Multiscale process engineering

Facilities include: 

Manufacturing facilities 

• Solids handling, transportation and storage (mixing, packing, segregation, fluidisation, milling and grinding, compaction and tabletting, granulation, crystallisation and precipitation) 
• Filtration and drying 
• Colloidal and suspension formulation 
• Supercritical CO2 processing 
• Nanoparticle synthesis, manipulation and manufacturing 
• Emulsions and emulsification

Measurement facilities 

• A wide range of analytical laboratory systems 
• Process equipment laboratories  
• In-process measurement systems 
• Spectroscopy, scattering, 2D/3D imaging, tomography
• The Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Centre
• A wide range of surfaces, particles and particulate systems characterisation equipment  
• Multiphase systems characterisation techniques 
• X-ray analysis and monitoring methods, in collaboration with Diamond Light Source.  

Multiscale engineering modelling facilities

A wide range of both bespoke and commercial platforms for multiphase/multiscale/multi phenomena simulations:  

Process/phenomena modelling  

• Molecular modelling  
• Mechanistic rate based modelling 
• Population balance modelling  

Continuum  modelling 

• Computational fluid dynamics 
• Lattice-Boltzmann 
• Finite element methods 

Multiscale Modelling 

• Combined continuum and discreet modelling 
• Combined continuum and phenomena modelling 
• Process flowsheet and economic evaluation modelling 

Discrete Modelling

• Discrete element method 
• Packing of complex particle shapes.