Energy Innovation, PhD

Providing a sustainable, affordable and secure energy future through the discovery and implementation of new technology and innovation is a key challenge for the 21st Century. With more people requiring energy, effective solutions need to come from a wide range of sources. For the near term various energy innovations are needed and will be the key to global energy solutions. The Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) is a leading centre of excellence for the development of advanced technologies in energy resources, and can host many of these students. ESRI's research areas, broadly speaking, fit into the following categories: Hydrocarbon: Oil and gas production and processing; downstream issues relating to efficient fuel refining; additives and fuel compositionperformance chemistry, Hydrogen: technologies for the efficient generation of hydrogen from wasted energy generation; photocatalysis for hydrogen generation; hydrogen as an energy vector, solar energy harvesting, CO2: technologies for the efficient removal of carbon dioxide from fuel feedstocks; use of carbon dioxide as a fuel source, Biofuel: methods for developing the process streams enabling integration of biofuel production with the chemistry industry supply chain, Energy transmission: Smart grids and carbon nanotube conductors, Wave and ocean technologies, Computer modelling

Applicants for PhD must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University) in Engineering or similar relevant science discipline.