness with an Integrated Experimental/Modeling Approach #2 |
Prof Albert Simeoni
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Over the past ten years, ca. US$ 5.6 billion has been spent on hazardous fuel reduction to treat an average of ca. 2.5 million acres per year across the United States. These expenditures represent one of the primary strategies for the mitigation of catastrophic wildland fire events. At the local scale, the placement and implementation of fuel reduction treatments is complex, involving trade-offs between environmental impacts, threatened and endangered species mitigation, funding, smoke management, parcel ownership, litigation, and weather conditions. Because of the cost and complexity involved, there is a need for implementing treatments in such a way that hazard mitigation, or other management objectives, are optimized.
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T-MAPPP: Training in Multiscale Analysis of multi-Phase Particulate Processes |
Prof. Jin Ooi
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T-MAPPP is an Initial Training Network funded by FP7 Marie Curie Actions with 10 full partners and 6 associate partners, aiming to train the next generation of researchers who can support and develop the emerging inter- and supra-disciplinary community of Multiscale Analysis (MA) of multi Phase Particulate Processes.
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Sustainable desalination with the implementation of forward osmosis |
Dr Andrea Joana Correia Semiao
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The aim of this study is to investigate the various factors affecting membrane fouling and its reversibility in forward osmosis. Understanding these could advance the optimisation of forward osmosis, which will encourage the implementation of this process prior to reverse osmosis desalination.
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Sustainable Oxidation Processes for the treatment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products |
Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
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My research focuses on the removal of selected micro contaminants and potential Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) from water and wastewater by means of the photocatalytic process as well as on the investigation of method’s sustainability.
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Simulation of dense suspensions with discrete element method and a coupled lattice Boltzmann method |
Dr. Jin Sun
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Suspensions, mixtures of a fluid and particles, are widespread in nature and industry. However, many open questions, such as the particle interactions in dense suspensions, have not been answered [1].
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Simulation of Irregular, Abradable Particles in DEM |
Dr Kevin Hanley
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Particle shape has important effects on bulk materials as sandpiles and mixtures; temporal changes of the shape (e.g. due to surface abrasion) also have severe consequences in many industrial sectors. To represent irregular particles, a compact “irregularity function” can be stored for each particle which describes how the shape deviates from a bounding sphere. Abrasion can be studied by adopting irregularity functions which can change with time depending on contact force.
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