Bushra Al Duri
Deputy Director of MEGS
University of Birmingham
UK
Biography
Bushra Al Duri won a Research Grant Award of £750k from the EPSRC in Supercritical Coal Fired Power Plants, in collaboration with Electrical Engineering at Warwick University, Tsinghua University and NCEPU in China. Industrial partners are E-On UK Ltd., Emerson UK Ltd. and Scottish Powers. She is the lead Investigator in Chemical Engineering at Birmingham. She has recently returned from an EPSRC-supported UK-China Energy Conference in Beijing, where she represented the Project. Bushra completed 16 PhD [programmes and has over 90 publications in Wastewater Treatment, Reactions & Biocatalysis, and Supercritical Fluids. She also has on-going collaborations with international institutions, including University of Tokyo. Her future plans include expanding of the research in Energy and Environment; focusing on combining existing processes with supercritical water technology as the next generation of processes for waste minimisation and energy production, which complies with the increasing concerns over carbon emission and hence global warming. Bushra was appointed as MEGS Deputy Director at the beginning of April 2011.
Research Interest
Hydrothermal Processing Research in Supercritical Water for Environmental and Waste Minimisation studies. The aim is to use the knowledge of supercritical water chemistry and engineering background to conduct investigations that address commercial scale problems and existing challenges
Improvement of reaction kinetics using supercritical fluid reaction media to eliminate undesired side reactions (such as coking)
Isolation and purification of high value minority lipids from plants and edible oil refinery streams using supercritical CO2
Immobilised Enzyme biocatalyses for oleochemical reactions (modification of oils and triglycerides)
Adsorption studies for various solid/liquid contact applications namely wastewater treatment, CO2 sequestration, and immobilisation studies