Research in the Chemical Engineering Department
Chemical Engineering Research
The Department's researchers are organised into different research areas which we call 'laboratories' and 'domains'. The laboratories represent our fundamental research platforms and the domains reflect key application areas. Much of our work is collaborative, and many staff work in more than one area. You can browse our academic staff and their individual research group membership here.
Our Domains and 'Laboratories'
Research Domains
Key application areas of research
Research that stands at the interface of engineering and the biological and medical sciences
Research aimed at developing and enhancing ways to enable a sustainable future
Research that aims to better understand materials through modelling and characterisation
Research that reduces complexity of systems from the process level to the molecular
Research Laboratories
Fundamental research platforms
Understanding the behaviour of materials
The search for a fundamental understanding of the properties of matter
Fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, separation techniques
Control and optimisation of catalyts, reactors and processes
Methods and computer-based tools for optimisation, design and operation
Themes grid
Biomedical engineering and industrial biotechnology
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Biomedical engineering and industrial biotechnology
Engineering biological and biomedical systems to improve the human condition and the world around us
Energy and environmental engineering
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Energy and environmental engineering
Delivering materials, methods, processes and technologies in support of a sustainable future
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Multiphase transport processes
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Multiphase transport processes
Next-generation multi-scale modelling tools & measurement techniques for complex multiphase flows
Multi-scale computational chemical engineering
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Multi-scale computational chemical engineering
Computational and systems approaches for design, analysis and optimisation
Reaction engineering and applied catalysis
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Reaction engineering and applied catalysis
Developing novel, clean and efficient chemical processes while minimising negative impacts
Separations
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Separations
Developing energy efficient separations across a range of industrial applications
Soft matter engineering
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Soft matter engineering
Designing, synthesising, assembling, characterising & modelling soft materials for wide applications
Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics & molecular systems
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Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics & molecular systems
Quantitative prediction of the thermophysical properties and phase behaviour of matter
Research themes
The research activities of the Department fall into at least one of the following nine research themes.
