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Lewis Scott

Location
4.0X, Chemical & Process Engineering
Sponsor
AstraZeneca
Primary Supervisor
Professor Mojtaba Ghadiri, Chemical & Process Engineering
Qualifications
MEng Chemical Engineering (Industrial), Leeds

Biography

During his studies, Lewis took a year out to complete an industrial placement year at the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), based at the Sellafield site in Cumbria. Whilst at NNL Lewis had a great opportunity to use his chemical engineering knowledge and learn new skills, whilst working for the Process Modelling & Simulation team. His daily role was to continue updating the different plant flowsheets onto a new software. At the same time he was expected to help with various projects concerning problems experienced on site, which could not be physically investigated, due to the nature of the industry.

PhD: Numerical simulations by CFD/DFM for predictive milling: effect of mill type and scale-up

The focus of the project is to build a model of a spiral jet mill, using a combination of computer fluid dynamics (CFD) and discrete element Method (DEM) modelling. This will allow us to make an assertion whether or not this setup can be used to predict the particle size leaving the mill for a given set of operational parameters. This will then be validated using the physical mill on which it is based here at Leeds.

Outreach, training and other activities:

  • Chair of Staff Student Forum - 2016/2017 Academic Year
  • CP3 Representative on cross CDT committee - 2016/2017 Academic Year
  • Student Helper at IChemE ChemEng Day 2018 (hosted by University of Leeds)

Publications and presentations:

  • Poster presentation IFPRI 2018
  • PhD presentation at 2018 Summer School in Nottingham, hosted by CDT in Advanced Therapeutics

Masters research project in year 1 of CDT:

  • ‘Investigation into the synthesis of hollow-shell vaterite particles: their formation and stability’ with Professor David York, Chemical & Process Engineering