Green Processes for Cleaner

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Green Processes for Cleaner Sustainable
Energy Production Reactor Engineering and
Technology Group
Environmental and Resource Utilisation Processes

• Photoreactor Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  Modelling
• Scale up and pilot studies on waste-water
  treatment of industrial toxic effluents (e.g.
  municipal landfill leachate, spent Bayer liquor)

• Modification and Immobilisation of titania
  through doping for improved visible-light
  performance for solar photocatalysis
• Multicomponent photocatalysis, of model and real
  wastewater streams
• Combined Detoxification and Disinfection

Photocatalytic Slurry Bubble Column Reactor
(SBCR) for continuous wastewater treatment
CFD Modelling of Light Distribution and Flow
Patterns in SBCR
Process Development

• Clean Fuels production from petrochemical
  off-gases via Fischer-Trospch synthesis
• Development of carbon and sulphur - resilient
  catalysts
• Catalyst characterisation (Thermogravimetric,
  Spectroscopic and Microscopic techniques)

Advanced Electrical Process Tomography for
Multiphase Systems

• Multimodal tomography module allows real time
  monitoring of multicomponent flows within
  reactors - without disturbing the reactor
  dynamics.

Three-Phase Catalytic Slurry Reactor
Synthesis Gas and Biofuel Production

• Biodiesel Production Esterification and
  transesterification of oleic acid (common
  constituent of spent oils) to produce fatty acid
  alkyl ester (biodiesel) via basket impeller
  catalytic distillation column
• Syngas Generation through steam and dry reforming
  of propane for the purpose of clean fuels
  production
• Process Tomography Non intrusive
  characterisation and optimisation of process
  systems e.g. continuous stirred tank and slurry
  bubble column reactors

Experimental reactors for green fuel production
For more information, please visit 7th Floor
Chemical Sciences Building, or http//www.reactor.
unsw.edu.au, Email A.Adesina_at_unsw.edu.au