Head of Group

Department of Chemical Engineering

University College London

Torrington Place

London WC1E 7JE, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 7867

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7383 2348

Email: p.lettieri@ucl.ac.uk

Current PhD Students

• Arinola Abiola, Thesis: Sustainability Analysis for Bioprocess Design and Optimization (In collaboration with Prof. Fraga)

• Chandni Patel, Thesis: Economies of Scale for Energy recovery from Biomass (In collaboration with Germana' & Partners Consulting Engineers)

• Shane Morrin, Thesis: High Temperature Gas Cleaning in Waste Gasification Plants (In collaboration with Advanced Plasma Power)

• Sultan Al-Salem, Thesis: Mechanical and Thermo-Chemical Treatment of Polymers in Multi-Scale Reactors: Kinetics and LCA Study 

• Olga Parkes, Thesis: Biomass Energy in the Urban Environment (In collaboration with Battle McCharty)

Completed PhD Students

• Luca Mazzei, Thesis: Eulerian modeling and computational fluid dynamics simulation of mono and polydisperse fluidized suspensions (2008)

• Liban Yassin, Thesis: Appropriate Scales and Technologies for Energy Recovery by Thermal Processing of Waste (2008)

• Olumuyiwa Owoyemi, Thesis: CFD Modelling of Mono-Component & Binary Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds with Application to Industrial Materials. (2007)

• Giovanna Bruni, Thesis: An Investigation of the Influence of Fines Size Distribution and High Temperature on the Fluidization Behaviour of Gas Fluidized Beds Linked with Rheological Studies. (2006)

Over the years, the Group has hosted visiting researchers and affiliate students from various departments across the world. MSc and MEng research projects are also undertaken every year within our group. 

(Created 20 November 2007, last updated 3 November 2009)