Research themes
Our work centres around four key areas of process integration research, each emphasising the efficient use of capital throughout.
We are committed to sustainability and all our research areas focus on environmentally friendly process design.
Efficient use of raw materials
- Design and optimisation of chemical reactors
- Reaction separation systems
- Reactive distillation
- Hydrogen integration in oil refining
- Molecular modelling of refinery processes
Energy efficiency
- Design and retrofit of refinery distillation systems
- Dividing wall distillation
- Azeotropic distillation
- Retrofit of distillation systems
- Cogeneration and site utility systems
- Sub-ambient systems and low temperature separation
- Design of new heat exchanger networks
- Fouling in heat exchanger networks
- Plate-fin heat exchangers
Process operations
- Refinery optimisation
- Refinery scheduling
- Reliability and maintenance
- Batch processing and scheduling
- Operability of site utility systems
Emissions reduction
- Water and wastewater minimisation
- Distributed effluent treatment
- Simultaneous energy and water minimisation
- Flue gas emission