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Professor Semali Perera has a BSc (Eng) in Chemical Engineering and a PhD from Brunel University, Uxbridge. In 2002 she won the Mary Tasker Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Teaching. In 2007 she won the prestigious Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation.
Research
Semali’s research interests are centered on the design and development of hollow fibres and novel low pressure drop monolithic structures/devices from nano materials for adsorptive separations and environmental protection. Her research also focuses on the development of biodegradable biocompatible polymer vehicle for cancer treatment.
Semali’s research is in the field of advanced separations and nanotechnology. In particular, she has expertise relating to the manufacture and testing of membranes and structured adsorbents from polymeric and ceramic materials.
She is the lead inventor of a novel adsorbent hollow fibre technology that is being developed and commercialised by nanoporous solutions limited (n-psl, university spin-off company).
Semali is concentrating on a number of important applications such as process integrated valuable material recovery and recycling, wastewater treatment, VOC removal and recovery from waste gases. She is also concentrating on developing a sustained chemotherapy release device for cancer treatment.
Bath has overcome the engineering challenges by designing and developing a bio-degradable, implantable multiple drug delivery vehicle. Professor Perera’s expertise is combined with clinical expertise from the Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Centre at the RUH, who are collaborating in both the design/formulation and the testing of the platinum based drug encapsulated delivery vehicles.
She has collaborated extensively with industry and educational establishments around the world. Recent and current research projects range from portable oxygen generation using low pressure drop structures for COPD patients to technology for toxic industrial chemical removal.
Teaching interests
- Reaction engineering
- Advanced separations
- Pollution control
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Hub 'Science' 3: Catalysis for the Circular Economy and Sustainable Manufacturing - WP5 Catalytic Treatment to reduce biofouling of membranes
Patterson, E. E., Perera, S. & Plucinski, P.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/12/18 → 30/11/22
Project: Research council
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KTP with IoMosaic international Ltd
Şimşek, Ö., Chew, J. & Perera, S.
26/07/21 → 25/01/24
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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IAA3 - Centre for Advanced Separations Engineering Industrial Engagement/Networking Event
Perera, S., Bird, M., Castro Dominguez, B., Chew, J., Düren, T., Eslava, S., Herdes Moreno, C., Lennox, M., Mattia, D. & Mays, T.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
2/01/18 → 31/03/21
Project: Research council
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Bactericidal – Bacteriostatic Foam Filters for Air Treatment
G, R., Camus, O., Chew, J., Crittenden, B. & Perera, S., 10 Apr 2020, In: ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2, 4, p. 1569-1578 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparison of MIL-101(Cr) metal-organic framework and 13X zeolite monoliths for CO2 capture
Hong, W. Y., Perera, S. & Burrows, A., 1 Dec 2020, In: Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 308, 110525.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low burden, adsorbent and heat absorbing structures for respiratory protection in building fires
Barnard, J., Scott, S., Tennison, S., Smith, M. W., Burrows, A., Perera, S. & Chew, J., 25 Nov 2020, In: Chemical Engineering Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Development of Regenerative and Low Pressure Drop Adsorbent Structure for Biogas Upgrading
Hong, W. Y., Perera, S. P. & Burrows, A. D., Dec 2019, 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2019. IEEE, 9162348. (2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2019).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Synthesis of Novel Regenerable 13X Zeolite-Polyimide Adsorbent Foams
G, R., Crittenden, B., Smith, M., Camus, O., Chew, Y-M. & Perera, S., 1 Apr 2019, In: Chemical Engineering Journal. 361, p. 736-750 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)75 Downloads (Pure)
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Dataset for "Zeolite Minilith: A Unique Structured Catalyst for the Methanol to Gasoline Process"
Omojola, T. (Creator), Cherkasov, N. (Creator), Rebrov, E. (Creator), Lukyanov, D. (Creator) & Perera, S. (Creator), University of Bath, 27 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00524
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