Miss Collette Larkin

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Location: 

1.1 Mary Bruck

Research Institute: 

  • Materials and Processes

Research Theme: 

  • Carbon Capture and Separation Processes
  • Reaction Engineering and Catalysis
  • Materials Design, Processing and Characterisation

Academic Qualifications: 

  • MEng in Chemical Engineering. The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Sep 2014 - July 2019

Research Interests: 

Transport is one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise and will require additional mitigation strategies in order to achieve net zero targets. On-board carbon capture is a promising solution that can be retrofitted to fossil fuel-powered vehicles, enabling existing transport to be decarbonised to facilitate a net zero future.

To apply on-board carbon capture, the technology should possess a high CO2 capture performance, be cost-effective and be able to capture low CO2 concentrations. A compact technology that can improve process performance is the hollow fibre adsorption unit, which is the focus of my research. Hollow fibres have a distinctive structure in which hundreds of open, conically-shaped micro-channels are perpendicularly distributed around an empty channel. By depositing a CO2 adsorbent as a thin coating inside these micro-channels, a compact and cost-effective system can be achieved.
The hollow fibre adsorption system is more compact, more cost-effective and has a better CO2 capture performance than traditional adsorption systems, such that it can be feasibly implemented on-board both small and large vehicles.

Specialities: 

  • Ceramic Hollow Fibres
  • Temperature Swing Adsorption for COCapture
  • Hollow Fibre-based Adsorption Units for On-board COCapture
  • New Material Development

Further Information: 

  • Associate Member of the IChemE