Research
Research Projects
AI and machine learning for process modelling
Combining data-driven and hybrid models with first-principles and CFD modelling for chemical processes, and teaching the methods through short courses and collaboration.
Circular economy testbed and anaerobic digestion modelling
Scoping an anaerobic digestion testbed for organic waste at Curtin, supported by a MATLAB model that fits batch methane data and simulates batch and continuous digesters.
Multiscale modelling of gas-solid flow and drag
Lattice Boltzmann simulations of particle clusters, energy-minimisation multiscale (EMMS) drag models and closure studies that make CFD of risers and fluidized beds more predictive.
Techno-economics of liquid organic hydrogen carriers
A process and cost assessment of dibenzyltoluene as a hydrogen carrier, showing how the choice of hydrogenation catalyst changes system-level cost.
Phase-field modelling of dendrites in lithium-metal batteries
Open-source finite element phase-field models of lithium electrodeposition, from planar interfaces to three-dimensional dendrites at experimental scale.
LNG ambient air vaporizers: heat transfer, fog and frost
CFD models of how ambient air vaporizers warm cryogenic LNG, how they make fog and frost, and how LNG vapour disperses, to support safer design and siting.
Food-grade γ-conglutin from Australian sweet lupin
Scalable extraction and purification of a blood-glucose-lowering lupin protein, with the bioactive peptides and mechanism of action worked out alongside.
Courses
Publications
- Tapadia U , Johnson S , Utikar R , Newsholme P , Carlessi RJournal of Functional Foods , 87 : 104786 , 2021
- Tapadia U , Carlessi R , Johnson S , Utikar R , Newsholme PMolecular and cellular endocrinology , 480 : 83–96 , 2019
- Mane S P , Johnson S K , Duranti M , Pareek V K , Utikar R PTrends in Food Science & Technology , 73 : 1–11 , 2018