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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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Automated synthesis and Artificial Intelligence guided discovery of heterogenous catalysts for CO oxidation.
Chatterjee, S. (PI), Chew, J. (CoI) & Perera, S. (CoI)
1/10/24 → 1/01/27
Project: Research-related funding
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EPSRC IAA - Development, testing and supplying of chemically impregnated carbon foam samples for removal of H2S and ammonia
Perera, S. (PI) & Chew, J. (CoI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
19/08/24 → 31/03/25
Project: Research council
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A Pioneering, Near-Zero-Carbon and All-Climate-Adaptive Air Conditioning System Using Atmospheric Latent Heat and Natural Light Energy
Perera, S. (PI)
1/10/23 → 31/03/27
Project: Research council
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A Pioneering, Near-Zero-Carbon and All-Climate-Adaptive Air Conditioning System Using Atmospheric Latent Heat and Natural Light Energy
Perera, S. (PI) & Herdes Moreno, C. (CoI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/09/23 → 28/02/27
Project: Research council
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Accelerated modelling of moisture diffusion controlled drying using coupled physics informed neural network.
Barnard, J., Chew, J., Perera, S., Şimşek, Ö., Balquis, K. & Barker, J., 31 May 2024, In: Food and Bioproducts Processing. 145, p. 67-77 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A holistic approach to improving safety for battery energy storage systems
Close, J., Barnard, J. E., Chew, Y. M. J. & Perera, S., 31 May 2024, In: Journal of Energy Chemistry. 92, p. 422-439 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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A New Generation of Activated Carbon Adsorbent Microstructures
Grigor, E., Carver, J., Bulan, E., Scott, S., Chew, J. & Perera, S., 13 Nov 2024, In: Advanced Science. 11, 42, 2406551.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The next generation of low tritium hydrogen isotope separation technologies for future fusion power plants
Shere, L., Hill, A. K., Mays, T. J., Lawless, R., Brown, R. & Perera, S. P., 15 Feb 2024, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 55, p. 319-338 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Minerals recovery from a rare earth extraction wastewater by a combined chemical precipitation and membrane distillation process
Ge, X., Xie, M., Chen, G., Perera, S., Zheng, C. & Huang, M., 1 Mar 2023, In: Separation and Purification Technology. 308, 122899.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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