Dr Edo Boek
PhD
Research Group Members
PhD students:
Miss Zhifen Luo: Structure and electrolyte transport in micro-porous carbon materials for battery applications using MD simulations
Mr Jincheng Wu: Micro-algae for sustainable biofuels, neutra- and pharmaceuticals: cultivation, filtration, sedimentation and rheology
Mr Jesus Gonzalez Espinosa: Improving the quality of Drinking Water using Liquid-Solid fluidisation and filtration methods
MRes students:
Mr Daniel Floriano Cano: Design of high-temperature stable drilling fluids for geothermal energy recovery applications
Visiting Professors:
Ian Collins:
Removal of PFAS ("forever chemicals") from drinking water resources;
Design of drilling fluids for geothermal energy recovery applications
Current PhD Projects
| Thesis Title |
|---|
| A Comparative Study of Ammonia and Hydrogen Fuel Cells using Life Cycle Assessment |
| Advanced Materials for Water Remediation |
| Enhanced Removal of PFAS from Water Resources using Smart Materials, Advanced Filtration and Novel Foam Fractionation Methods |
| Extraction of lipids from algae suspensions for biofuel applications |
| Granular Imaging Analysis for Irregularly Shaped Particles Applied in Water Treatment Processes |
| Improving the quality of Drinking Water using Liquid-Solid fluidisation and filtration methods |
| Kinetics of reactions between impurities in CO2 streams for carbon capture and storage operations |
| Optimize heterotrophic microalgae |
| Prevention of phase-separation of corrosive aqueous acidic solution out of liquid carbon dioxide |
Completed PhD Projects
| Thesis Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Optimising Microalgal Harvesting by Combined Biochemical Engineering Unit Operations: Cultivation, Sedimentation, Flocculation, Rheological Manipulation and Filtration | 2025 |
| Protein nanosheet engineering, bioemulsion design and application in stem cell technologies | 2023 |
| Reduced order models for the angular discretisation of the Boltzmann transport equation | 2023 |