About

I completed my MEng and Doctoral qualifications in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2014. I was awarded the 2015 Foxwell Memorial Prize for my research designing a partial oxidation burner to thermally destroy tars produced during biomass gasification. In 2014, I joined an energy and environmental consultancy company as a Renewable Energy Technologist. I worked on several collaborative R&D projects in the energy-from-waste and bioenergy sectors including plasma gasification and anaerobic digestion. I joined Sheffield Hallam University as Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering to work on an Innovate UK funded project to develop a novel heat exchanger for the food industry. I became a full-time Chemical Engineering Lecturer in September 2018 and became Course Leader a year later. I am an Associate Member of the IChemE and a Fellow of HEA.

Specialist areas of interest

- Waste Heat Recovery;
- Energy from Waste;
- Advanced Thermal Treatment of Biomass;
- CFD Modelling and Simulation.

Teaching

Department of Engineering and Mathematics

College of Business, Technology and Engineering

Courses taught:

- Chemical Engineering

Modules taught:

- Design Project
- Fluid Modelling for Chemical Engineers
- Chemical Process Modelling, Instrumentation and Control

Research

• National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering
• Materials and Engineering Research Institute , Industry and Innovation Research Institute

Current Projects

- Advanced heat recovery systems for the food manufacturing industry, DEXT. Funded by Innovate UK. Project partners: DEXT Heat Recovery, William Jackson Food Group and DCI Refrigeration.

Previous Projects

- Design and development of a microwave induced plasma gasifier for the treatment of screenings waste from the water industry (2012-2015). Funded by Innovate UK. Project partners: Stopford Energy and Environmental, Liverpool John Moores University and United Utilities.

- Assessing the Feasibility of Using Microwave Induced Plasma Torrefaction for the Production of an Energy Dense, Carbon Neutral Fuel from Wood Pellets. Funded by Innovate UK. Project partners: Stopford Energy and Environmental and Liverpool John Moores University.

Publications