ProfessorKlaus Hellgardt
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Professor of Chemical EngineeringDepartment of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 5577 (Work)
- 417A, ACE Extension, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
My research focuses on the interfaces of reaction and reactor engineering with chemistry, biology and materials science in order to develop more sustainable solutions to current fuels and chemicals production processes: Algae, Biomass and Biofuels, Flow Chemistry, Electrochemical Reactors, Sustainable Hydrogen Production, (Reverse) Fuel Cells.
Thus my research group devises and applies novel reactor and catalyst concepts, measures intrinsic kinetics and develops new technologies and models to describe and improve on the atom economy, cost and sustainability of our processes.
Funding
Climate KIK (under review): Aquafarming of Azolla to mitigate industrial waste streams - AzoFaST (Partners: Wageningen University, Utrecht University, TATA, The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)
NERC Large Grant (under review): From Science to Policy: Fuels from Algae (Partners: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford)
Shell plc (under review): Methane to Methanol
Upgrading of Pyrolysis Oil, Carbon Trust (£,480,000) Co-I (2010-2012)
CO2 to Fuels, EPSRC (£2,100,000) Co-I (2010-2013)
Flow Chemistry, EPSRC (£480,000) Co-I (2009- 2012)
Hydrothermal Processing of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (Hydra-Pro), KAUST (£125,000) PI (2008-2009)
Solar Hydrogen, EPSRC (£4,186,000) Co-I (2007-2012)
Selectivity control in partial oxidation reactions: the role of electrochemical oxygen, EPSRC (£138,131) PI (2006-2008)
Selectivity control in partial oxidation reactions: the role of electrochemical oxygen, EPSRC (£209,779) PI (2004-2006)
An extraordinary method of directly measuring partial molar volumes in gas mixtures, EPSRC (£263,603) Co-I (2004-2007)
Flux response technology: innovation, dissemination and exploration, EPSRC (£288,500) Co-I (2004-2008)
Quantitative interpretation of the flux response of a catalytic microreactor, EPSRC (£220,729) Co-I (2003-2006)
Precision measurement of the viscosity of non-ideal gas mixtures, EPSRC (£187,604) Co-I (2001-2004)
Processing of ultramarine pigments, EPSRC (£427,221) Co-I (2001-2004)
Synthesis and characterisation of high temperature inorganic sulphide-ion conductors, EPSRC (£201,309 ) PI (2001-2004)
Production and reforming of biogas, Government of Nigeria, (£60,000) PI (2001-2004)
A cross-disciplinary diffractometer, EPSRC (£174,445) Co-I (2000-2003)
IMI: activated carbon haemoadsorbents for the removal of middle molecular weight and other toxins from blood, EPSRC (IMI) (£248,179) PI (2000-2003)
Remote sensing of the flux responses of a micro-plant catalytic reactor, EPSRC (£209,578) Co-I (1999-2002)
Electrochemically assisted partial oxidation of propene, Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (£80,000) PI (1999-2002)
My research focuses on the interfaces of reaction and reactor engineering with chemistry, biology and materials science in order to develop more sustainable solutions to current fuels and chemicals production processes: Algae, Biomass and Biofuels, Flow Chemistry, Electrochemical Reactors, Sustainable Hydrogen Production, (Reverse) Fuel Cells.
Thus my research group devises and applies novel reactor and catalyst concepts, measures intrinsic kinetics and develops new technologies and models to describe and improve on the atom economy, cost and sustainability of our processes.
Funding
Climate KIK (under review): Aquafarming of Azolla to mitigate industrial waste streams - AzoFaST (Partners: Wageningen University, Utrecht University, TATA, The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)
NERC Large Grant (under review): From Science to Policy: Fuels from Algae (Partners: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford)
Shell plc (under review): Methane to Methanol
Upgrading of Pyrolysis Oil, Carbon Trust (£,480,000) Co-I (2010-2012)
CO2 to Fuels, EPSRC (£2,100,000) Co-I (2010-2013)
Flow Chemistry, EPSRC (£480,000) Co-I (2009- 2012)
Hydrothermal Processing of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (Hydra-Pro), KAUST (£125,000) PI (2008-2009)
Solar Hydrogen, EPSRC (£4,186,000) Co-I (2007-2012)
Selectivity control in partial oxidation reactions: the role of electrochemical oxygen, EPSRC (£138,131) PI (2006-2008)
Selectivity control in partial oxidation reactions: the role of electrochemical oxygen, EPSRC (£209,779) PI (2004-2006)
An extraordinary method of directly measuring partial molar volumes in gas mixtures, EPSRC (£263,603) Co-I (2004-2007)
Flux response technology: innovation, dissemination and exploration, EPSRC (£288,500) Co-I (2004-2008)
Quantitative interpretation of the flux response of a catalytic microreactor, EPSRC (£220,729) Co-I (2003-2006)
Precision measurement of the viscosity of non-ideal gas mixtures, EPSRC (£187,604) Co-I (2001-2004)
Processing of ultramarine pigments, EPSRC (£427,221) Co-I (2001-2004)
Synthesis and characterisation of high temperature inorganic sulphide-ion conductors, EPSRC (£201,309 ) PI (2001-2004)
Production and reforming of biogas, Government of Nigeria, (£60,000) PI (2001-2004)
A cross-disciplinary diffractometer, EPSRC (£174,445) Co-I (2000-2003)
IMI: activated carbon haemoadsorbents for the removal of middle molecular weight and other toxins from blood, EPSRC (IMI) (£248,179) PI (2000-2003)
Remote sensing of the flux responses of a micro-plant catalytic reactor, EPSRC (£209,578) Co-I (1999-2002)
Electrochemically assisted partial oxidation of propene, Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (£80,000) PI (1999-2002)
GRANTS
- GRANTEPSRC Impact Acceleration Account 2017-2020Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Apr 2017 - 31 Mar 2022