Environmental science and engineering
Projects
Chemical Transport and Adsorption in Hierarchical Porous Solids [Info Sheet - Chemical Transport InFUSE]
Supervisors: Dr Ronny Pini; Professor Camille Petit, Department of Chemical Engineering; Professor Martin Blunt, Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Mineralisation Processes for CO2 Storage [Info Sheet - CO2 Mineralisation InFUSE]
Supervisors: Dr Sam Krevor; Professor Martin Trusler, Department of Chemical Engineering; Professor Mary Ryan, Department of Materials; Steffen Berg, Shell; Sharif Ahmed, Diamond Light Source
Minimal surfaces in porous materials: wettability design for optimal flow performance [Info Sheet - Minimal Surfaces InFUSE]
Supervisors: Professor Martin Blunt; Dr Branko Bijeljic, Department of Earth Science and Engineering; Professor Jerry Heng, Department of Chemical Engineering
Biochar to Mitigate Climate Change [Info Sheet - Biochar to Mitigate Climate Change
Supervisors: Professor Mark A. Sephton and Professor Jason Hallett (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Biomagnetic Monitoring as an Urban Air Quality Assessment [Info Sheet - Green Dust]
Supervisors: Professor Adrian Muxworthy and Dr David Green (School of Public Health, Imperial)
Modelling Extreme Weather Events using Data Science, Machine Learning, and Social Sentiments [Info Sheet - Modelling Extreme Weather]
Supervisor: Dr Rossella Arcucci
Capture Carbon Dioxide on Shales [Info Sheet - Carbon Dioxide and Shales]
Supervisors: Professor Mark A. Sephton, Professor Craig Smalley and Professor Al Fraser
Forensic Detection of Microplastics [Info Sheet - Microplastics]
Supervisors: Professor Mark A. Sephton, Dr Simon Davis, David Bell (Protium)
Glacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: An isotopic geochemical and palaeomagnetic inventory of West Antarctic rock material [Info Sheet - Antarctic Palaeoclimate]
Supervisors: Professor Martin Siegert, Professor Tina van de Flierdt, Professor Adrian Muxworthy (Imperial College), Professor Dominic Hodgson, Dr Teal Riley (British Antarctic Survey)
Breathe In, Breathe Out, combining machine learning with data analysis, fusion and data assimilation for incomplete, noisy air pollution data [Info Sheet - Breathe In, Breathe Out]
Supervisor: Dr Rossella Arcucci
Measuring and modelling the interfacial properties of crude oil [Info Sheet - Measuring and modelling interfacial properties]
Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jackson
Pore-Scale Imaging, Analysis, and Data-Driven Pore-Scale Modelling [Info Sheet - Pore-Scale Imaging]
Supervisor: Professor Martin Blunt
A Machine Learning Approach to Represent Carbonate Heterogeneities in Forward Stratigraphic Models [Info Sheet - Machine Learning]
Supervisor: Dr Cédric M. John
Extending the carbonate clumped isotopes paleothermometer to new mineral systems: a computer modelling approach [Info Sheet - Clumped Isotope Modelling]
Supervisor: Dr Cédric M. John
Sustainable mine waste management: a closer look at dry stacking - EPSRC CASE studentship [Info Sheet - Sustainable mine waste management]
Supervisors: Dr Pablo Brito-Parada and Professor Jerry Heng (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Dynamic semi-structured meshes for fast numerical simulation of Multi-Phase Modelling in Oil and Gas [Info Sheet - Dynamic semi-structured meshes
For further information and to apply, please contact supervisors Professor Christopher Pain or Dr Pablo Salinas
CASE studentship: Pore-to-core linkages and upscaling for CO2 Storage in carbonates [Info sheet: Digital Rock CO2 Storage]
Supervisor: Dr Sam Krevor
Global CO2 storage capacity: Modeling limitations of geography and injectivity [Info sheet: CO2 storage capacity]
Supervisor: Dr Sam Krevor
Understanding Modern Biogeochemical Cycles in the context of the international GEOTRACES project – Lead, cadmium, neodymium [Info Sheet - Modern Biogeochemical Cycles, GEOTRACES Project]
Supervisors: Professor Tina van de Flierdt, Dr Yves Plancherel, Professor Mark Rehkämper
The project is suitable for a student with a background in chemistry, geology or an equivalent qualification.
Coupling Life Cycle Assessment and modelling tools to inform sustainable mineral resource management [Info Sheet - Life Cycle Assessment]
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Brito-Parada (Imperial), Dr Stephanie Muller (BRGM, France)
Using Cosmogenic Surface Exposure Dating to Reconstruct Late-Holocene Glacier and Climate Stability to Determine Precedence for Recent Declines in Snowpack and Water Resources in the American Pacific Northwest [Info Sheet - Cosmogenic Surface Exposure
Supervisor: Dr Dylan Rood
Dynamic semi-structured meshes for fast numerical simulation of MultiPhase Modelling in Oil and Gas [Info Sheet - Semi Structured Meshes]
EPSRC CASE studentship sponsored by industrial partner BP PLC
Proposed Supervisors: Professor Christopher Pain, Dr Pablo Salinas, Dr A. I. Obeysekara and Dr Andre Nicolle (BP)
Cadmium enrichment in cocoa beans – a stable isotope investigation of Cd sources and mitigation strategies [Info Sheet]
Professor Mark Rehkämper and Laurence Maurice (Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Quito, Ecuador; IRD & GET, Université de Toulouse)
Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water [Info sheet]
Geochemistry of Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes [Info sheet]
Micronutrient cycling in submerged soils and uptake into rice [Info sheet]
Nuclear Waste – How to deal with it safely [Info sheet]
Human and Natural Control on Global Atmospheric Trace Element Cycles [Info sheet]
Novel applications of trace metal stable isotopes in medical research [Info Sheet]
Environmental effects and fate of engineered nanomaterials []
Professor Mark Rehkämper and Dr Claus Svendsen, NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH)
Modeling the global Pb cycle: from industrial emissions to the bottom of the ocean [Info Sheet]
High enthalpy geothermal reservoir modelling and optimisation using dynamic mesh optimisation and surface-based modelling [Info Sheet - Geothermal_high_enthalpy_systems]
Dr Pablo Salinas, Professor Matthew Jackson and Professor Chris Pain
Measuring and modelling the interfacial properties of crude oil [Info Sheet - Measuring and modelling interfacial properties]
Supervisor: Professor Matthew Jackson
Exploring terrestrial geological eividence for past glaciation and volcanism in the Thwaites Glacier catchment, Antarctica [Info sheet]
Joanne Johnson (British Antarctic Survey), Dr Dylan Rood (Imperial College London), Associate Professor Brent Goehring (Tulane University), and Dr Stephen Roberts (British Antarctic Survey)
Rapid Response Modelling for Assessment of Pollution and Toxic Releases in Complex Urban Environments [Info sheet]
Dr Fangxin Fang and Professor Christoper Pain
Modeling landscape evolution through space and time [Landscape_PhD_2016]
Dr Gareth Roberts, Professor Matthew Piggott, Professor Gareth Collins and Dr Alex Whittaker
Human and Natural Control on Global Atmospheric Trace Element Cycles [Info sheet]
Geochemistry of Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes [Info sheet]
The Aqueous Chemistry of Actinides and Metalloids [Info sheet]
Micronutrient cycling in submerged soils and uptake into rice [Info sheet]
Reactive porous media flow using dynamic mesh optimisation and surface-based modelling [Info sheet: Reactive porous media flow]
Dr Pablo Salinas, Dr Carl Jacquemyn and Professor Matthew Jackson