11th Symposium (2020)

We would like to welcome you to the 11th Engineering Postgraduate Research Webinar Symposium on Wednesday 3rd and 10th of June 2020.

The EPRS is an annual event, taking the form of a conference, in which all engineering postgraduate students at the university are given the opportunity to present their research work. Its aim is to exhibit the level and quality of research work currently being

undertaken within the School of Engineering, as well as to provide an interesting experience and liaising opportunity for an audience combining students, members of academia, and industry practitioners.

In light on recent events, the usual conference format will be replaced by two online lunchtime webinars held at 12-1 pm on Wednesday 3^rd and Wednesday 10^th June including the new “1 Slide, 1 Minute, 1 PhD Thesis” competition which will replace the poster session. Cash prizes will be awarded for the best poster and oral presentations.

The symposium brings together the five diverse fields of research;

• Mechanics of Fluids, Soils and Structures

• Chemical and Material Engineering

• Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Symposium Programme

Session 1

Wednesday 3^rd June 2020 12.00 – 13.00

12.00 – 12.10: Abdihakim Bokah - Smart Energy Management System for Hybrid Renewable Energy System Supplying Power for Industrial Applications

12.10 – 12.20: Babarinde Adedayo - High bandwidth control of nanopositioning stages with simultaneous design of PAVPF damping and tracking controllers

12.20 – 12.30: Momoh Emmanuel - Physico-mechanical Properties of Treated Oil Palm Broom Fibres for Cementitious Composites

12.30 – 12.40: Motaz Saeed - Geochemical and surface complexation modelling of low salinity polymer flooding in sandstone reservoirs

12.40 – 12.50: Aliya Temirkhan - Effect of support on the selective hydroisomerisation of n-heptane over Nickel Phosphide catalyst

12.50 – 13.00: James Hastie - Thermoplastic composite pipe for offshore riser applications

13.00 – 13.10: Faith Kerem Boz - Evaluation of success factors in car sharing in cities: Insights from the perspective of local authorities and decision-makers

Followed by poster recordings

Session 2

Wednesday 10^th June 2020 12.00 – 13.00

12.00 – 12.10: Christopher Burton - Sand transport through submerged vegetation canopies under full scale oscillatory flows

12.10 – 12.20: Daniel Zaton - Preparation and characterization of new light-responsive liquid crystal materials showing the NTB phase

12.20 – 12.30: Nacha Atiwurcha - Zeta Potential of intact carbonate core sample saturated with aqueous brine of varying concentrations of carbon (4) ions with the application to EOR and CO2 geological Storage

12.30 – 12.40: Patella Wada - Hydraulic resistance in hydraulically smooth-bed open-channel flows with streamwise ridges.

12.40 – 12.50: Ephraim Otumudia - Effect of pore morphology on ultrasonic treatment of asphaltene deposition in an oil well. 

12.50 – 13.00: Bishnu Bhattarai - Aerobic biodegradation of xenobiotics: degradation profiles of selected analgesic drugs in wastewater

Followed by poster recordings

Organising Committee

Joseph Sherratt
Aliya Temirkhan
Chenhui Wang
Yonis Saleh
Joseph Burnett
Joachim Koelblin
Salem Okpokparoro

This year’s symposium is sponsored by:

School of Engineering – The University of Aberdeen