Microwave assisted Pre-treatment of lignocellulosic residues for better performance as solid fuels in fluidised bed technologies Jan 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2021
Exploitation of alternative fuels (lignocellulosic biomass waste) in energy production offers the advantages of: resource efficiency and improved waste management, increased renewables in power production and reduced dependence on imported energy. Ad...
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All Projects (54)
Low Energy Dew Point Cooling for Computing Data Centres Jan 1, 2017 - Oct 31, 2022
Cooling systems for Computing & Data Centres consume 30% to 40% of energy delivered into the centre spaces, while electricity use in CDCs represents 1.3% of the world total energy consumption. The traditional vapour compression cooling systems for CD...
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Energy from Waste and Biomass Dec 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2024
Advanced Microwave Pyrolysis Technique to Produce New Materials for CO2 Adsorption Feb 1, 2017 - Jan 31, 2020
Research in School of Environmental Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis focuses on the preparation, characterization and evaluation of activated carbon produced from agricultural waste by conventional heating using a pyrolysis furnace. The team i...
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Evaluation of the thermo-mechanical pulping of biomass to facilitate release of fermentable sugars for advanced biofuel production Aug 1, 2016 - Apr 1, 2017
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The project will evaluate a strategy for lowering the production cost of C6 and C5 sugars from lignocellulosic biomass, which could be fed directly into the current infrastructure for conversion to advanced bioethanol. Continuous pressurise...
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THYME: CCF BIO ECONOMY Apr 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2021
The THYME Project is a new collaboration between the Universities of York, Hull and Teesside to build the bioeconomy sector across Yorkshire, Humberside and the Tees Valley. In collaboration with regional industry, LEPs and the wider community, the...
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Luminescent C-Dots: Fabrication, Characterization And Application As Potential Photocatalyst And Fluorescent Sensor Feb 28, 2018 - Mar 31, 2019
Wastewater streams are a serious environmental concern because of the risks of discharging poorly treated effluents directly into the environment by posing a pollution threat to all receiving water bodies, groundwater pollution, soil contamination an...
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Evolving a Circular Plastics Economy Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020
Project website: http://circularplastics.hull.ac.uk/
A Novel Loop-Heat-Pipe (LHP)-based Data Centre Heat Removal and Recovery System Employing the Micro-channels Cold/Hot Plates Sep 9, 2019 - Sep 8, 2021
Date centres consume 1.1-1.5% of the world’s total electricity supply and remain 15-20% of annual increase rate in power demand. Space cooling, owing to vast dissipation of the heat from the data-processing equipment to data centre space, has a very...
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Waste Water treatment: Approaches, Management and Capacity building Mar 1, 2019 - Mar 3, 2019
Water quality globally, and in India, is deteriorating due to human activities and anthropogenic contamination of harmful chemicals, for example, Arsenic, affecting over 900 million people in India. India’s total water and sanitation sectors are wort...
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Supporting Educator's Pedagogical Application of 360 video (SEPA360) Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2025
The use of 360 video is growing in popularity but there are few resources to supports its application and wider adoption in University. This Erasmus+ project brings together five European universities who will work collaboratively to explore the most...
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GCRF 2019 PPF15: Source Identification and Monitoring of Emerging Contaminants in Ground and Drinking Waters in India. Feb 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2019
The objective of this project is to recruit a research assistant to undertake a study involving water
sampling and analysis to obtain water quality data on emerging contaminants in ground and drinking
water samples, using locations in Chandigarh as...
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THYME: Reclaiming lignin rich sludge after enzymatic hydrolysis for repurposing and pelletizing into a secondary fuel source for thermochemical transformation Nov 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2021
Hull led PoC with the Biorenewables Development Centre (York) and Jesmond Engineering (Industrial Partner)
THYME: Extraction of higher value methyl esters from a mixed waste methyl ester stream Nov 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2021
Synthesis of Inorganic Sensors for application in Water Monitoring and Contaminant removal Sep 16, 2019 - Sep 15, 2020
Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship - Ms Devika Vashisht
ECPE PPF: Plastics2Energy Oct 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
The project will combine the feasibility element with an overall aim to produce hard data and evidence of proof of concept and then showcase and share this data with UK communities.
Funding is to be used for research and development testing of the u...
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THYME: Production of Nano-celluloses and Nano-carbons of Spent Pea Biomass for Waste Water Treatment Jun 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Proposal title Smart and CO2 neutral Olefin Production by arTificial Intelligence and MAchine Learning Jan 4, 2021 - Jan 3, 2025
The proposed project is to develop and maintain long term collaborations between Europe and China towards CO2 neutral
Olefin production. We will realize this objective by carrying out joint research in big data and artificial intelligence (AI) for...
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QR-GCRF 20.21.PPF05 - Pilot testing of a low-cost pretreatment material for enhancing the biogas yield from the biodigestion of cassava waste Jan 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2021
In this project, our vision is to test innovative and cheap solution for transforming the abundant cassava waste in rural parts of Nigeria into biogas as cheap, clean and sustainable cooking fuel. Ongoing research at MOUAU has identified a local and...
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