School of Chemical Engineering

Project Titles

Aggregation and dissociation of macromolecular proteins in the chaperone-assistant condition
Supervisor: Dr Jingxiu Bi

Analysis of the whole of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale microalgae production
Supervisors: Dr Peter Ashman and Dr David Lewis

Biomass to liquids (BTL) - a techno-economic assessment
Supervisors: Dr Peter Ashman, Dr David Lewis and Mr Stephen Pahl

Co-firing of biomass and coal in a circulating fluidised-bed gasifier
Supervisors: Dr Peter Ashman, Dr Philip Kwong, Dr Peter Mullinger (Hybrid Energy) and Mr Philip van Eyk

Dewatering microalgae biomass slurry for biodiesl fuel production
Supervisor: Dr David Lewis, Dr Peter Ashman and Mr Andrew Lee

Direct use of geothermal energy – opportunities for SA
Supervisors: Dr Peter Ashman, Professor Gus Nathan

Economic analysis of hybrid renewable energy systems
Supervisors: Dr Peter Ashman, Professor Gus Nathan and Mr David Battye

First principles prediction of vibrational spectra of substituted polyaromatic hydrocarbons
Supervisor: Professor Mark Biggs

Modelling the CO2 vibrational deactivation by nuclear dynamics calculations
Supervisors: Dr Zeyad Alwahabi

Molecular dynamics study of the rheology of nanofluids
Supervisor: Professor Mark Biggs

Online resources for a blended-learning approach to an introductory engineering course
Supervisor: Dr Peter Ashman

Population balance modelling for liquid-liquid flows
Supervisor: Professor Mark Biggs

Primary cell culture in microcarrier to produce therapeutic products
Supervisor: Dr Jingxiu Bi, Dr. Hu Zhang

Review of energy storage technology using batteries
Supervisor: Associate Professor Brian O’Neill

Small scale solar driven water desalination process by thermal distillation
Supervisor: Associate Professor Brian O’Neill

Small scale solar-thermal absorption cooling system using nano-porous materials
Supervisors: Dr Philip Kwong

Thermochemical production of hydrogen from solar and nuclear energy
Supervisor: Associate Professor Brian O’Neill

Utilisation of algal biomass - a techno-economic assessment
Supervisors: Dr Peter Ashman and Dr David Lewis