Awards

My research interests are in the areas of Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) and safety and loss prevention, particularly pipeline rupture failure consequence CFD modelling. My team’s award winning work in CCUS includes coordinating the EC FP7 and H2020 projects, CO2PipeHaz, CO2QUEST and C4U involving collaboration between academic and industry partners across Europe, China, Canada and USA. Receiving the 2016 IChemE Global Process Safety Highly Commended Award the projects have resulted in over 140 publications and the construction of large-scale world class pipeline rupture test facilities and unique insight of multi-phase flow behaviour during rapid pipeline decompression.

I am key partner in the Horizon Europe Projects, CaLby2020 (Decarbonising industrial processes with Calcium Looping) and ENCASE (A European Network of Research Infrastructures for CO2 Transport and Injection).

I am one of the two lead authors of the European Zero Emission Platform (ZEP) report titled 'A Trans-EuropeanCO2 Transportation Infrastructure for CCUS: Opportunities & Challenges'. The ZEP report, submitted to the European Parliament aims to facilitate the development of a multi-billion Euro pipeline and ship infrastructure for transporting several Mt/yr of CO2 captured from major regional industrial emitters for permanent offshore geological storage, considered as  key enabler for meeting Net Zero emission target by 2030.

I am also a committee member and one of the authors leading the transport infrastructure task group of the Carbon Utilization Infrastructure and Infrastructure Markets study report mandated by the U.S. Congress.The two part report administered by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences is intended to inform U.S. Department of Energy and private sector investments in research, demonstration and deployment for Carbon Utilization Infrastructure. 

Given its industrial context, my group’s research has resulted in several awards and prizes, several industry reports, policy documents and  consultancy projects. My  pipeline rupture safety consequence modelling software, PipeTech has found extensive applications by major corporations and government safety legislators for safety assessment of thousands of kilometers of pressurised pipelines transporting hazardous fluids (including CO2) across the globe.