Location: | London, Hybrid |
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Salary: | Competitive |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 11th July 2025 |
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Closes: | 27th July 2025 |
Job Ref: | ENG03607 |
Location: South Kensington Campus
In collaboration with EPSRC, Imperial and the world’s leading Chemical Engineering Company (BASF), we are seeking a Research Associate to join the Innovative Continuous Manufacturing of Industrial Chemicals (IConIC) consortium. The main aim of this Prosperity Partnership is to translate the UK’s scientific leadership in Flow Chemistry into industrial leadership and commercial value; to realise a step change in the implementation of continuous flow processing for the manufacture of high-value chemicals.
The global chemicals industry currently embeds ~450 MT of carbon (C) in its products (the majority from fossil feedstocks) compared to ~37 GT C emitted worldwide as CO2. Captured CO2 can be split into CO and O2 using electrically-driven plasmas, which are well-suited to the intermittent availability of renewable energy (e.g. wind and solar).
This project investigates experimentally the production of high purity CO by the dissociation of CO2 (with impurities representative of those from a capture process) in a microwave-assisted plasma, focusing on reaction engineering, process safety, and the challenging separation of O2 from CO. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with an existing research associate, who is focusing on the development of the system as a whole at bench scale, and working towards demonstration at pilot scale. This new position will focus on reaction engineering of the plasma, and O2 separation within or immediately downstream of it. This is an experimental role, which may include aspects of computational modelling using e.g. COMSOL Multiphysics as required.
The successful candidate will have:
Please refer to the job description for a full list of essential and desirable requirements for this position.
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Further Information
The post is for 24 months with the possibility of an extension.
If you require any further details on the role please contact:
Bhavna Patel – iconic-pp@imperial.ac.uk
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