Water Engineering

This month’s newsletter looks at the woefully neglected area of algal ponds in which various types of algae can be grown for food, as a basis for cosmetics, for fish food and for wastewater treatment. There are also details of a new grant we will be working on, an update …

Water, that most ubiquitous of materials, behaves in strange ways. This month’s newsletter first examines the Hydrostatic Paradoxon with an interesting example using mountains and climate change. Read on about the relationship between the little-known Du Buat’s Paradoxon and broken tidal turbine blades. And finally, there is much more on …

UK flooding is at the forefront of the news and flooded houses are left with a layer of sediment when the floodwaters recede. This month’s newsletter looks at China’s Yellow River, named because of its colour, due to the huge amount of fine sediment it carries – around 4.38 million …

This newsletter includes jobs in water engineering, opportunities for year 3 individual projects, as well as exploring water stress in Peru and outlining some work we propose to do with the University of Engineering and Technology in Peshawar to explore the generation of electricity from hydropower in irrigation systems. If, …

If you ever wanted to know the relationship between goats and erosion, then read our Nov 19 newsletter. Also, job and PhD opportunities, and details of a year 3 project on the methane-based biorefinery.

The February 2019 newsletter is a continuation of the mini-series on lithium mining in the Atacama Desert. Our new Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) system is outlined and Oana Iliescu’s 3rd year project on food waste is outlined.