Special Interest Group in Particulate Matter Filtration Flows in Automotive and Marine Applications

About the group

The group is part of the UK Fluids Network, an EPSRC-funded network of academic and industrial research groups, focused on innovative developments and applications in Fluid Mechanics research. The group's focus is particulate matter filtration flows, in aftertreatment and other systems. With rapidly tightening emissions regulations for land and sea transport, this research area urgently needs a boost, which will be facilitated by bringing together industry and academia, as well as traditionally separated marine and automotive research communities.

The group's activities involve, but are not limited to:

• organising two meetings a year

• development of resources for UK Fluids Network and wider community (knowledge base, guides to PM regulations, resources on modelling filtration flows, UK research facility and capacity database, instructional videos, tutorials)

• creating a collaboration networks and engaging both academic and industry in particulate matter flow research

• defining targets and building consortia for funding bids.

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Project team

Organisers

• SIG Leader: Dr. Svetlana Aleksandrova, University of Leicester (sa1020@leicester.ac.uk).

• SIG Co-Lead: Dr. Humberto Medina, University of Nottingham (h.medina@nottingham.ac.uk).

• SIG Co-Lead: Dr. Andy Williams, University of Chester

Group members (academic)

• Professor Stephen Benjamin, Coventry University

• Dr. Maria Bogarra-Macias, University of Birmingham

• Dr. Nwabueze Emekwuru, Coventry University

• Dr. Martin Herreros, University of Birmingham

• Dr. Geoff McCullough, Queen University Belfast

• Dr. Alan J. Murphy, Newcastle University

• Dr. Kayvan Pazouki, Newcastle University

• Professor Athanasios Tsolakis, University of Birmingham

• Dr. Edward Long, Loughborough University

Group members (industry)

• Jon Andersson, Ricardo UK Ltd

• Paul Crowhurst, Evolution Measurement

• Dr. Paul Dunkley, Jaguar Land Rover

• Darren Ellis, Perkins Engines Company Limited

• Jonathan Hall, MAHLE Powertrain Ltd

• David M. Heaton, Caterpillar | Performance Development and Aftertreatment Innovation and Technology Development Division – UK

• Chunxing Lin, Jaguar Land Rover

• Dr. Jakub Piaszyk, JCB Power Systems Ltd

• Dave Scapens, Luxfer MEL Technologies

• Ross Wombwell, British Marine Federation& British Marine Boat Shows

• Professor Reza Ziarati, Centre for Factories of the Future

Upcoming events

We are now planning the next SIG meeting, provisionally taking place at the end of the year 2024. If you have any suggestions for meeting venue, theme and presentations, please contact Svetlana Aleksandrova (sa1020@leicester.ac.uk) or Humberto Medina (h.medina@nottingham.ac.uk).

Past meetings

Use the links below for information about previous meetings. Please note that this site is being updated and copies of previous meeting presentations have not been migrated yet.

1 Particulate matter flows: requirements and opportunities

2 Particulate Matter flows: experimental methods and measurements

3 Particulate matter flows: more applications

4 Particulate matter flows: marine sector

5 Particulate matter flows: new and mature technologies

6 Future challenges and directions for particle filtration

7 Particle filtration flows: pandemic online edition

8 Technology challenges for addressing urban air quality

9 Particulate Matter: Lifecycle and Mitigation