Dr Salman Masoudi Soltani
Reader in Chemical Engineering

Research area(s)

• Separation Processes 
• Chemical Reaction Engineering 

Research Interests

• Adsorption Processes
• Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) 
• Blue Hydrogen Production Processes

Project details

Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator - Equipment funding under UKRI Research Capital Investment Fund (RCIF), Internal Grant (£100k); September 2023.
• Principal Investigator - research accelerator special budget, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) – Grant total: £9,377; Duration: October & November 2022.
• Principal Investigator on "Investigation of Environmental and Operational Challenges of Adsorbents Synthesised from Industrial Grade Biomass Combustion Residues", Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) – Grant total: £30k; Duration: November 2022 - July 2023.
• Principal Investigator on "Evaluating the CO2 Adsorption Equilibria of Waste-derived Adsorbents through Low-cost and Accurate Lab-scale Experiments: Potentials for Decarbonisation of Energy Sector", EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award (Readiness) – Grant total: £10k; Duration: September 2022 - March 2023.
• Co-Investigator on "SeaCURE: Sea Carbon Unlocking and REmoval - phase 2", Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) - Grant total: £3m; Duration: June 2022 - March 2025.
• Principal Investigator on "Evaluating the Techno-economics of Ash-derived Adsorbents in Post-combustion Carbon Capture", EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award (Readiness) – Grant total: £30k; Duration: November 2021 - March 2022.
• Principal Investigator on "Techno-economics of Biomass Combustion Products in the Synthesis of Effective Low-cost Adsorbents for Carbon Capture", Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) – Grant total: £30k; Duration: September 2021 - July 2022.
• Co-Investigator on "SeaCURE: Sea Carbon Unlocking and REmoval - Phase 1", Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)  - Grant total: £250k; Duration: May 2021 - December 2021.
• Co-Investigator on "Multiphysics and multiscale modelling for safe and feasible CO2 capture and storage", Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – Grant total: £2.7m; Duration: January 2021 - December 2024.
• Principal Investigator on "Biomass Combustion Ash in Carbon Capture", Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) – Grant total: £30k; Duration: October 2020 - December 2021.
• Principal Investigator on "Biomass Combustion Ash in Carbon Capture", Brunel Research Initiative and Enterprise Fund (BRIEF) – Grant total: £15k; Duration: March 2020 - December 2022. 

Industrial Consultancy Projects:

• TP Group (2021) - confidential details 
• Caeli Nova (2019) - confidential details