Department of Chemical Engineering

News

Chemical Engineering doctoral student awarded Santander Research Travel Grant

Tue 18 Jun 2013

The grant, awarded to Jaspreet Kular, will enable her to conduct biophysical studies of cells, using systems at Boston University. read more »

Department research develops a greener solution for treating wastewater

Wed 12 Jun 2013

Dr Darrell Patterson, of the Department of Chemical Engineering, has led an international research team in developing a method to deal with industrial wastewater. read more »

Chemical Engineering moves up two places in the Guardian University Guide 2014

Wed 05 Jun 2013

The Department of Chemical Engineering is now ranked sixth in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2014. read more »

Chemical Engineering academic and postgraduate co-author new book chapter

Thu 23 May 2013

Dr Davide Mattia and research postgraduate Hannah Leese, of the Environmental Nanotechnology Group, have co-authored a chapter to be included in a new book 'Nanoscale Liquid Interfaces' published by Pan Stanford. read more »

Professor Barry Crittenden new Heat Transfer Society president

Tue 26 Mar 2013

Professor Crittenden was inaugurated as the Society’s president at the 2013 annual dinner held at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London. read more »

Chem Eng students and staff have smashing time at Ball

Wed 20 Mar 2013

Around 150 guests enjoyed a three-course meal, ball, raffle, and prize-giving ceremony at the 2013 Chem Eng Ball. read more »

Chem Eng inspires young lives with the Prince's Trust

Tue 12 Mar 2013

Holly Hazell, a young Bath resident, participated in a work placement with the Department of Chemical Engineering as part of the Prince’s Trust Team programme. read more »

Successful webinar discusses nuclear power as a circular chem eng journey

Mon 11 Mar 2013

An IChemE Nuclear Technology Special Interest Group event. read more »

Final-year student placement makes it to the finals of UK Best Placement Student award

Wed 27 Feb 2013

Louisa Paes was nominated to the award by her line manager at L’Oreal. read more »

MEng fourth-year student is Winkworth’s 2012 industrial placement

Fri 22 Feb 2013

Tim Gore will be a key member in the factory process improvement team. read more »

Chem Eng researcher invited to first south west Crucible programme

Thu 31 Jan 2013

A NESTA initiative to support collaboration and innovative thinking. read more »

Fellowship Academy highly commended at IChemE Awards 2012

Thu 08 Nov 2012

The Faculty scheme was finalist under the ‘Education and Training’ category. read more »

Student mentoring is back again for our first-year students

Mon 05 Nov 2012

Following on last year's successful run, second-year students are volunteering to make new students feel like at home in Bath. read more »

Chemical Engineering at Bath in Times top ten

Thu 14 Jun 2012

The Department of Chemical Engineering is ranked 9th in the UK by The Times Good University Guide. read more »

Students reach Best Beer Competition finals

Mon 27 Feb 2012

Four postgraduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering have earned a place at the UK finals of a competition organised by multi-national brewing conglomerate AB InBev. read more »

Students share placement experiences

Wed 30 Nov 2011

A poster exhibition gave returning placement students an opportunity to share their experiences with staff and students in the department. read more »

BP book prize awarded to students

Tue 15 Nov 2011

Students receive BP book prize in recognition of their first year studies with the Department. read more »

Collaborative student mentoring scheme launched

Mon 07 Nov 2011

A student mentoring scheme has been launched by CESA (Chemical Engineering Student Association) and the Department of Chemical Engineering. read more »

Funded PhD opportunity in Chemical Engineering

Mon 17 Oct 2011

An opportunity has arisen to undertake a funded research project on Tuneable Catalysed Membrane Reactors. read more »

Department impresses in 2011 student survey

Wed 17 Aug 2011

The Department for Chemical Engineering is pleased to have achieved an excellent score for student satisfaction in the 2011 National Student Survey (NSS). read more »

Double celebration for Department

Fri 01 Jul 2011

Dr Laura Torrente is awarded a Young Researcher's Prize and the department has welcomes Dr Mirella Di Lorenzo. read more »

