Sustainability database

Groupings

Centre for Process Integration

The methodologies developed allow environmentally friendly process design with the most efficient use of raw materials, energy and capital. The Centre enjoys an outstanding international reputation for the quality of its work, gained from many years of successful research and technology transfer.

Type: 
Research group
Acronym: 
CPI
Contact information: 

http://www.ceas.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/themes-challenges/themes/pdi/cpi/

Keywords: 
Energy efficiency, Design, Process engineering

Connections

Person

Dr Alastair Martin

Alastair teaches subjects relating to the environment and sustainable technology to both undergraduate and postgraduate students including water and waste water treatment technology and waste management and valorisation. 

His research covers a range of subjects within process engineering relevant to the management of environmental impact including non-Newtonian rheology of suspensions, modelling of bio-reactors and reactor networks.

Keywords: 
Environment, Sustainability, Technology, Instrumentation, Water, Waste management, Teaching, Education

Person

Dr Megan Jobson

Megan has industrial experience as a process engineer with Unilever. Her research aims to develop design methodologies for separation and reactive separation processes that are inherently efficient, in terms of energy demand, raw material consumption, waste production and generation of emissions.

Keywords: 
Engineering, Process engineering, Energy efficiency, Energy, Sustainability, Chemistry, Energy supply, Materials, Consumption, Waste, Emissions, Carbon, Climate, Retrofit, Buildings, Teaching, Education