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Michael Ogidi, a PhD student with the CICCS/IMPEE attended the Institution for Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Hazards 25 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland from 13-15 May, 2015. The Hazards conference is IChemE’s leading process safety conference organized by the Safety and Loss Prevention special interest group of the IChemE. The hazards conference is a gathering of … Continued
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Dr Patricia Cordoba attended the 6th World of Coal Ash (WOCA) conference in Nashville, Tennessee from 4 to 7 May, 2015. Dr Patricia Cordoba attended as speaker to the conference to present her work “Speciation and Fate of Mercury under oxy-fuel conditions”. The World of Coal Ash Conference (WOCA) is an international conference … Continued
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Nur Adilah, a PhD student under CICCS/IMPEE attended 23RD EUBCE (European Biomass Conference and Exhibition) in Vienna, Austria from 1st to 5th June 2015. The conference focused on biomass combining a highly-respected international scientific conference with an industrial exhibition and gathers participants from research, industry, policy and business of biomass. There are several topics that … Continued
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Dr. Manuel Ojeda from IMPEE is recently awarded the International Exchange Programme Grant from The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dr. Ojeda joined Heriot-Watt in Feb 2015 and is currently a research associate in Dr. Jin Xuan’s group. With the support from the Royal Society, Dr Ojeda will visit and conduct collaborative research in the … Continued
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Dr Qi Liu (Jerry) attended the 8th Trondheim Conference on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage (TCCS-8) on June 16 – 18, 2015, in Trondheim, Norway. The bi-annual conference has since its start in 2003 grown to become one of the leading scientific CCS technology conferences. The 8th Trondheim Conference focused on research and development regarding … Continued
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Dr Aimaro Sanna has presented his work “Minimization of energy consumption of CO2 mineralization using recyclable ammonium salts” at the Fifth International Conference on Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Material Engineering (ACEME) held on June 21-24, at the Columbia University, New York. This work has been produced as part of the on-going CICCS research … Continued
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The 1st Chemistry in Energy conference organised by the Energy Sector interest group of the Royal Society of Chemistry was hosted at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 20th-22nd July 2015. The purpose of this Conference was to bring together scientists and technologists from academia and industry with interests in the applications of Chemistry in the … Continued
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Dr Aimaro Sanna has successfully completed a one month research placement at Prof Kevin Whitty’s laboratories, at the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Utah, USA. This research visit was part of a multi-exchange program for the CO2TRIP project “Long-term research activities in the area of advanced CO2 Capture Technologies for Clean Coal Energy Generation”, funded … Continued
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On September 14, 2015 Elizabeth Bay participated in a Routes into Employment event at St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk. The event was for higher level graphics students to get a flavor of the kind of careers available to them. Elizabeth enjoyed discussing with students her own work in carbon dioxide utilization and the importance of graphics to chemistry work in terms … Continued
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Heriot-Watt Mechanical Engineering PhD research student Muhammad Farooq successfully completed a research exchange program atZhejiang University Hangzhou, China. The visit was sponsored by the EU C02-TRIP Project ‘’Long-term research activities in the area of advanced CO2 Capture Technologies for Clean Coal Energy Generation”. During his stay, Mr. Farooq presented a seminar of his … Continued