Research Expertise
Environment
The following highlights our research expertise in this area:
Architecture and
Buildings:
Environmental design; health, safety and environmental management systems;
simulation of the environmental impact of buildings.
Control Systems:
Modelling and simulation; control system design; ship control systems; rudder
roll and fin roll ship stabilisation; autopilots; ship positioning systems;
underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROV); submarines; robotic systems.
Design Management:
Design co-ordination; design for environment; design methods; design modularisation;
design processes; design re-use; mechatronics; performance improvement;
performance measurement and management; process modelling; process optimisation;
process re-engineering; product diversification; product modelling and visualisation;
team working.
Electrochemistry
and Waste Treatment:
Studies in techniques for nitrate reduction and ammonia oxidation in
waste water; destruction of pentachlorophenol (PCP) by cathodic reduction
and anodic photochemical oxidation.
Electrical Machines
and Drive:
Modelling and simulation of isolated electrical systems in marine environments;
determination of the suitability of materials for use in marine electrical
devices.
Electrical Power
Engineering:
Environmental applications of electrical pulsed power technology; plasma
pyrolysis for the destruction of toxic waste.
Environmental Biotechnology:
Waste treatment systems; degradation of chlorinated methane; nitrate and
phosphate removal from liquid wastes; waste water treatment; landfill microbiology;
pesticide waste stream treatment; waste management; indoor pollution detection
and monitoring systems.
Environmental Economics:
Environmental policy analysis; optimal extraction and harvesting programmes;
applied econometric investigations into demands for energy, capital, labour
and raw materials in the UK manufacturing industry.
Environmental Geography:
Effects of global warming; agriculture development, water conservation
and resource management.
Environmental Health:
Waterborne diseases, water quality and health; communicable diseases; food
hygiene and food quality; solid and hazardous waste management; air quality
monitoring; assessment of health impacts of air pollutants.
Environmental Mechanical
Engineering:
Renewable energy sources; energy reduction in the transport sector; desalination
involving a wind turbine powered desalination plant; electrical integration
of wind turbines into industrial power systems.
Environmental Planning:
Community regeneration; energy policy; environmental policy; sustainability
of the city.
Environmental Studies:
Technological change in the Indian horticultural sector; building capacity
for biotechnology policy in Ghana; costal management; age-based simulation
(ABS) modelling; environmental economic efficiency in local SMEs.
Immunodiagnostics:
Development of immunodiagnostic systems for the detection of pollutants.
Landfill Technology:
Environmental management; biodegradation in landfills; contaminated soils;
landfill microbiology; landfill gas monitoring systems.
Lasers and Optoelectronics:
Development of optical instruments for environmental science (particle
counters, flow cytometers, spectroradiometers, submersible oceanographic
instruments); atmospheric gas trace measurement; design and development
of optical sensors for environmental use; spectroscopy for environmental
applications in liquids and gases.
Marine Cable-Body
Dynamics:
Statics and dynamics of marine cables and cable-body systems with fixed
or variable cable length; towed bodies; lifting operations; pendulation
and motion control; dynamics of marine risers and riser bundles; cable snapping
and chaotic motions; poorly conditioned cable/pipe configuration problems.
Marine Engineering:
Engine efficiency and pollution; ballast water management; thermal energy
management; bio fuels; specialist marine equipment.
Materials:
Strength; fatigue; fracture; welding residual stresses and distortion; composites
and glues.
Offshore Oil and
Gas and Subsea Operations:
Pipelines; risers; moorings; umbilicals (including vibration, large oscillations,
clashing and coupled analysis).
Pulsed Power:
Waste water and sewerage treatment
Safety and Loss
Prevention:
Process safety technology, loss prevention, and management systems;
hazard identification using structured analysis and information elucidation;
rapid ranking of offshore developments in risk order.
Ships and Offshore
Platforms:
Safety; risk control and decision support; stability; structures; reliability;
resistance; manoeuvrability; wave loads; seakeeping; fire; evacuation; hull
form optimisation; corrosion; inspection planning and effectiveness; high
speed craft; port optimisation.
Statistics and Modelling
Science:
Animal diseases and health; biomedical modelling; deterministic modelling;
epidemiology; fish stock analysis; infectious diseases; population ecology;
risk assessment and modelling; time series analysis and modelling.
Surface Support
for Subsea Activities:
Vessel selection; station-keeping and motion compensation; handling
systems; deployment, navigation, performance, control and positioning of
subsea units; automation of subsea inspection, repair and maintenance.
Water Engineering:
Coastal engineering (computer models for tidal flow and pollution studies);
hydrology and hydraulic engineering (mathematical models for river engineering
and river basin management including the modelling of contaminant movement
from polluted soils); leak detection and pipeline monitoring systems.
These areas of research
represent the activities of a number of University Departments and Specialist
Centres including:
Architecture
and Building Science
Bioscience
Civil
Engineering
Design
Manufacture and Engineering Management
Economics
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Environmental
Planning
Geography
Graduate School
of Environmental Studies
Immunology
Industrial Control Centre
Institute for Energy and Environment
Institute of Photonics
Mechanical Engineering
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Physics
Pure
and Applied Chemistry
Statistics
and Modelling Science