Bath academic chairs International Hydrogen Research Showcase

Fri 15 Apr 2011

The 2011 International Hydrogen Research Showcase, which took place at the University of Birmingham in April, attracted leading university and industry researchers from the UK, US, Canada, Russia, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and France. read more »

International Hydrogen Research Showcase 2011

Fri 25 Mar 2011

The high profile three-day Showcase will take place from 13 – 15 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham. read more »

Chemical engineering graduate to be presented with Salter's Prize

Fri 10 Sep 2010

Final year student Nick Holland has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Prize by the Salters' Institute. read more »

Chemical engineer awarded big fellowship for studying small things

Thu 17 Jun 2010

Dr Davide Mattia has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship to work on a project entitled: Nanoparticle Factory-on-a-Chip. read more »

Chemical Engineering student commended for her contribution

Thu 29 Apr 2010

Muna Mazlan has received a ‘Highly Commended’ citation by Bath’s Students' Union at its Student Employee of the Year Awards for 2010. read more »

Capturing Carbon Dioxide in Submersible Human Habitats

Sat 24 Apr 2010

Chemical Engineers at the University of Bath have been awarded US$ 554,858 over 3 years to collaborate with Mechanical Engineers at Duke University in the US to tackle the removal of carbon dioxide from gaseous streams. read more »

Chemical Engineers awarded IChemE Fellowships

Tue 30 Mar 2010

Dr Mike Bird and Dr Semali Perera, both Senior Lecturers in the Department, have been elected to Fellowship of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). read more »

£1.4 million for carbon capture and fuel production

Wed 24 Mar 2010

Drs Pawel Plucinski and Davide Mattia in the Department of Chemical Engineering, are co-investigators in a recently announced £1.4 million research project to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into useful chemicals and fuels. read more »

Marvellous metal-organics

Mon 18 Jan 2010

A paper co-authored by Dr Tim Mays in the Department of Chemical Engineering (J Am Chem Soc 2009, 131, 2159-2171) has been selected as one of 2009’s Nature Research Highlights (Nature 2009, 462, 961). read more »

SUPERGEN Theme Day for UK-SHEC

Fri 27 Nov 2009

UK-SHEC was represented by Dr Tim Mays (Operations Director, University of Bath), Prof Rex Harris (University of Birmingham) and Prof Paul Ekins (UCL). read more »

Chemical Engineering Graduate presented with Salter's Prize

Thu 19 Nov 2009

Ollie Wood is one of only six Chemical Engineering graduates in the UK to be awarded a prestigious Graduate Prize by the Salter’s Institute. read more »

Chemical Engineering students win ExxonMobil Engineering Challenge 2009

Tue 29 Sep 2009

A team of Bath Chemical Engineering students beat participants from Exeter, Cambridge, Imperial, Nottingham, Surrey, Loughborough and Birmingham to win first place in the ExxonMobil Engineering Challenge (south). read more »

Chemical Engineering Graduate "Best in the UK"

Fri 25 Sep 2009

Rhys Williams has won the award for the Best Chemical Engineering Student at the Science Engineering and Technology Awards. read more »

University looks east with new partnership agreement

We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding between our Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) and the Global E3 Institute at Yonsei University.

Wessex Water to invest in University research

A new research and development collaboration between the University and Wessex Water has been announced today.

University to partner with NUS

The University has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National University of Singapore (NUS) initially to work together in the area of Engineering design education and research.

Bath researchers take gold and silver at Houses of Parliament

Two of our researchers have won prizes in the prestigious SET for Britain poster competition this week.

Bath research showcased in Parliament

Researchers from the University are presenting their research at the Houses of Parliament as part of SET for Britain on Monday 18 March.

Seeing the positive side of Carbon Dioxide

New research from Bath has explored the idea of treating carbon dioxide as a useful product rather than waste, by capturing it and converting it into useful chemicals and reducing the quantity of this greenhouse gas in our atmosphere.

Global firm supports new management prize fellow

Grant Thornton is strengthening its relationship with the University by supporting a new prize fellowship in the School of Management’s Centre in Strategic Risk, creating the first corporate named academic position in the School.

 
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