by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Jul 23, 2025
Bioprocesses play a critical role in producing enzymes, hormones, antibodies, and other high-value proteins for sectors ranging from pharmaceuticals to food and consumer goods. One major challenge in this field is predicting whether these engineered proteins will be...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Jul 23, 2025
Experimental research in chemical engineering and biotechnology often involves vast design spaces, expensive experiments, and competing objectives. Whether it is tuning process conditions for a reactor or screening hundreds of enzyme variants for improved activity,...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | May 9, 2025
We are pioneering the use of integrated, computer-based systems comprised of simulation, analytics and advanced process optimisation tools to develop autonomous reaction systems. These systems are employed to identify kinetic models online for model-based reaction...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Mar 13, 2025
Fusion offers the possibility of clean and abundant energy, but faces many engineering challenges. For the conversion of thermal energy into electricity, two challenges are addressed here: operation of prototype fusion tokamaks may be pulsed due to operational...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Dec 18, 2024
Chemical Engineering – Imperial College London Costas Pantelides earned his BSc and PhD from Imperial College and his MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With more than thirty years of experience in process modelling technology, he has been...
