Environmental Engineering

The environment and climate change is ingrained into almost all aspects of research in Sustainable Engineering. From developing new sustainable materials through to reducing emissions from full-scale industrial supply chains, our research aims to drive down environmental impacts of the products we use. Here are some of our key research topics are:

• Measuring and mitigating methane and other pollutant emissions from industrial sites using innovative measurement techniques such as drone-based atmospheric sensing.
• Multi-scale modelling of the combustion of current and new fuels to create a better fundamental understanding of how to reduce emissions and increase efficiency.
• We specialise in using life cycle assessment, circular economy and planetary boundary methods to understand the impact of innovative materials, products and services to shed light on the true impacts of the products we use.
• We develop unique systems modelling approaches to tackle complex socio-technical problems such as climate change mitigation pathways and engineering design development.

Our collaborative, solution-driven approaches bring key societal challenges to the forefront, working with industry, policy makers and the 3rd sector to driving economic, environmental and social benefit.

Modelling the generation of soot from the precursors  generated during combustion through to the agglomerates absorbed as soot particles 

Creating tailor-made porous carbons with multi-scale porosity using multiple virtual void sizes in quenched Molecular Dynamics simulations