Andrew Wright Email & Phone Number

Lymm, Gb

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Design of H2 PSA units to tie in with chemical looping processes.Development of a complete pilot scale test unit for a chemical looping process.Design and scale-up of CO2 capture adsorption processes.

Working with Engineurs to help industrial clients to design, build and operate commercial scale adsorption processes. Examples being H2 PSAs and air pre-puification units removing H2O and CO2.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I am currently working to improve the understanding of issues that arise when scaling-up adsorption units and what can be done to address them. I also interested in new applications for adsorption processes and providing support on what is needed to turn a concept into commerical reality.My particular research interests include:1. PSA/VSA/TSA cycle modelling and design.2. The impact of flow maldistribution on adsorption processes.3. Bench-scale testing needed to address long-term problems that arise in commercial plants.4. Performance improvement through interconnectivity of adsorption units with other unit operations.5. The impact of non-steady operating conditions on performance and control.6. How to combine modelling with laboratory- and pilot-scale experiments to minimise cost and risk in scaling-up adsorption processes.

Carrington, Manchester

For 7 years I worked on taking adsorption process ideas from concept through to commerical application. This involved taking pilot-scale experimental work and creating new fundamental models to enable process engineers to design full-scale equipment. I would then undertake plant performance testing to validate the model result. I was heavily involved in the technical risk management, intellectual property protection, economic evaluation and safety/operational assessments needed to move these technologies through to commercialisation. The specific adsorption fields that I was involved with include air-prepurification, hydrogen PSAs and novel technologies for CO2 capture such as sorption-enhanced water gas shift.I spent 3 years working on Air Products' pilot-plant used to validate their oxyfuel CO2 purification technology. This was comprised of flue gas quenching, compression, absorption/reaction columns, adsorption, membrane separation and CO2 condensation and distillation. I was embedded with the commissioning team on site to help troubleshoot this first-of-a-kind process, gaining extensive knowledge along the way about plant start-up and operation. My responsibility was then to develop test plans, oversee their execution and analyse the results obtained.My final 3 years at Air Products was spent on plant data collection and first principles modelling of the Tees Valley Energy from Waste project. I spent a lot of time with the Operations and Engineering teams testing assumptions about the the design, trouble-shooting unexpected issues and providing qualified predictions about unit operation performance under various scenarios. Often this needed to done in a concise fashion to minimise lost operating time. The modelling work included both steady-state and dynamic models, and tools were also created that could be used to ongoingly assess the "health" of the plant.

Phd, Chemical Engineering

Dissertation Title "Mass and Momentum Transfer in Isothermal Sorption Vessels"

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Chemical Engineering, First Class (Hons)

Dissertation Title "Plate Heat Exchanger Performance With a Recycle Stream and Using Condensing Steam"