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| Welcome to the web page of the Process Fluidics Group. We are a lively team working in a broad range of areas with a unified core involving visualising and modelling reacting flows. We are trying always to apply these skills in areas that are of particular significance to the Chemical Engineering problems of the future. Examples include: enhancing understanding of the nature and modelling of turbulence, modernisation of production processes for fuels particularly for generation of hydrogen at a massive scale to fuel the hydrogen economy; step change reactor design; high throughput testing and micro-chemical engineering ("plant on a chip"). The Group's work strives to combine a strongly theoretical approach with a direct application to practical systems of both immediate and longer-term interest to Industry. The Group is strongly collaborative in outlook and has well established cross-disciplinary interactions with other leading academic research groups both at Sheffield where the links with our Chemistry Department are exceptionally strong and elsewhere for example the Chemistry Departments of the Universities of Hull, Nottingham and Belfast, the Ecole Polytechnique at Kharkov, Northern Illinois University, USA, The University of Fukui, and Tokyo University, Japan; The Czech Academy of Sciences and UMIST. In addition we are proud of our many longstanding industrial interactions for example, DERA/MOD, Astra Zeneca, Novartis, Hoover, Samsung, Smith Beecham, ITM Power and Westinghouse. Our modern laboratories combine a unique blend of facilities for synthetic organic and polymer chemistry including catalyst preparation and testing; ‘clean’ room facilities for micro reactor chip fabrication and analytical characterisation together with a dark room for laser-based micro fluidic visualisation and electro-optic characterisation of polymers. Furthermore, we have a dedicated laboratory for Hydrogen research where we are measuring high temperature membrane performance, thermodynamic properties of process mixtures and applications in Nanotechnology and catalyst evaluation. The work of the Group has 5 strands: |
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Process Fluidics Group
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