Dr Emma Ireland
The Impact of High Frequency Flow Pulsation on Fluidised Bed Drying

November 2014 - June 2017

BIOGRAPHY

I graduated from Writtle Agricultural College in 2010, with a First Class Honours in Conservation and the Environment.  After graduating, I worked in a small Mayfair fund of hedge funds in the finance team, before going back to study in the Energy Futures Doctoral Training Centre at Sheffield.

RESEARCH

Working within the Particle Technology Group under the supervision of Rachel Smith, my research involved the study of high frequency pulsed flows in fluidised beds in processes such as drying.  I graduated in 2017 with my thesis titled ‘The impact of high frequency flow pulsation on fluidised bed drying’. 

PUBLICATIONS

• E. Ireland, K. Pitt, R. Smith, A review of pulsed flow fluidisation: the effects of intermittent gas flow on fluidised gas-solid bed behaviour, Powder Technology. 292 (2016) 108-121​