Chemical Engineering

The MPhil and PhD programmes in Chemical Engineering attract students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds such as statistics, maths, electrical engineering, chemistry and physics. You may work on multidisciplinary research projects in collaboration with colleagues across the University or from external organisations.

Research in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials is cross-disciplinary and our strategy is to ensure that our research groups grow and provide a balanced portfolio of activities for the future. This is achieved in part through MPhil and PhD supervision.

Advanced materials
Electrochemical engineering science
Process intensification
Process modelling and optimisation
Working with industry

Facilities

We have a range of laboratories, testing equipment and software for use by researchers:
•nanoindentation facilities for high spatial resolution mechanical testing
•sensitive mechanical test frames for biomaterial assessment
•test frames for environmentally assisted cracking
•range of tribological testers (scratch, pin-on-disc, abrasion, galling, twin disc rolling-sliding and components scale tests)
•biological AFM
•X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS)
•pilot scale fuel cell tests
•micro and nano fabrication and metrology (through nano-labs)
•pilot scale electrodeposition facilities
•electrochemistry in controlled environment (glove box)
•Process Intensification Laboratory
•Gas-solid Reactions Laboratory
•pilot/larger scale equipment
•Bioprocessing Laboratory – Process Analytical Equipment
•ABB X-PAT Software for on-line real time monitoring and control
•standard bioprocessing equipment.