CNIE and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Chemical Engineering win four prizes at ChemEngDayUK 2019
29 April 2019
On 8-9 April 2019, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Chemical Engineering and the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) participated at an exciting ChemEngDayUK event in Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Chemical Engineering and the Ìýscooped four prizes at the event and the winners included:Ìý
Best presentation in the "Particle Systems"Ìýsession
- Kaiqiao WuÌý(PhD student with Marc-Olivier Coppens)
Presentation title: Dynamically structured fluidised beds: A way to control bubbling flows
Best presentation in the "Modelling and Process Systems" session
- Ioannis GkioulekasÌý(PhD student with Lazaros Papageorgiou)
Presentation title: Optimal regression tree models through mixed integer programming
Best presentation in the "Reaction, Catalysis and Kinetics" session
- Luca PanarielloÌý
Presentation title: Gold nanoparticles synthesis in a continuous reactor – towards a reaction engineering driven design approach
Runner up in the Poster competition
- Giovanni MeridianoÌý(PhD student with Panagiota Angeli and Luca Mazzei)
Poster title: Experimental and computational fluid dynamics studies of solid-liquid mixing in stirred tanks
Also at the event,ÌýÌýgave a Plenary Presentation onÌýNature-Inspired Chemical Engineering: A Transformative Methodology for Innovation,Ìýand there were several presentations by the NICE group, includingÌýÌý(Kidney Inspired Membranes with Superior Anti-Fouling Properties),ÌýÌý(Dynamically Structured Fluidised Beds: A way to control bubbling flows) andÌýÌý(Effects of Surface Barriers in Hierarchical Zeolites).
Congratulations to the winners and for all those who took part.