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University of Bradford, Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 32 University of Bradford, Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Water Management-Desalination and Wastewater Treatment

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Water Engineering and Natural Environment

Water management is very important in many countries in the world. Out of many aspects of water management, freshwater production by desalination technologies (thermal and membrane) and wastewater treatment by various technologies are the most important ones. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba

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

Water Engineering: Complex Natural River Flow Modelling and Flood Analysis

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Water Engineering and Natural Environment

The study on flooding, and identifying suitable ways to mitigate floods, have become a top priority for Government and the Environmental Agency, due to increasing flood frequency and intensity around the UK. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Pu

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

Waste to Energy and Renewable Energies – Design of Hybrid Energy Systems

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

The advancement and economic development of any nation depends mostly on its energy structure. As the world population keeps increasing, the demand for electricity also rises. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba

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

Waste to Energy - Torrefaction of Biomass and Organic Residues to Produce Solid Fuel

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

An increasing world energy demand, the depletion of conventional fossil fuel sources and a growing awareness of their environmental impacts, highlights the importance of promoting the use of alternative fuels from renewable sources. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Arcelus Arrillaga, Dr Y John, Prof R Patel

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

Transforming waste marble dust into sustainable nanoparticle reinforced aluminum-marble composite

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

The composites industry is facing significant environmental challenges due to waste management and resource efficiency issues. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Cooke

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

Techno‐Economic Impact of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Mechanical and Process Engineering

The reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases is agreed in November 2016 in the Paris international agreement (IEA Dec. 2016). The agreement is expected to create a transformative change in the energy sector to combat climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Rahmanian

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

Tackling the challenges towards the sustainable production of green hydrogen

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Centre For Sustainable Environments

Annual growth in World’s population results in a higher energy demand and a steady increase in CO. 2. emissions released into the environment, which are mainly originated from fossil fuel sources. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Arcelus Arrillaga, Prof R Patel, Prof H Benkreira

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

Responsible Decentralised AI and Big Data Analytics

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that could impact humanity raises increasing concerns from general public, industry and regulatory bodies. Read more

Supervisor: Prof CD Neagu

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

Responsible AI for Health and Social Care

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that could impact humanity raises increasing concerns from general public, industry and regulatory bodies. Read more

Supervisor: Prof CD Neagu

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

Optimisation of Batch Reactive Distillation Process

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Water Engineering and Natural Environment

Although the batch reactive distillation process outperforms traditional reactor-distillation processes, due to simultaneous reaction and separation of products for many reaction systems, synthesis of many esters obtained via esterification with alcohols (such as methanol, ethanol) are still challenging. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba

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

Nano-particle enhanced Additive Manufacturing of aluminum alloys

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Additive manufacturing is rapidly developing manufacturing concept; however, metal additive manufacturing has seen numerous inconsistencies regarding methods of controlling and standardizing the performance of the deposits from the metal additive manufacturing process. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Cooke

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

Methods and tools for the verification of plug-and-produce robots in distributed manufacturing systems

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

The competitiveness of manufacturing companies in modern markets increasingly depends on cost-effective flexible automation technologies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Scrimieri, Dr RE Lefticaru, Dr S Kabir

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

Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Develop an Efficient Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Method

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

In recent years, blockchain technology has become a source of new hope with its broad spectrum of applications, e.g., finance, health care, supply-chain management or intrusion detection, to name a few. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Qureshi

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

Intelligent Techniques for Reliability Prediction and Improvement of Free-Space Optics-based Future Satellite Communication Systems

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Bradford-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI

Satellite communications play a pivotal role in our modern world, driving global efforts towards the development of next-generation satellite communication systems. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Mai, Dr CD Dao

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

Impact of Sediment Transport and Vegetation to the Reservoir Hydrodynamics within Fluvial Environment

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Reservoirs and dams are popular control mechanisms for different water resources around the world. However, lately, there have been increasing incidences of reservoir failure linked to sediment transport and vegetation within its environment, that have caused massive financial and social impacts. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Pu

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

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

Geopolymer reinforced concrete structural elements

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Centre For Sustainable Environments

Geopolymers is an alkali-activated amorphous aluminosilicious cementitious material exhibiting the ideal properties of rock-forming minerals. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Ashour

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

Evaluation of properties of wood pellets for Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Storage Application

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

The current state of the art for utilisation of wood pellets is co-firing and the co-generation of biomass combustion products. The safe and effective storage, transportation and processing of wood pellets is then highly important for bioenergy applications. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Rahmanian

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

Development of novel materials for acoustic, thermal and vibration applications

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Centre For Sustainable Environments

One of the main environmental problems of our time is elastomeric waste pollution. Due to mismanagement or inadequate recycling practices, up to 300 million tons of elastomeric waste ends up annually in landfill, or are discharged into ecosystems, posing potential threats to aquatic and terrestrial life. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Khan

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

Development of enhanced Nanostructure High-Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) Coatings for ultra-low wear applications

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

High-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) is a well-established thermal spraying technique for applying wear and corrosion-resistant coatings onto metallic substrates. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Cooke

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

Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Blockchain Technology: Mitigating Cyber Attacks and Detecting Malicious Activities in Network Traffic

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

Cyber attacks have become more widespread and several attacks have made headline news over the past decade, targeting industrial companies and governmental organisations. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Ghafir

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

Control of Granulation Process using Seeded Granulation

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Advanced Materials Engineering

Chemical and Pharmaceutical sector delivers a significant contribution to the world economy and the population as a whole. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Rahmanian

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

Construction and demolition waste disposal to energy generation: An exploratory study

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Centre For Sustainable Environments

Globally, there is an alarming concern about the increasing statistics on the generation of construction and demolition waste. The waste hierarchy – prevent, reduce, recycle, recovery and disposal – which encourages the sustainable use of resources, unwittingly considers waste disposal. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BT Atuahene, Dr P Arcelus Arrillaga

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

CFD simulation of a perforated rotating bucket in the prilling process

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Advanced Materials Engineering

Prilling is a finishing process in chemical and petrochemical industries for producing reasonably uniform spherical particles from molten solutions of chemicals such as urea or ammonium nitrate. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Rahmanian

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

Blockchain-Enabled Security Framework for Digital Twins

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Digital twins (DT) are virtual representations of physical assets, systems, or processes that enable real-time monitoring, analysis, and optimisation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Qureshi

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

Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts for the Security of Internet of Things and Wireless Communications

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

The broadcast nature of Wi-Fi has made the wireless access open to new forms of cyber attacks against the IEEE 802.11 standard protocol. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Ghafir

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

Application of machine learning techniques to the reconfiguration of automated manufacturing systems

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

The competitiveness of manufacturing companies in modern markets increasingly depends on cost-effective flexible automation technologies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Scrimieri, Prof S Konur, Dr S Kabir

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

Analysing a Sustainable Business Model for a Circular Economy Environment applying the System Dynamics Modelling Technique

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

This project involves developing a methodology for analysing and modelling more sustainable business models for organisations (offering both products and services) and which are seeking to take advantage of a dynamic circular economy environment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JE Munive Hernandez

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

Agent-based cyber-physical production systems for Industry 4.0

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

This project aims to develop novel methods and software tools for the implementation of highly adaptive multi-agent systems for manufacturing control, applying plug-and-produce technology to cyber-physical systems. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Scrimieri, Prof S Konur, Dr S Kabir

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

Advanced Networking Techniques for Quantum Space-Aerial-Terrestrial Integrated Networks

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Bradford-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI

In beyond 5G and 6G communication networks, the need for robust security systems is paramount to securely store and share vast amounts of data globally. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Mai

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

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