Energy and Environment - Managing our Natural Resources

Oil and gas

Five of our research institutes are actively engaged in research in this area:

• Energy and Resources Research Institute
• Institute of Engineering Thermofluids, Surfaces and Interfaces focusing on flow assurance - evaluating the science of mineral scaling and corrosion and assessing strategies for the management of both.
• Institute for Resilient Infrastructure working on degradation and decommissioning of offshore oil installations
• Pathogen Control Engineering Institute
• Institute for Computational and Systems Science

The Centre for Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience (CiPEG) fosters and promotes multidisciplinary petroleum-related research and training at the University of Leeds by combing expertise in Engineering and Geoscience.

Sustainable consumption of resources

We have two research institutes working in the area of sustainable consumption of resources, please visit their websites for more information: the Institute of Engineering Thermofluids, Surfaces and Interfaces; the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure for life-cycle assessment of infrastructure components, alternative binders for concrete and waste management.

The following institutes also have some research and/or student projects in this area although it is not the primary focus of their activity:

• Energy and Resources Research Institute
• Institute for Computational and Systems Science
• Institute of Engineering Systems and Design

 

Waste reduction and sustainability

We have three research institutes actively engaged in research in the area of waste reduction and sustainability: the Energy and Resources Research Institute for recovery of materials and energy using pyrolysis gasification and incineration; the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure for recycling of concrete and reuse of waste materials; the Pathogen Control Engineering Institute is involved in biological treatment of waste and waste water.

The following institutes also have some research and/or student projects in this area although it is not the primary focus of their activity:

• Energy and Resources Research Institute
• Institute of Engineering Systems and Design
• Institute of Engineering Thermofluids, Surfaces and Interfaces

Utility Infrastructure

The Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems has a history of collaboration with the utility industry in work funded by the EPSRC and the TSB for improving the mapping of underground utility assets and in integrating utility map records with a multi-sensor device designed to detect buried apparatus. Find out more.

Water resources

The Pathogen Control Engineering Institute is involved in several aspects of water resources including flood risk analysis, water distribution network analysis and water and sanitation for developing countries. Much of this research is in collaboration with the water@leeds research centre.