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Large-scale continuous hydrothermal production and activation of ZIF-8 (2015)
Journal Article
Munn, A., Dunne, P. W., Tang, S., & Lester, E. (2015). Large-scale continuous hydrothermal production and activation of ZIF-8. Chemical Communications, 51(64), 12811-12814. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc04636j

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. A new method for the large-scale hydrothermal production and activation of ZIF-8 is presented in this communication. Activated ZIF-8 has been produced, at lab-scale and pilot-scale, at a rate of 27 g h-1 and 810... Read More about Large-scale continuous hydrothermal production and activation of ZIF-8.

Carbon capture and utilisation: application of life cycle thinking to process design (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Cuellar-Franca, R., Dimitriou, I., Garcia-Gutierrez, P., Elder, R. H., Allen, R. W., & Azapagic, A. (2015). Carbon capture and utilisation: application of life cycle thinking to process design.

Applying life cycle thinking at an early design stage can help engineers to deliver sustainable systems by design. To demonstrate how this can be carried out at a practical level, this paper proposes a simplified methodology for integrating life cycl... Read More about Carbon capture and utilisation: application of life cycle thinking to process design.

Comparison of experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies of slug flow in a vertical riser (2015)
Journal Article
Abdulkadir, M., Hernandez-Perez, V., Lo, S., Lowndes, I., & Azzopardi, B. J. (in press). Comparison of experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies of slug flow in a vertical riser. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2015.06.004

This paper presents a comparison of the results obtained from experiments and CFD studies of slug flow in a vertical riser. A series of two experimental investigations were carried out on a 6 m vertical pipe with a 0.067 m internal diameter charged w... Read More about Comparison of experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies of slug flow in a vertical riser.

The impact of porous media heterogeneity on non-Darcy flow behaviour from pore-scale simulation (2015)
Journal Article
Muljadi, B. P., Blunt, M. J., Raeini, A. Q., & Bijeljic, B. (2016). The impact of porous media heterogeneity on non-Darcy flow behaviour from pore-scale simulation. Advances in Water Resources, 95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.05.019

The effect of pore-scale heterogeneity on non-Darcy flow behaviour is investigated by means of direct flow simulations on 3-D images of a beadpack, Bentheimer sandstone and Estaillades carbonate. The critical Reynolds number indicating the cessation... Read More about The impact of porous media heterogeneity on non-Darcy flow behaviour from pore-scale simulation.

Investigation into the applicability of Bond Work Index (BWI) and Hardgrove Grindability Index (HGI) tests for several biomasses compared to Colombian La Loma coal (2015)
Journal Article
Williams, O., Eastwick, C., Kingman, S., Giddings, D., Lormor, S., & Lester, E. (2015). Investigation into the applicability of Bond Work Index (BWI) and Hardgrove Grindability Index (HGI) tests for several biomasses compared to Colombian La Loma coal. Fuel, 158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.05.027

With increasing quantities of biomass being combusted in coal fired power stations, there is an urgent need to be able to predict the grindability of biomass in existing coal mills, but currently no standard biomass grindability test exists. In this... Read More about Investigation into the applicability of Bond Work Index (BWI) and Hardgrove Grindability Index (HGI) tests for several biomasses compared to Colombian La Loma coal.

Supercritical extraction as an effective first-step in a maize stover biorefinery (2015)
Journal Article
Attard, T. M., Theeuwes, E., Gomez, L. D., Johansson, E., Dimitriou, I., Wright, P. C., …Hunt, A. J. (in press). Supercritical extraction as an effective first-step in a maize stover biorefinery. RSC Advances, 5(54), https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA07485A

Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) has been investigated for the generation of valuable waxy compounds and as an added-value technology in a holistic maize stover biorefinery. ScCO2 extraction and fractionation was carried out prior to hydrolysis a... Read More about Supercritical extraction as an effective first-step in a maize stover biorefinery.

Crouzeix-Raviart MsFEM with bubble functions for diffusion and advection-diffusion in perforated media (2015)
Journal Article
Degond, P., Lozinski, A., Muljadi, B. P., & Narski, J. (in press). Crouzeix-Raviart MsFEM with bubble functions for diffusion and advection-diffusion in perforated media. Communications in Computational Physics, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2014.m299

The adaptation of Crouzeix-Raviart finite element in the context of multi-scale finite element method (MsFEM) is studied and implemented on diffusion and advection-diffusion problems in perforated media. It is known that the approximation of boundary... Read More about Crouzeix-Raviart MsFEM with bubble functions for diffusion and advection-diffusion in perforated media.

Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors (2015)
Journal Article
Dai, Z., Peng, C., Chae, J. H., Ng, K. C., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors. Scientific Reports, 5(1), Article 9854. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09854

Supercapacitors with aqueous electrolytes and nanostructured composite electrodes are attractive because of their high charging-discharging speed, long cycle life, low environmental impact and wide commercial affordability. However, the energy capaci... Read More about Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors.

A Study on the Laser Spatter and the Oxidation Reactions During Selective Laser Melting of 316L Stainless Steel, Al-Si10-Mg, and Ti-6Al-4V (2015)
Journal Article
Hague, R., Tuck, C., Simonelli, M., Tuck, C., Aboulkhair, N. T., Maskery, I., …Hague, R. J. (2015). A Study on the Laser Spatter and the Oxidation Reactions During Selective Laser Melting of 316L Stainless Steel, Al-Si10-Mg, and Ti-6Al-4V. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 46(9), 3842-3851. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-015-2882-8

The creation of an object by selective laser melting (SLM) occurs by melting contiguous areas of a powder bed according to a corresponding digital model. It is therefore clear that the success of this metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology reli... Read More about A Study on the Laser Spatter and the Oxidation Reactions During Selective Laser Melting of 316L Stainless Steel, Al-Si10-Mg, and Ti-6Al-4V.

The putative mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase from Picrophilus torridus is in reality a mevalonate-3-kinase with high potential for bioproduction of isobutene (2015)
Journal Article
Rossoni, L., Hall, S. J., Eastham, G., Licence, P., & Stephens, G. (2015). The putative mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase from Picrophilus torridus is in reality a mevalonate-3-kinase with high potential for bioproduction of isobutene. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(7), https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.04033-14

Mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase (MVD) is an ATP-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation/decarboxylation of (R)-mevalonate-5-diphosphate to isopentenyl pyrophosphate in the mevalonate (MVA) pathway.MVD is a key enzyme in engineered me... Read More about The putative mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase from Picrophilus torridus is in reality a mevalonate-3-kinase with high potential for bioproduction of isobutene.

Geochemistry and petrology of palaeocene coals from Spitzbergen — Part 2: Maturity variations and implications for local and regional burial models (2015)
Journal Article
Marshall, C., Uguna, J., Large, D. J., Meredith, W., Jochmann, M., Friis, B., …Orheim, A. (2015). Geochemistry and petrology of palaeocene coals from Spitzbergen — Part 2: Maturity variations and implications for local and regional burial models. International Journal of Coal Geology, 143, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2015.03.013

The Central Tertiary Basin is an uplifted part of the North Barents Shelf and should be an ideal location to understand the thermal history, maximum burial depth and overburden thickness in this petroleum-rich area. Efforts to quantify the thermal hi... Read More about Geochemistry and petrology of palaeocene coals from Spitzbergen — Part 2: Maturity variations and implications for local and regional burial models.

Computational approaches to understanding reaction outcomes of organic processes in ionic liquids (2015)
Journal Article
Keaveney, S. T., Harper, J. B., & Croft, A. K. (in press). Computational approaches to understanding reaction outcomes of organic processes in ionic liquids. RSC Advances, 5, https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra14676j

This review considers how various computational methods have been applied to explain the changes in reaction outcome on moving from a molecular to an ionic liquid solvent. Initially, different conceptual approaches to modelling ionic liquids are disc... Read More about Computational approaches to understanding reaction outcomes of organic processes in ionic liquids.

Geochemistry and petrology of Palaeocene coals from Spitsbergen — Part 1: oil potential and depositional environment (2015)
Journal Article
Marshall, C., Large, D. J., Meredith, W., Snape, C. E., Uguna, C. N., Spiro, B. F., …Friis, B. (2015). Geochemistry and petrology of Palaeocene coals from Spitsbergen — Part 1: oil potential and depositional environment. International Journal of Coal Geology, 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2015.03.006

Abundant oil prone coal (Type III kerogen) deposits are preserved within the high latitude, middle Palaeocene, Todalen member of the Central Tertiary Basin, Spitsbergen Island, Norwegian Arctic. The coals (Svea, Longyear, Svarteper and Askeladden sea... Read More about Geochemistry and petrology of Palaeocene coals from Spitsbergen — Part 1: oil potential and depositional environment.

