Summary
Dr Geoff Fowler is a Senior Research Fellow and the Laboratory Manager for the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering section.
He completed his PhD at Imperial College in 1993, titled "The thermal conversion of contaminated soils in carbonaceous adsorbents".
His research experience and publications encompasses the wider waste and resources field including: the fundamental chemistry of waste-binder interactions in stabilisation-solidification systems technologies; contaminated soil remediation, leaching and the analysis of organic compounds from plastic materials; activated carbon production, testing, surface modification and regeneration; faecal sludge and sewage sludge treatment and valorisation; waste tyre disassembly buy Ultra High pressure Water; Recovered carbon black production and reuse from end of life tyres; carbon capture and storage.
He is a leading expert in the evaluation and application of both thermal and microwave pyrolysis, carbonisation and gasification systems for processing waste carbon-based materials. His research work has particular focus on recovery of carbon and its reuse, and has built several laboratory-pilot-scale systems.
Geoff is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist, and is the Chairman of the British Carbon Group, chairing the organising committee of the World Carbon Conference "Carbon'22".
He is a senior trustee of the Society of Chemical Industry and is the youngest recipient of its prestigious "Lampitt Medal".
Publications
Journals
Koulouri ME, Templeton MR, Fowler GD, 2024, Enhancing the nitrogen and phosphorus content of faecal-derived biochar via adsorption and precipitation from human urine, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol:352, ISSN:0301-4797
Gomez M, Grimes S, Fowler G, 2023, Novel hydrometallurgical process for the recovery of copper from end-of-life mobile phone printed circuit boards using ionic liquids, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol:420, ISSN:0959-6526
Koulouri ME, Templeton MR, Fowler GD, 2023, Source separation of human excreta: effect on resource recovery via pyrolysis, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol:338, ISSN:0301-4797, Pages:1-10
Bowles AJ, Nievas A, Fowler GD, 2023, Consecutive recovery of recovered carbon black and limonene from waste tyres by thermal pyrolysis in a rotary kiln, Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, Vol:32, ISSN:2352-5541
Bowles AJ, Fowler GD, 2022, Assessing the impacts of feedstock and process control on pyrolysis outputs for tyre recycling, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol:182, ISSN:0921-3449