Organisation: MWH UK Ltd (Edinburgh)
Job title: Environmental Engineer
Describe what you do.
As a process engineer, I am experienced in plant design for chemical manufacturing and treatment of hazardous chemical waste prior to disposal.
My specialist area is in Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmosphere Regulations (DSEAR) where I assess and control the risk to safety associated with fire and explosions from flammable gas/liquids and combustible dust atmospheres.
What are you currently working on?
As an engineer, it is important to understand your transferrable skills as it would allow you to adapt your capabilities towards a variety of projects. At present, I’m working on a feasibility study for different Low to Zero Carbon technologies in micro electric generation.
What or who inspired you to become an engineer?
A lot of my family members are either architects or engineers, so I really grew up around it. It was my cousin who is a chemist that really inspired me to be a chemical engineer, it’s simply because I wanted to synthesize the chemicals she worked/tested on at a larger scale!
What excites you about Scottish engineering?
Having come from the chemical reaction industry, I envisage Scotland being a leader in process intensification for reactor design especially in oscillatory baffle reactors.
In Scotland, we already hold a few patents for their design and through research and development projects we seen the advancement of these reactors in both polymerisation and crystallisation.
Where do you see developments in your field in the future?
Speaking broadly as an engineer, I think we need to address the reality of climate change and its effects. Regardless of our specialist field in engineering we should not be depleting our current resources and potentially compromising the ability for future generations to meet their needs.
Collectively as engineers we need to see future developments in improving resource efficiency and work towards the use of sustainably-produced energy to reduce our net carbon emissions.
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