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Modelling and measurement for oil and gas multi-phase flows - SPH-DEM fluid-particle simulation and validation |
Dr Filipe Teixeira-Dias
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Infrastructure and Environment |
The exploration and development of deeper wells with heavier and more viscous oils, requiring greater operating pressures and more fracture to fissures to release the oils. This results in significantly increased sand content that has the potential to bring about a fundamental shift in flow behaviour. This project aims to investigate the potential – and develop – a coupled smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and discrete element method (DEM) model to simulate high-pressure multi-phase flows with support from an extensive experimental programme and industrial collaboration.
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Bioenergy from waste for sustainable heat and power production |
Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon, Prof Tina Düren (University of Bath), Dr Blanca Antizar Ladislao
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Infrastructure and Environment |
This research project is investigating ways to increase the bio methane potential of food waste through a combination of laboratory and desk based studies. The aim being to increase sustainable heat, power and biofertiliser production through anaerobic digestion.
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Nanomaterials for water treatment |
Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
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Infrastructure and Environment |
This project will use novel catalytic nanoparticles for water treatment with emphasis given on the removal of emerging micro-pollutants, such as Bisphenol A (BPA).
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Bacterial Removal from Recycled Water from Aquaculture Activities |
Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
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Infrastructure and Environment |
This project aims to explore the feasibility of the UV technique to clean the reused shellfish processing water.
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Sustainable Oxidation Processes for the treatment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products |
Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
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Infrastructure and Environment |
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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Small Scale Hydrogen Storage for Integrated Energy Systems |
Dr Dimtri Mignard
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Energy Systems |
The integration of a greater proportion of renewable energy, compounded by the rise in small scale distributed generation, is making it increasingly difficult to balance demand and supply of electricity without adequate energy storage facilities. However, the effective deployment of these solutions at any particular location will require an understanding of the local energy system at the time. Conversion between energy vectors will also be required not just to meet storage needs, but also to allow major shifts from fossil fuels to low carbon energy in applications like heat and transport. Hydrogen is an energy vector that is particularly versatile from this viewpoint.
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Are some phobias good? Examining hydro-mechanical relationships in hydrophobic soils |
Dr Chris Beckett
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Infrastructure and Environment |
Extreme climatic events in the 21st century threaten the resilience of geotechnical engineering structures. Low-permeability barriers are at a particularly high risk of inundation under flooding or cracking during droughts, compromising the barriers and permitting contamination of the surrounding ground.
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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Modelling |
Dr Antonis Giannopoulos
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Infrastructure and Environment |
Welcome to GPR Max, a ground penetrating radar simulation tool.
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Assessing and predicting the performance of GPR for landline detection using complete and accurate soil, target and antenna models |
Dr Antonis Giannopoulos
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Infrastructure and Environment |
The project's key objectives are to develop accurate 3D models of complex near surface soil formations and antenna design variants and so produce complete soil/system GPR models that can be used to assess and predict the performance of a GPR system.
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FLOWBEC - FLOW and Benthic Ecology 4D |
Dr Angus Creech
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Energy Systems |
The FLOWBEC project aims to improve the understanding of how the physical behaviour of the water such as currents, waves and turbulence at tide and wave energy sites influences the behaviour of marine wildlife, and how tide and wave energy devices might alter the behaviour of such wildlife.
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