PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering - Innovative Manufacturing Products

University of Leeds

To complete a postgraduate research programme, you’ll need to be dedicated and passionate about your area of study. But it’ll be well worth it. Being a doctoral student is challenging, yet incredibly rewarding. You are expected to carry out a programme of research in a particular area under the supervision of a primary supervisor and one or more co-supervisors. A PhD is the most internationally recognised research qualification, and is the most commonly pursued research degree at Leeds. Typically, throughout your PhD you will undertake research in different stages across years one, two and three. However, your research degree may be longer depending on the project you have chosen.Innovative manufacturing involves developing a fundamental understanding of manufacturing processes via multiscale mathematical/computational simulations, through experimental studies of the intermediate stages of products in their corresponding manufacturing units to implementation of on-line process monitoring with feedback control. These methods develop new or improved manufacturing methods, resulting in better control of product functionality, improved control of consistency/quality, improved energy efficiency, waste reduction and also predicting optimum manufacturing routes for new products. Creation of innovative products involves the fundamental understanding of the additive or antagonistic interactions between different formulated product ingredients through experimental multiscale interrogation of these interactions, computational simulation of the interactions and a study of a product’s compositional/structural relationship.