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Effect of stripper pressure and low lean loadings on the performance of a PCC plant for 99% CO2 capture level (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Michailos, S., & Gibbins, J. (2022, October). Effect of stripper pressure and low lean loadings on the performance of a PCC plant for 99% CO2 capture level. Presented at 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16), Lyon, France

Process modelling based on an open-access design for an MEA post-combustion capture plant that treats CCGT flue gas, has been used to examine the effect of stripper pressure on the energetic performance at low lean loadings as well as potential impro... Read More about Effect of stripper pressure and low lean loadings on the performance of a PCC plant for 99% CO2 capture level.

An open-access FEED study for a post-combustion CO2 capture plant retrofit to a CCGT (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elliott, W., Benz, A., Gibbins, J., & Michailos, S. (2022, October). An open-access FEED study for a post-combustion CO2 capture plant retrofit to a CCGT. Presented at 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 2022 (GHGT-16), Lyon, France

Bechtel National (Reston, VA) have now completed a FEED study for retrofitting a 2x2x1 natural gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant with post-combustion carbon capture (PCC) for CO2 storage/utilization. The comprehensive program of... Read More about An open-access FEED study for a post-combustion CO2 capture plant retrofit to a CCGT.

A Post-Combustion Capture Deployment Derisking Pilot Plant (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elliott, W., Benz, A., Gibbins, J., Samson, A., Lucquiaud, M., & Michailos, S. (2022, October). A Post-Combustion Capture Deployment Derisking Pilot Plant. Presented at 16th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-16, Lyon, France

Pilot tests specifically to derisk full scale deployment of amine post-combustion capture plants are becoming of interest as plans for further commercial projects are being developed in the UK and elsewhere. Experience with problems in full-scale de... Read More about A Post-Combustion Capture Deployment Derisking Pilot Plant.

An open-access, detailed description of post-combustion CO2 capture plant (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elliott, W., Benz, A., Gibbins, J., & Michailos, S. (2022). An open-access, detailed description of post-combustion CO2 capture plant. In Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16) 23-24 Oct 2022. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3814671

Bechtel National (Reston, VA) have undertaken a FEED study for retrofitting a 2x2x1 natural gas-fired gas turbine combined cycle power plant with post-combustion carbon capture (PCC) for CO2 storage/utilization. The comprehensive programme of work co... Read More about An open-access, detailed description of post-combustion CO2 capture plant.

A performance modelling study of integrating a MEA direct air capture unit with a CCGT absorber (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Michailos, S., Samson, A., Lucquiaud, M., & Gibbins, J. (2022, October). A performance modelling study of integrating a MEA direct air capture unit with a CCGT absorber. Presented at 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16), Lyon, France

Even in optimistic decarbonisation scenarios, there are most likely to be residual emissions that cannot be captured at source or avoided. Hence, research on CDR technologies, such as DACCS, to identify ways for effective deployment is essential for... Read More about A performance modelling study of integrating a MEA direct air capture unit with a CCGT absorber.

Development of dense membranes for high-density hydrogen production from ammonia catalytic decomposition (cracking) for PEM fuel cells power in Long-haul Passenger Aircraft Transportation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shehu, H., Orakwe, I., Abunomah, O., Ogunlude, P., Ogoun, E., Ramalan, M., Aisueni, F., Oko, E., Ibhadon, A., Gad-Briggs, A., Giannopoulos, I., Giwa, A., & Gobina, E. (2022, June). Development of dense membranes for high-density hydrogen production from ammonia catalytic decomposition (cracking) for PEM fuel cells power in Long-haul Passenger Aircraft Transportation. Presented at 2022 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, Washington, USA

Aviation is a major greenhouse gas contributor responsible for around 3.2% of global CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. That corresponds to over than 1 billion metric tons of carbon (A metric ton is slightly smaller than the American imperial ton—but t... Read More about Development of dense membranes for high-density hydrogen production from ammonia catalytic decomposition (cracking) for PEM fuel cells power in Long-haul Passenger Aircraft Transportation.

Performance of lyotropic liquid crystal-based photoelectrochemical capacitors for solar-to- electrical energy conversion (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Halls, J. E., Ward, H. J., Althali, A. A., Testut, L., Kocsis, D., Alhassan, H. S., …Wadhawan, J. D. (2018). Performance of lyotropic liquid crystal-based photoelectrochemical capacitors for solar-to- electrical energy conversion. In F. Kongoli, H. Inufasa, M. Boutelle, R. Compton, J. Dubois, & F. Murad (Eds.), Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS2018 Volume 2. Amatore Intl. Symp. / on Electrochemistry for Sustainable Development (121-130)

Regenerative photoelectrochemical capacitors, adapted from a experimental system previously reported (J. E. Halls, J. D. Wadhawan, Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6541) and based on the doping of a lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal with visible light... Read More about Performance of lyotropic liquid crystal-based photoelectrochemical capacitors for solar-to- electrical energy conversion.

Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY] (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Okezue, C., & Kuvshinov, D. (2017). Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY]. Energy procedia, 142, 3675-3682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.261

© 2017 The Author(s). Several research studies have been published on CO 2 pipeline transportation. Most of them focus on developing hydraulic models of entire CO 2 pipeline networks. From these studies, a lot of original knowledge has been produced... Read More about Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY].

An experimental study of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, A., Azzopardi, B., Hewakandamby, B., Mohammed, S. K., & AlAufi, Y. (2017). An experimental study of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe.

The majority of the experimental and theoretical studies in literature on the falling liquid film focus on either small diameter pipes or flat plates. Almost, all these studies provide time series data of the film thickness at a single point on the p... Read More about An experimental study of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe.

Influence of antenna selection on spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehdawi, M., Riley, N. G., Fanan, A., & Ammar, M. (2017). Influence of antenna selection on spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio. In 2016 24th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR). https://doi.org/10.1109/TELFOR.2016.7818754

© 2016 IEEE. Cognitive radio (CR) has been proposed as a solution to the spectrum scarcity problem, which is aggravated by emergence of bandwidth-hungry and feature-rich wireless applications. Selection of appropriate antennas for cognitive radio app... Read More about Influence of antenna selection on spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio.

CO2 integration in high temperature steam gasification (HTSG) of solid fuels and blends with waste (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skoulou, V., Kantarelis, E., & Yang, W. (2017). CO2 integration in high temperature steam gasification (HTSG) of solid fuels and blends with waste. In European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings (970-977). https://doi.org/10.5071/24thEUBCE2016-2CV.3.97

Aim of the present work is to investigate the viability of modifying the high temperature steam gasification process by adding CO2 in an attempt to tailor value added gas suitable for the energy - chemicals production industry. Such an integrated pro... Read More about CO2 integration in high temperature steam gasification (HTSG) of solid fuels and blends with waste.

Spectrum occupancy measurements and lessons learned in the context of cognitive radio (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehdawi, M., Riley, N. G., Ammar, M., Fanan, A., & Zolfaghari, M. (2016). Spectrum occupancy measurements and lessons learned in the context of cognitive radio. . https://doi.org/10.1109/TELFOR.2015.7377446

Various measurement campaigns have shown that numerous spectrum bands are vacant even though licenses have been issued by the regulatory agencies. Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) based on Cognitive Radio (CR) has been regarded as a prospective solution... Read More about Spectrum occupancy measurements and lessons learned in the context of cognitive radio.

Microfluidic culture of head and neck tumour maintains viability, as shown by single cell analysis, providing potential for novel applications and personalised medicine (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bower, R., Green, V., Kuvshinov, D., Crank, S., Stafford, N., & Greenman, J. (2016). Microfluidic culture of head and neck tumour maintains viability, as shown by single cell analysis, providing potential for novel applications and personalised medicine.

The current paper details a succinct characterisation of an in-house designed microfluidic culture device. The maintenance of tissue viability was determined by studying single cells, following dissociation, of head and neck tumour pre and post cultu... Read More about Microfluidic culture of head and neck tumour maintains viability, as shown by single cell analysis, providing potential for novel applications and personalised medicine.

Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., Aziz, A. R. A., & Thein, C. K. (2016). Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 379, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30117-4_1

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. This paper presents a novel switched damping method which is able to improve the operational bandwidth of a linear electromagnetic energy harvester. In this system, different damping coefficients,... Read More about Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester.

Experimental study of interfacial structure of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, A., Azzopardi, B., & Hewakandamby, B. (2015, November). Experimental study of interfacial structure of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe. Presented at American Physical Society-Fluid Dynamics Fall Meeting

Many studies in the literature provide time series data of the film thickness at one or two points on the pipe wall. Most of these studies focussed on either flat plates or small diameter pipes. The main aim of this paper is to study the characterist... Read More about Experimental study of interfacial structure of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe.

Taylor bubbles at high viscosity ratios: experiments and numerical simulations (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, A., Hewakandamby, B., Azzopardi, B., Xie, Z., Pain, C., & Matar, O. (2015, November). Taylor bubbles at high viscosity ratios: experiments and numerical simulations. Presented at 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, USA, Boston

The Taylor bubble is a single long bubble which nearly fills the entire cross section of a liquid-filled circular tube, often occurring in gas-liquid slug flows in many industrial applications, particularly oil and gas production. The objective of th... Read More about Taylor bubbles at high viscosity ratios: experiments and numerical simulations.

Slugs in a large diameter column with air and high viscosity silicone oil (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, A., & Azzopardi, B. (2014, November). Slugs in a large diameter column with air and high viscosity silicone oil. Presented at 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, USA

Very little information is known about the behaviour of high viscous liquids (> 100 Pa.s) in two phase slug flows. Experiments were carried out to study the behaviour of silicone oil (300 Pa.s) in gas bubble column using electrical capacitance tomogr... Read More about Slugs in a large diameter column with air and high viscosity silicone oil.