UNB's faculty of engineering's chemical engineering department offers students the opportunity to work with innovative faculty members who have diverse expertise and research interests. With society's increasing focus on research and innovation now is a great time to consider adding to your undergraduate education.
Our students have access to labs and research centres within the Chemical Engineering department for example: in the Materials Surface Characterization Laboratory, Limerick Pulp and Paper, Nanotechnology, UNB Hydroprocessing Laboratory, Oil Recovery Laboratory, Polymer Laboratory.
Research areas
- Nuclear
- Pulp and paper
- Adsorption and gas separation
- Polymers
- Nanotechnology
- Aqueous Chemistry
- Corrosion
- Green Packaging Materials
- Cellulose Nano Materials
- Biorefinery
- Material and Radioactivity Transport
Current faculty research
Feel free to view the faculty directory for more information regarding our faculty members.
- Nuclear: Focusing on the study of the behaviour of materials in supercritical water Dr. William Cook's research lab is conducting some of the essential research anddevelopment required to make the supercritical water reactor a technical viable product. Dr. Palazhchenko's group applies experimental and computational techniques to understand corrosion product behaviour in nuclear plant systems. Bench-scale experiments, flow-through loops, and thermal-hydraulic and activity transport modelling are used to simulate plant chemistry conditions and events.
- Water and Soil Remediation: Dr Laura Romero-Zeron's current research projects include remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils, selective adsorption of pharmaceutical drugs and toxins using natural fibers, upcycling of plastic waste, recovery and identification of biosurfactants, polymer-surfactant self-assembing systems, evaluation of synthetic and biopolymers functionality, rheological evaluation of polymer-surfactant systems and biooils, and pyrolysis of biomass waste to produce value-added additives.
- Pulp and Paper: Dr. Yonghao Ni is working towards improvements in the pulping and bleaching process, and focusing research on high-yield pulp properties. Dr. Zhibin He and team are researching and developing novel and green technologies and sustainable products in the fields of pulp and paper, molded pulp products, barrier packaging materials, biorefinery, cellulose nano materials, bio-composite materials based on wood fibers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.
- Adsorption: Dr. Mladen Eiؤ‡'s recent research work has been used to determine diffusivities in gas mixtures as well as composite materials, such as bimodal materials.
- Polymers: The polymer research team and Dr. Huining Xiao have been conducting research on various projects related to the polymers as functional polymers. They work on antimicrobial polymers, strength additives and nanoparticles for value-added paper products.
- Nanotechnology: Dr. Felipe Chibante has significant experience in the research and commercialization of nanomaterials. The work conducted centres around several key areas including carbon and natural nanomaterials production, nanocomposites engineering, nanoelectronics and nanofluidics.
