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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.

ChemEngDayUK 2019 Winners

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.