James Chadwick Building - Industrial Hub for Sustainable Engineering

James Chadwick Building which is the home for Industrial Hub for Sustainable Engineering is available for industrial collaboration. The facility houses four floors of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical, Aeronautical, & Civil Engineering instrumentation facilities with experienced technical team members dedicated to this facility. From the ground floor to the third floor consists of pilot and bench top scale chemical engineering equipment while the fourth floor houses a mechanical/civil engineering lab.

The facility is supported by knowledgeable and passionate academic staff, some of which have been involved in the design of various equipment in the building. These teams are available for support over any project lifetime and can assist with equipment design, testing, obtaining and analysing results.

The industrial hub for sustainable engineering aims to develop novel sustainable processes by academic and research staff and put these into commercial application.

The building infrastructure includes:
- Electricity supply, including high voltage
- Piped fuel gases (hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and natural gases)
- Compressed air and nitrogen
- Cooling water and towns water
- Ventilated laboratories and fume cupboards

Within the industrial hub there are many labs and working areas, each with their own area of expertise and academic lead. There are various categories of instrumentation available for internal/external cross-disciplinary researches. 
Separation Process: this includes a towering absorption column extending over two floors in the building, a continuous distillation column with an intuitive control system, three enormous vessels (1 mega litre, each) for froth flotation, a flocculation system for coagulation, large sized 1.5 m height electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) systems with diameter of 2 ft and 3 ft and capacity of more than 200 L of fluid and associated control system. 
Mixing & Sizing: includes a comprehensive mixing hub for fluid homogenisation processes, the liquid whistle-type sonolator, high shear Silverson mixer, and mastersizers.
Sustainable Fuels: there are existing and new sustainable fuel production facilities including pilot-scale H₂ production (RECYCLE project), algae-based fuels, pilot-scale Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) via Fischer Tropsch & methanol synthesis, and pyrolysis reactors for sustainable fuel oils from waste plastics.
Control Systems: the DCS system for process control include SIEMENS PLC, PCS 7, PCS NEO, ITS-2000, and EasyBuilder cMT.

Industrial partnership for researches in the James Chadwick Building include:
- Helical Energy
- Johnson Matthey
- Kent PLC
- Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
- TotalEnergies