Characterization Of oil/ gas flow pattern in vertical pipes using electrical capacitance tomography (2015)
Journal Article
Abdulkareem, L. A., Azzopardi, B. J., Hamid, S. A., & Abdulkahdir, M. (2015). Characterization Of oil/ gas flow pattern in vertical pipes using electrical capacitance tomography. European Journal of Scientific Research, 130(1),

Electrical Capacitance Tomography provides the opportunity to visualize the contents of a process of many applications such as pipeline and obtain information on the flow configuration. Multiphase flow is an extremely complex field of fluid mechanics... Read More about Characterization Of oil/ gas flow pattern in vertical pipes using electrical capacitance tomography.

Microwave processing of cement and concrete materials - towards an industrial reality? (2015)
Journal Article
Buttress, A., Jones, D., & Kingman, S. (2015). Microwave processing of cement and concrete materials - towards an industrial reality?. Cement and Concrete Research, 68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2014.11.002

Each year a substantial body of literature is published on the use of microwaves to process cement and concrete materials. Yet to date, very few if any have lead the realisation of a commercial scale industrial system and is the context under which t... Read More about Microwave processing of cement and concrete materials - towards an industrial reality?.

Redox electrolytes in supercapacitors (2015)
Journal Article
Akinwolemiwa, B., Peng, C., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Redox electrolytes in supercapacitors. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 162(5), A5054-A5059. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0111505jes

© The Author(s) 2015. Most methods for improving supercapacitor performance are based on developments of electrode materials to optimally exploit their storage mechanisms, namely electrical double layer capacitance and pseudocapacitance. In such case... Read More about Redox electrolytes in supercapacitors.

A concise review on microwave-assisted polycondensation reactions and curing of polycondensation polymers with focus on the effect of process conditions (2014)
Journal Article
Komorowska-Durka, M., Dimitrakis, G., Bogda?, D., Stankiewicz, A., & Stefanidis, G. (2014). A concise review on microwave-assisted polycondensation reactions and curing of polycondensation polymers with focus on the effect of process conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 264, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2014.11.087

During the past 15 years, increasing application of microwave heating to polycondensation reactions has been witnessed. Experiments have been carried out at laboratory scale using widely different experimental procedures. The use of microwaves has of... Read More about A concise review on microwave-assisted polycondensation reactions and curing of polycondensation polymers with focus on the effect of process conditions.

Calcium leaching from waste steelmaking slag: Significance of leachate chemistry and effects on slag grain mineralogy (2014)
Journal Article
HALL, C., LARGE, D., ADDERLEY, B., & WEST, H. (2014). Calcium leaching from waste steelmaking slag: Significance of leachate chemistry and effects on slag grain mineralogy. Minerals Engineering, 65, 156-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2014.06.002

Accelerated carbonation of alkaline wastes such as steelmaking slag offers the potential to combine waste valorisation with climate change mitigation by utilising carbon dioxide (CO2). One method of achieving this is through an indirect carbonation p... Read More about Calcium leaching from waste steelmaking slag: Significance of leachate chemistry and effects on slag grain mineralogy.

Preparation of Mo nanopowders through electroreduction of solid MoS 2 in molten KCl–NaCl (2014)
Journal Article
Gao, H., Tan, M., Rong, L., Wang, Z., Peng, J., Jin, X., & Chen, G. Z. (2014). Preparation of Mo nanopowders through electroreduction of solid MoS 2 in molten KCl–NaCl. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16(36), 19514-19521. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cp01864h

The impact of moisture on the milling behavior of different biomasses (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Williams, O., Eastwick, C., Lester, E., Giddings, D., & Byrne, N. (2014). The impact of moisture on the milling behavior of different biomasses.

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of moisture content on the milling behaviour of four different biomasses commonly used in the power sector and characterise their milling behaviour in a laboratory scale planetary ball mill. As received... Read More about The impact of moisture on the milling behavior of different biomasses.