Background

Introduction

Dr Ben Wetenhall works in the area of CO₂ transportation with impurities. BW was the Principal Investigator and is a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC projects FleCCSnet and S-Cape. He is the lead author of the IEAGHG report "Impact of CO₂ impurity on CO₂ compression, liquefaction and transportation"  and was a researcher on the MATTRAN (EPSRC) and COOLTRANS (National Grid) projects. He has conducted consultancy work for National Grid Carbon including work on ductile fracture control for CO₂ pipelines with impurities.

BW's current research involves modelling wind and buoyancy driven CO₂ ingress into a building following a release using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Background

Wind and buoyancy ventilation, CCS pipeline transportation, hydraulic modelling, heat transfer, ductile fracture propagation, phase behaviour, CO₂ compression and liquefaction, CFD.

Research

Research Interests

Carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon dioxide transportation, fracture propagation, hydraulic modelling, dispersion of CO₂, buoyancy and wind driven ventilation, heat transfer, phase behaviour, CO₂ compression and liquefaction.

Current Work

FLECCSNET, Flexible CCS Pipeline Networks

S-CAPE, Shelter and Escape in the Event of a Release of CO2 from CCS Infrastructure.

Previous Work

MATTRAN project, Materials for Next Generation CO2 Transport Systems.

COOLTRANS, Dense Phase CO2 Pipeline Transportation. 

IEAGHG, Impact of CO₂ impurity on CO₂ compression, liquefaction and transportation.

Teaching

MAR8045 Fundamentals of Subsea Engineering

MAR1009 Marine Mechanics

MAR1012 Naval Architecture (Fluid Mechanics)

MAR2018 Marine Engineering II (Heat transfer and fluids)

SFY0008 IT and Communications

Publications