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The Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP)

The Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP). Khellil Sefiane Head of Institute. Sanderson Building, King’s Buildings. Deputies: Vasileios Koutsos and Martin Sweatman. IMP. Largest research institute in the School Home to currently 27 academic staff ~60 research students

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The Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP)

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  1. The Institute for Materials and Processes (IMP) Khellil Sefiane Head of Institute Sanderson Building, King’s Buildings Deputies: Vasileios Koutsos and Martin Sweatman

  2. IMP • Largest research institute in the School • Home to currently • 27 academic staff • ~60 research students • ~30? research staff • Broad range of research • Current research awards~> £28M Mission Contribute to the international research standing of Engineering in the University of Edinburgh

  3. Who are the IMP academic staff? Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Hyungwoong Ahn Stefano Brandani John Christy Gail Duursma Lev Sarkisov Khellil Sefiane George Serghiou Jennifer Skilling Martin Sweatman Prashant Valluri Xianfeng Fan Maria-Chiara Ferrari Dimitrios Gerogiorgis Timm Krueger Giulio Santori Jon Gibbins Konstantin Kamenev Vasileios Koutsos Frank Mill Jane Blackford Stephen Warrington Mathieu Lucquiaud Jason Reese Jia Li Anthony Callanan School of Engineering

  4. IMP Research • Main Research Areas • Carbon Capture and Storage • Mechanics of Materials • Materials Simulations & Design • Multi-Phase Flows & Complex Fluids School of Engineering

  5. Carbon Capture and Storage Rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere from pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm to a present day value of 365 ppm has led to increasing ocean acidification and may be contributing to climate change and a rising of global temperatures. CCS is essentially a three stage technology where CO2 is captured from large man-made CO2 emission sources, transported via a network of pipelines and stored in deep subsurface geological formations. (Brandani, Gibbins, Chiara, Ahn) UK Carbon Capture & Storage Community Network http://www.ukccsc.co.uk/what-is-ccs/ School of Engineering

  6. Carbon capture for a 1GW plant requires performance of current capture plants to be hugely expanded Optimisation of configurations at all scales and development of novel materials (MOFs, Zeolites, mesoporous materials with surface groups, polymers of intrinsic microporosity) Integration of separation processes (gas-liquid, membrane, adsorption, hybrid processes) Advanced process modelling for steady state and dynamic power production cycles (Lucquiaud, Li) Carbon Capture and StorageAdsorption and Power Plant Engineering Current-Generation CO2 capture plant in Malaysia (200t/day) using a KEPCO/MHI chemical solvent process School of Engineering

  7. Microstructure characterisation Mechanical properties on micron and sub-micron scales Deformation and failure of very small systems (thin films and wires, particles) Damage mechanics in rock and porous materials: nanoscale to bulk. Nanocomposites Adhesion and Tribology (Blackford, Koutsos, Callanan) Mechanics of Materials Bending simulations of wires down to 0.1 mm diameter Nanocompression of (biomedical) Microbubbles Symmetric PEO-PI diblock on mica, Koutsos School of Engineering

  8. Ice and snow mechanics Deformation and friction properties of snow and ice, for: • Winter sports applications • Avalanche prediction (SLF, SAIS) • Vehicle tyre traction (Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Michelin) (Blackford, Koutsos) School of Engineering

  9. Nanoporous materials Adsorption and diffusion in nanoporous materials Simulation of materials synthesis and performance Nanocomposites mechanical properties of nanocomposites Modelling of interfaces in composite systems (Krueger) Molecular design of new functional materials for adsorption, catalysis, sensors Materials Simulations & Design Adsorption in nanoporous silica Mesostructure in liquids (Sweatman et al., Submitted to Nature) (Sarkisov) School of Engineering

  10. Phase change and boiling heat transfer Thermo-fluid dynamics of simple and complex fluids, nanofluids Physics of wetting and interfacial phenomena Microfluidics Enhanced oil recovery Liquid-liquid, gas-liquid and solid-liquid flow in pipelines (Valluri, Fan, Sefiane, Christy, Duursma, Krueger, Reese) Multi-Phase Flows & Complex Fluids Multiphase flows and heat transfer in process industries, Gerogiorgis) Local hot spots in a semiconductor device Simulating multiphase flows using CFD techniques: A snapshot of waves evolving spatiotemporally in a long channel School of Engineering

  11. Dyn. Pressure Distribution (Reservoir & Well Network) (Gerogiorgis, Fan) Oil and gas systems modelling, simulation and optimisation • How to streamline advanced well drilling technology? • How to simulate and optimise oil and gas production? • How to maximize reservoir productivity and fuel recovery? ROCK GAS OIL WATER School of Engineering

  12. Design, development and manufacturing of instruments and equipment for experiments at High pressures and magnetic fields Extreme temperatures Recent developments include World’s smallest 10 GPa pressure cell ‘Laboratory on a tip’: Diamond tips with implanted Microelectronics for μm scale property measurements at extreme pressures Materials Properties under extreme conditions • Rock mechanics and heritage engineering • Novel dating methods for fired clay ceramics • Conservation science of heritage concrete structures • Fracture initiation and growth in rocks from • Crystallisation in pores [reservoir engineering] • Damage mechanics: nanoscale to bulk • (Serghiou, Kamenev) School of Engineering

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