Short CV
Nathanial Cooper is a postdoctoral scholar in the Centre for Process Systems Engineering in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. The broad focus of his research at Imperial College London is on supply chain management for biomass.
Nathanial performed his doctoral research on the design of reactant distributors in PEM fuel cells, in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the University of California, Davis, graduating in 2016. His dissertation was on the design of gas distributors in low temperature PEM fuel cells. Gas distribution is extremely important to power output and liquid water removal. Further improvements in gas distributor design can lead to smaller fuel cell stacks, leading to cheaper fuel cell vehicles with better power-to-weight ratios.
Nathanial completed his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Brown University, graduating in 2012. During his time at Brown, he worked on several other sustainability focused topics, including agricultural waste based biochars for waste clean-up and building-level geothermal heat pumps
Project title
Development of roadmap visualization of supply chains toolkit. Work packages : WP3, WP6. Supervisor name: Prof. N. Shah or someone with the same level of expertise and /or experience. PhD enrolment: N
Objective
- To support partner NTUA in producing a platform that will enable access to collection of biorefinery related functions developed in WP1 ? WP4, specifically the results of WP3 for targeting system integration to allow for producing novel products through innovative flowsheets
- To produce strategic decision roadmaps from available portfolios of feedstocks, chemistries, technologies and business models, of a spatial and temporal nature in a systematic method which appropriately utilises the data and information available from the repositories as provided from tasks in WP3 and T6.2.
Tasks and methodology
- Roadmap visualization of supply chains: Development of a user-friendly GUI-oriented frontend for adequate accessibility of the supply chain model developed in tasks of WP3 with integration of data of T6.2 and the various domain applications of WP5.
Results
Deliverable 1: Specifications and functionalities report, Deliverable 2: Userguide
Dissemination
Conferences: PSE 2015/ESCAPE 25 (i.e. multi-scale biorenewable decision tool), Journals: Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (i.e. multi-scale biorenewable decision tool formulation)
Planned secondment
- Academic secondment 1: UoS (2 months) Collaboration of workflows for T6.4 and build prototype of biorenewables knowledge model (ontology) for model integration.
- Industrial secondment 1: Arkema (2 months)Implementation of cost models (CAPEX and OPEX) for supply chain visualisations
Risk assessment
Workflows from T6.2 and T6.3
Annex
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Fellow
ER 3.2
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Host institution
Imperial
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Duration
12 months
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Start date
M36
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Project title: Development of roadmap visualization of supply chains toolkit. Work packages : WP3, WP6. Supervisor name: Prof. N. Shah or someone with the same level of expertise and /or experience. PhD enrolment: N
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Objectives:
· To support partner NTUA in producing a platform that will enable access to collection of biorefinery related functions developed in WP1 – WP4, specifically the results of WP3 for targeting system integration to allow for producing novel products through innovative flowsheets
· To produce strategic decision roadmaps from available portfolios of feedstocks, chemistries, technologies and business models, of a spatial and temporal nature in a systematic method which appropriately utilises the data and information available from the repositories as provided from tasks in WP3 and T6.2.
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Tasks and methodology:
· Roadmap visualization of supply chains: Development of a user-friendly GUI-oriented frontend for adequate accessibility of the supply chain model developed in tasks of WP3 with integration of data of T6.2 and the various domain applications of WP5.
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Results: Deliverable 1: Specifications and functionalities report, Deliverable 2: Userguide
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Dissemination: Conferences: PSE 2015/ESCAPE 25 (i.e. multi-scale biorenewable decision tool), Journals: Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (i.e. multi-scale biorenewable decision tool formulation)
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Planned secondment:
· Academic secondment 1: UoS (2 months) Collaboration of workflows for T6.4 and build prototype of biorenewables knowledge model (ontology) for model integration.
· Industrial secondment 1: Arkema (2 months)Implementation of cost models (CAPEX and OPEX) for supply chain visualisations
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Risk assessment: Workflows from T6.2 and T6.3
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