oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. State-of-the-art mass spectrometry instrumentation (amongst world-leading). International environmental research. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Barrow

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Foam improved oil recovery

University of Strathclyde Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

Typically in oil and gas production, only a small fraction of the oil present manages to flow out of an oil reservoir under the reservoir’s own pressure. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Grassia

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Post-Oil Imagination: creative practices as prefigurative actions towards post-fossil fuel worlds

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

This research project investigates how oil capitalism is contested at the scale of creative practice. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Plaza

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Online Ageing Detection in Transformer Oil Insulator Insulator

Glasgow Caledonian University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

PROJECT NUMBER. Please select or refer to the following reference number in your application. SCEBE-23SF-Transformer-Nekahi. AIMS. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Nekahi, Dr S Farokhi, Dr K McAulay

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Combined Thermal and Impact Effects on Main Gas and Oil Pipelines

University of Portsmouth School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3-year full-time or 6-year part time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Civil Engineering & Surveying, and will be supervised by Dr Laurie Clough and Dr Nikos Nanos. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Clough, Dr N Nanos

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Characterising hydrocarbon degradation pathways for post oil spill monitoring using bacterial hydrocarbon biodegradation genes

University of Essex School of Life Sciences

Scientific background. Oil spills are one of the most challenging threats to the marine environment with potential long-term impacts on fisheries, the economy and society. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B McKew, Dr D Lea-Smith, Prof T J McGenity

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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University of Bath URSA project: Synthesis and application of renewable plant-based nanolubricants

University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering

This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the University of Bath URSA competition, for entry in September 2024. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Shokrani

21 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Implications of agriculture derived pollution in soil biodiversity on a tropical rain forest

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences

Project Background . Habitat fragmentation and degradation by human activities, particularly agricultural development, threatens global biodiversity. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Goossens, Dr P Orozco Ter Wengel, Prof E Mahenthiralingam

9 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Continuous monitoring and mitigation of methane emissions at energy facilities PhD

Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

Methane is a major greenhouse gas and so contributes to climate change. Cranfield and SLB are offering an iCASE PhD studentship, developing modelling methods to couple with observations of methane from energy facilities. Read more

Supervisors: Prof N Harris, Dr M Cain

21 February 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Hydrothermal Processing of Biomass and Organic Waste to Produce Fuel and Value-added Products

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

In the past decades, an excessive use of fossil fuels due to the steady increase in World’s energy demand had a significant impact on the environment. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Arcelus Arrillaga, Dr Y John

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Advanced Composites Structures FEA/CFD Modelling Design and Manufacturing

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

Introduction. The most common composite material consists of carbon or glass fibres that are bonded together with a polymer matrix and are often referred to as carbon or glass fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP or GFRP). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Koutsonas

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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BBSRC DTP CASE Sustainability assessment of biobased surfactants by fermentation and biomass transformation

The University of Manchester Department of Chemical Engineering

This CASE PhD project in collaboration with Holiferm Limited will assess the environmental impacts and techno-economic aspects of different types of biosurfactants… Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Cuellar-Franca, Dr J Winterburn

19 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Close the Loop: Biotechnology-based Recycling Methods for Synthetic Textiles

Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design

Project ID. AAD7. Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Karim

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Co-processing of renewable and fossil fuel feedstocks in traditional refinery units

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Mechanical and Process Engineering

The simulation model of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit and many other refinery processes maximize the yields of fuels such as gasoline, diesel, propylene and minimize the yields of CO2. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y John, Prof R Patel, Prof I Mujtaba

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Microbubble Coalescence in Turbulence

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr John Lawson. Project description. Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on applying computer vision (CV) and machine learning (ML) approaches to experimentally measure and model coalescence in turbulent dispersed multiphase flow. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Lawson

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 68 oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 68 oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Investigating the environmental impact of the Athabasca oil sands industry using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

Foam improved oil recovery

Post-Oil Imagination: creative practices as prefigurative actions towards post-fossil fuel worlds

Online Ageing Detection in Transformer Oil Insulator Insulator

Combined Thermal and Impact Effects on Main Gas and Oil Pipelines

Characterising hydrocarbon degradation pathways for post oil spill monitoring using bacterial hydrocarbon biodegradation genes

University of Bath URSA project: Synthesis and application of renewable plant-based nanolubricants

Implications of agriculture derived pollution in soil biodiversity on a tropical rain forest

Continuous monitoring and mitigation of methane emissions at energy facilities PhD

Hydrothermal Processing of Biomass and Organic Waste to Produce Fuel and Value-added Products

Advanced Composites Structures FEA/CFD Modelling Design and Manufacturing

BBSRC DTP CASE Sustainability assessment of biobased surfactants by fermentation and biomass transformation

Close the Loop: Biotechnology-based Recycling Methods for Synthetic Textiles

Co-processing of renewable and fossil fuel feedstocks in traditional refinery units

Microbubble Coalescence in Turbulence

We have 68 oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 68 oil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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