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Chemical Engineering PhD Research Projects PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Bradford

We have 27 Chemical Engineering PhD Research Projects PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Bradford

EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership 2024/25: Chemical & Process Engineering

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
Becoming an innovator in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds!. For 2024/25 entry, we are offering you the opportunity to join our thriving community of leading researchers within the School of Chemical and Process Engineering. Read more

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

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

Control of Granulation Process using Seeded Granulation

  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

Towards NetZero: Sustainable Binders for Mineral Rock Wool Insulation

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
Mineral rock wool is a fibrous material formed by spinning or drawing molten mineral or rock material such as slag and ceramic. It retains its flexible, low-density, structure with binders that are spray coated onto the fibres. Read more

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

  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

CFD simulation of a perforated rotating bucket in the prilling process

  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

Tackling the challenges towards the sustainable production of green hydrogen

  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

Particle properties by design

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
This interdisciplinary project presents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious scientist or engineer to work across the boundaries of chemistry, physics and engineering, with opportunities to develop a broad portfolio of skills. Read more

Predictive design of drug co-crystals through correlative studies of inter-molecular interactions

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
This interdisciplinary project presents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious scientist or engineer to work across the boundaries of chemistry, physics and engineering, with opportunities to develop a broad portfolio of skills. Read more

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

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

Accelerated Discovery of Next Generation Polymers Using Artificially Intelligent Reactor Platforms

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
The application of digital technologies is transforming the discovery and manufacturing process within materials science. This therefore represents perhaps the only opportunity to address the urgent need for new sustainable, high performing materials to facilitate more efficient processes (e.g. Read more

Sustainable delivery of materials through spray coating

  Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering
Many materials have additional protection through modifying their surface properties. This PhD examines the fluid mechanics of this process. Read more

Reducing greenhouse gas and air pollutants emissions from hybrid vehicles

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
This project is to investigate the co-benefits of cleaner fuels and novel exhaust aftertreatment systems on the mitigation of emissions from hybrid vehicles. Read more

Future Carbon-Neutral Fuels: The Chemistry of Ammonia on Steel Surfaces

  Research Group: School of Chemical and Process Engineering
This project will examine how ammonia, a carbon-free fuel considered a replacement for diesel, impacts on the longevity and performance of existing engine technologies. Read more

Pharmacokinetics Guided Natural Products Exploration for Drug Discovery, Development, Delivery and Therapy

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Natural products have emerged as a key standard in novel and safe delivery of anticancer bioactive compounds. Apart from their ease of administration and delivery, natural/phytochemicals still face several hurdles, due to their physiochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Read more

Rational Control of Crystal Morphology

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
The external shape of crystalline particles (called morphology) is of paramount importance in a wide range of applications, in particular pharmaceuticals and pigments. Read more

Oxidic Nanomaterials for High Density Storage in Li-ion Batteries

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
The oxides of a number of materials are very appealing candidates as substitutes for conventional anodes in lithium-ion batteries because of their high theoretical capacity, high electric conductivity low potential of lithium ion intercalation, as well as superior electron mobilities, with one such material, SnO2 being particularly appealing. Read more

Optimisation of Batch Reactive Distillation Process

  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

New Drugs for Brain Tumours: A Locoregional Implant Brain Tumours

  Research Group: Medicines Development and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Next-generation temozolomide derivatives for the treatment of high-grade glioma have been developed at the University of Bradford. Read more

Nanomaterials as White Light Emitters for Low Cost Lighting

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
White-light emission (WLE) from semiconductor nanostructures is presently a research area of intense interest especially where the primary objective is to replace conventional light sources by environmentally friendly materials in order to minimize energy costs and therefore the global energy consumption for lighting. Read more

Geopolymer reinforced concrete structural elements

  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

Directed Co-Crystallisation of Pharmaceuticals: developing a predictive method for co-crystallisation

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
In this project, we propose to use a combination of computational and experimental techniques to develop a predictive method for co-crystallisation. Read more

Core and core-shell nanomaterials synthesis for Optoelectronics

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
Nanoscience and technology, which involves the manipulation of materials using the property of size to bring about specific desired changes in the electronic structure of materials, has proven to be a powerful additional tool permitting the materials scientist to effect greater control over the charge transport properties in materials. Read more
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