Process design & modelling

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Since 2006, the centre has developed a wide range of mathematic models to evaluate the hydrodynamics and energy consumption of large scale membrane bioreactors, the shear conditions on submerged hollow fibre membrane modules, concentration and temperature polarisation profile of reverse osmosis and membrane distillation membranes. Recently, the process models have been expaneded to resilience modelling of advanced water treatment plants

Computational fluid dynamics modelling of membrane bioreactors

Led by Dr Yuan Wang and Professor Greg Leslie, researchers at UCMST have developed a variety of computational methods to the analysis of complex two-phase and three-phase flow in municipal scale membrane bioreactors (MBR).

Resilience modelling of advanced water treatment plants

Water utilities have become more reliant on Advanced Water Treatment Plants (AWTP) to produce climate-independent sources of high quality water for use in industry or augmentation of drinking water supplies.

Mechanical reliability of microporous membrane in water-recycle application

The increase in population growth has driven the demand to produce water from non-potable sources via membrane technology.

Optimisation of membrane distillation processes

Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally driven liquid separation process suitable for pharmaceutical, food and water treatment applications. Compared with traditional thermal separations, MD operates at lower temperatures (50–60 °C) enabling the use of low grade heat.

Feedback destabilizing control of electro-osmotic flow for reduced fouling

This work aims to reduce membrane fouling by reducing the amount of solute at the membrane surface. Fouling reduces throughput and productivity of membrane systems and as such increases operating costs and reduces profitability of water treatment industries.