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Dr Darrell Alec Patterson is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and the Director of Research in Chemical Engineering. Darrell leads the Bath Process Intensification Laboratory and the University of Bath Membrane Science and Engineering Research Cluster, Membranes@Bath. He is also a member of the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies.
Darrell's research is in the area of Sustainable Chemical Technologies, with a focus on Process Intensification in Separation and Reaction Engineering. His expertise is in three main areas:
Membrane Science and Engineering.
Wastewater Treatment Technologies.
Catalysis and Reactor Engineering.
Darrell completed his Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours (UK first class MEng equivalent) in Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. He received his PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Imperial College London, in 2001. He completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Auckland in 2009.
He worked as a Technology Development Consultant for Atkins Water between 2001 until 2003. He then went on to Imperial College as a postdoctoral research associate developing novel methods of enhancing solvent based pharmaceutical reactions through integration with solvent resistant membranes.
He returned to the University of Auckland in 2005 where he worked as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, before joining the University of Bath in 2011.
Research
Within the three main research areas above, Darrell’s main focus is on the synthesis, fundamental characterization and application of membranes and catalysts (in particular the use of nanostructured and tuneable materials for these) and their combination in novel reactor and membrane separation technologies for environment and sustainable applications.
Expertise and projects include:
1. Membrane Science and Engineering:
Tuneable membranes and membrane reactors: primarily focused on applications of conducting polymers as the next generation of membrane materials.
Polymer nanofiltration and mixed matrix membranes: for currently unachievable and unconventional separations (e.g. in organic solvent and acidic or basic environments; protein isolation; wine fining).
Membrane fractionation cascades: for product synthesis and isolation (focussing on pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compounds from plants).
New membrane characterizations: Wet and in-use imaging of membranes using DIC microscopy, nanoindentation and ESEM.
2. Wastewater treatment technologies:
Photocatalysis: nanostructured thin film ZnO and TiO2 photocatalysts.
Photocatalytic process intensification: Spinning disc and mesh photoreactors for enhanced reaction rate.
Wastewater treatment: pharmaceutical and endocrine disrupting pollutants.
Recycle and reuse of wastes into value-added products: sea shell waste conversion into value-added biomedical, catalytic and adsorbent materials.
3. Catalysis and Reactor Engineering:
Process intensification: spinning disc, spinning cloth disc and spinning mesh reactors for thin film and enzyme reaction enhancement.
Homogeneous catalytic reactors: membrane reactors for pharma and fine chemical applications.
Heterogeneous catalytic reactors: Nanostructured catalyst synthesis, characterisation and application, thin film catalytic reaction and reactor engineering.
Flow Biocatalysis: Immobilized enzyme reaction and reactor systems.
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