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Postgraduate students take home decarbonisation creative award

º£½ÇÖ±²¥ postgraduate students have won an award at an engineering event dedicated to creating cost-effective solutions to reduce the carbon footprint in our local area.

A group of six MSc Chemical Engineering students picked up the Most Creative Idea award at the Decarbonisation Hackathon after pitching a feasible and cost-effective idea to decarbonise companies across º£½ÇÖ±²¥. Groups of students from both º£½ÇÖ±²¥ and Newcastle University attended the one-day event, organised by Worley, SABIC, and TVCA at Middlesbrough College.

The team developed an idea for the application of electrochemistry principles in carbon capture for a local company. This involved considering the overall technical and commercial feasibility, sustainability and HSE impact, energy generation and storage as well as carbon emission abatement.

The successful º£½ÇÖ±²¥ students were Ashna Basheer, Ansmol John, Minh Nguyen, Jawad Rehman, Kenechukwu Ugonabo, Sathya Nuwandi Rathnayake Weerasena.

Dr Omar Aboelazayem, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in º£½ÇÖ±²¥â€™s School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies said: ‘We are proud of all the students who attended the Decarbonisation Hackathon, especially those who received the prestigious award for the most creative idea.

‘As a University we are dedicated to learning new and efficient ways to reduce the carbon footprint in our local area, and to becoming a net zero institution by 2030.’