Seminar by Professor Panagiota Angeli

Dr. Andrew Feeney is hosting a visit from Professor Panagiota Angeli from the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, on Thursday 24th October. Prof. Angeli will be giving a seminar from 10:30-11:30am in the Creativity Suite. The talk title, abstract, and her bio details are below. As places are limited, if you would like to attend, please email Andrew at [email protected] by 17th October to allow him to arrange coffee and tea for 10:15am.

Seminar Title: Intensified metal separations in small channels for sustainable digitalised processing
Description: Central to a circular economy is the recycling and reuse of materials, while maintaining their highest possible value, for resource efficiency and waste minimization. Metals, in particular, are indispensable for the transition to a net zero, information based, economy and their recovery from electronic and technological waste is thus crucial. Among the available separation technologies, solvent extractions occupy a prominent role because of their selectivity and versatility. The talk will present recent work on intensified extractions in small channels using novel solvents such as ionic liquids and aqueous biphasic systems. Results will be presented on methodologies for modular scale up and on the integration of sensors for in line measurements. Examples will be shown on the benefits of intensified contactors on the whole process flowsheet for metals recovery. 
About the Speaker: Prof Panagiota Angeli, FIChemE, is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, Deputy Head ED&I, and leads the ThAMeS Multiphase group. She obtained a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a PhD on Multiphase Flows at Imperial College London, UK. She specializes on complex multiphase flows and their application to process intensification and separations. Her research aims to link small scale interactions and interfacial phenomena to the macroscopic behaviour of the complex flows and to the development of predictive models. She has developed intensified small channel flow contactors to perform separations and multiphase chemistries with applications to energy and manufacturing sectors. She is currently investigating the digitization of the separation processes. The experimental investigations have been enabled by original and advanced sensing and measurement techniques, such as micro- and high speed Particle Image Velocimetry, laser induced fluorescence and ultrasound. Prof Angeli’s work has been supported by substantial UK Research Council and European Union grants and by industry. She has been awarded a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, and has participated and chaired UK EPSRC and international (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium) research funding review panels. She co-chairs the Multiphase Flows Special Interest Group of the EPSRC funded UK Fluids Network and has published over 200 journal papers.