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Chemical Engineering Research

The Chemical Engineering discipline at JCU conducts research in a wide range of areas including heat transfer, rheology, process control and particulate processes. It also maintains a strong research focus on local regional issues that directly affect the sugar and minerals industries.

Excellent research facilities include: a pilot plant for extraction studies; rheological property characterization tools for non-Newtonian fluids; liquid-liquid dispersion facilities, an industrial evaporator apparatus, fluidized bed apparatus; and a fire protection engineering facility. Chemical engineering postgraduate students have access to a high-performance computing facility and specialised software to support their research.

Chemical Engineering at JCU has received substantial funding from Commonwealth competitive research grants, usually in collaboration with local industry. Particularly strong collaborative relationships have been forged with CSR Sugar Mills Group, Queensland Nickel (QNI), WMC Fertilizers and Copper Refineries Ltd (CRL).

Key areas of research and consultancy include:

 Researcher/Consultant
  • improvements to sugar processing
 Dr Phil Schneider
  • solvent extraction
Dr Madoc Sheehan
  • flow of mineral suspensions and reactor modeling
Dr Yee Leong
  • renewable and sustainable energy sources
A/Prof Yinghe He
  • granulation processes, design and scale-up
A/Prof Yinghe He
  • surface forces-molecular structure relationships of adsorbed additives in colloidal dispersions
Dr Yee Leong
  • convective and evaporative processes in fluidised solids drying
Dr Madoc Sheehan
  • microencapsulation processes
A/Prof Yinghe He
  • uniformly sized drop generation by laminar jet break-up
A/Prof Yinghe He
  • multi-phase flow modeling
 
  • rheology of non-Newtonian fluids
Dr Yee Leong
  • boiling heat transfer
Dr Phil Schneider
  • process systems engineering
Dr Madoc Sheehan, Dr Phil Schneider
  • Hamaker constant determination via a yield stress-zeta potential technique
Dr Yee Leong
  • development and application of solids transport and drying models for rotary and fluidised-bed drying operations
Dr Madoc Sheehan, Dr Phil Schneider, Dr Paul Britton
  • applied advanced process control applications, particularly in crystallisation processes
Dr Phil Schneider
  • micro-encapsulation of food flavours
A/Prof Yinghe He
  • emulsion crystallisation
A/Prof Yinghe He
  • process modelling and simulation for improved process control, optimization and design
Dr Madoc Sheehan, Dr Phil Schneider
  • development of systems for the reuse of aquaculture waste and water
Dr Phil Schneider
  • ballast water treatment system design and development
Dr Phil Schneider
  • modeling granular flows and dust formation
Dr Paul Britton
  • formulation of designer particulate drug delivery systems
A/Prof Yinghe He

 

Further information and enquiries:

Professor Yinghe He
School of Engineering
James Cook University
Townsville Queensland 4811
Australia
Telephone: (61 7) 4781 6185
Facsimile: (61 7) 4781 6788
Email: Yinghe.He@jcu.edu.au