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Tarek Rashwan

Assistant Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering,

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Biography

I completed my PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in Environment & Sustainability from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Jason Ian Gerhard. I am concurrently an Honorary Lecturer at University College London and Visiting Academic at the Open University and I am a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Expertise Summary

My key expertise is in

  • Environmental engineering - primarily in fate and transport of pollutants in the environment
  • Waste management - primarily in thermal treatment processes, with a focus on contaminant destruction alongside energy and resource recovery
  • Heat and mass transfer analyses - including scalability analyses, local thermal non-equilibrium analyses, and analytical and numerical modelling

Research Summary

Alongside students and collaborators, I'm currently researching a range of environmental engineering topics that support a low-carbon, clean, and circular economy - such as assessing hydrogeological… read more

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Current Research

Alongside students and collaborators, I'm currently researching a range of environmental engineering topics that support a low-carbon, clean, and circular economy - such as assessing hydrogeological conditions for safe used nuclear fuel storage, large-scale hydrogen storage and transport systems, and furthering the scientific understanding of a novel thermochemical waste-to-energy technique based on smouldering combustion. These projects primarily focus on understanding mass and energy balance dynamics - often in porous media systems - via experimental, analytical, and numerical methods.

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


telephone: +44 (0) 115 95 14081