Cleaning of exhaust streams from small generators (Drax)

The Centre wishes to recruit a chemical engineering graduate with a first or high 2.1 (above 65% grade mark average class honours degrees) for the project summarised below. The funding available restricts the project to Home and EU students only. Each project has an industrial partner.

The project will perform a model-based design and techno-economic analysis to study the cleaning of exhausts of small generators, for example diesel or OCGT plant. The study will use existing technologies as a baseline, e.g. CCS and catalytic reduction, and select and adapt those most appropriate to the smaller scale generators of interest. A constraint in this is exhaust streams’ composition, which must be accounted for given that require particular attention given the deleterious effect that some species have on performance (e.g. NOx).

Importantly, the system must be designed such that it can operate in a transient manner alongside these small generators, given their use as back-up generation. Further, an experimental element of the project may also be included, to test at bench scale key component(s) of the design.

The project is suitable for a Chemical or process engineer, preferably with experience in process simulation.

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy: [Email Address Removed].

Main supervisor: Dr. Solomon Brown, University of Sheffield