Team Projects
A key part of the interdisciplinary PhD/MSc Bioenergy programme is the team projects which take place during the students’ first year of study. Our CDT students have successfully completed the following MSc team projects.
2018 Cohort Team Projects
Semester 1
- RSPB – Utilising Conservation Biomass - Flora Brocza, Daniel Chernick, Katherine Graves and Thomas Penney
- Negative Emissions - Scott Wiseman, Cameron Rout and Katy Honour
Semester 2
2017 Cohort Team Projects
Semester 1
- Valuing Natural Capital - Hannah Birch and Poppy Cooney
- Valorising Waste for Developing Countries - Innes Deans, Christina Andreadou, Doug Bray and Shazeb Chishti
- Food Waste Living Lab - Nick Davison and Hannah Sherwood
Semester 2
- Biofuels in Transport - Poppy Cooney, Shazeb Chishti and Doug Bray
- Pre-Treating Fuels via Water Washing - Hannah Birch, Hannah Sherwood and Innes Deans
- ETI Bioenergy LCA - Nick Davison and Christina Andreadou
2016 Cohort Team Projects
Semester 1
- Lincolnshire County Council Road Verge Biomass - Aaron Brown, Fernando Climent Barba, Judith Ford and Luke Higgins
- Design and Feasibility Analysis of a Low Carbon Energy Solution for Niger State (Global Challenges) - Calum Birch, Aaron Carvell, Toby Green, Andrew Price-Allison
- Use of alternative fuels (HVO and Biodiesel) in Diesel engines & their feasibility in Malawi - Jason Ferns, Zahida Aslam and David Maxwell
Semester 2
- High Value Chemical Products from Biomass - Calum Birch, Fernando Climent Barba and Luke Higgins
- Grass-to-Gas: Road-Verge Biomass for Anaerobic Digestion - Aaron Brown, Andrew Price-Allison and Judith Ford
- Biofuels in Engines: Isobutanol - Aaron Carvell, Toby Green and Jason Ferns
- Curing Power Station “Headaches” from Biomass - Zahida Aslam and David Maxwell
2015 Cohort Team Projects
Semester 1
- Pyrolysis gasification of Biomass - Ella Blanquet, David Potter and Jennifer Spragg
- Energy and Nutrient Cycling - Iram Razaq and Natalie Brown
- UCO and Transport Fleet - Nicola Wood and Christian Michelbach
- Assessing the Biomass Resource of Leeds City Council - Weiyi Yao, Daisy Thomas and Charlotte Weaver
- Biochars for the adsorption of environmental pollutants - Christopher Holt and Samantha Sime
- Valorising Municipal Solid Waste for Bioenergy - Richard Birley and Julius Gane
Semester 2
- Biofuels in Engines - Julius Gane, Christian Michelbach and Daisy Thomas
- Bioenergy Use on the European Road Transport Network - Iram Razaq, Jennifer Spragg and Weiyi Yao
- Developing World Cookstoves and Emissions - Charlotte Weaver and Ella Blanquet
- High Value Products from Lignin - Samantha Sime, Christopher Holt and Nicola Wood
- Large Power Generation Utilising Biomass - Richard Birley, Natalie Brown and David Potter
2014 Cohort Team Projects
Semester 1
- Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI) - Robert White, Charlotte Stead and Oliver Grasham
- Fate of Nitrogen during Biomass Combustion - Hana Mandová, Andrew Dyer and Lee Roberts
- Urban Bioenergy and Air Quality Impacts - Luke Conibear, Diarmaid Clery and Azura Klem
- Potential of Waste Wood as a Source of Bioenergy Fuel - Gillian Finnerty, Tomi Oladipo and Kiran Parmar
Semester 2
- The impacts of corrosion additives on ash and combustion efficiency from biomass combustion - Luke Conibear and Hana Mandová
- Anaerobic Digestion at the University of Leeds: System Optimisation - Diarmaid Clery and Oliver Grasham
- Investigating Methods for the Direct Liquefaction of Algae - Gillian Finnerty and Kiran Parmar
- Spontaneous Combustion of Biomass - Tomi Oladipo, Andrew Dyer and Robert White
- The effectiveness of a TRF surrogate in representing a reference gasoline under blending conditions - Charlotte Stead and Lee Roberts