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LCERT expertise
Keywords | Name |
Distributed combined heat and power generation / co-generation; biomass technologies including combustion, gasification and pyrolysis; clean fossil fuel technologies including various carbon capture technologies/materials and clean coal technologies; fluidized beds; sustainable waste management and disposal; hydrogen production from biomass/coal |
Professor Hao Liu (Head of Group) |
Production of bio-based chemicals, materials and functional food ingredients from food waste and sustainable biomass sources through development of transformative microwave technologies including Microwave-Assisted Extraction, pretreatment and stabilisation. |
Dr Eleanor Binner |
Process modelling, process optimisation and techno-economic analysis of low-carbon energy technologies, including carbon capture and utilisation, as well as thermochemical and biochemical conversion of biomass and waste |
Dr Ioanna Dimitriou |
Encompass novel processing techniques using microwave technologies |
Dr John Robinson |
Fossil energy technologies, carbon capture, biomass conversion and hydrothermal carbonisation |
Professor Colin Snape |
Catalysis and energy conversion, carbon capture technologies and related advanced gas clean-up systems |
Dr Chenggong Sun |
Solar façade (Smart Window, PV, Concentrating PV, Transparent Insulation Materials etc.), Thermal Energy Storage, District Heating System, Building energy simulation, Integration of renewable/cleaner fossil energy systems into buildings and built environment |
Dr Yupeng Wu |
Petroleum geochemistry, oil biodegradation, analytical pyrolysis, biomass conversion, isolation and quantification of pyrogenic carbon & biochar |
Dr Will Meredith |
Use of sustainable feedstocks, bioenergy and biochemical production, oil/solid separation processes and microwave heating technologies |
Dr John Robinson |