Research Facility/Centre | Green Process Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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St. John's

Green Process Engineering Laboratory (GPEL) at Memorial University provides expertise and facilities to carry out research on the development of eco-friendly functional materials and their applications in the detection, removal and degradation of water contaminants. By using renewable feedstock and green solvents, functional materials (e.g. carbon quantum dots-based fluorescent sensors, porous biopolymer-based adsorbents, and nanocarbon modified TiO₂ etc.) fabricated in GPEL are biocompatible and biodegradable in nature, without any negative environmental impacts.

Research facility in GPEL also enables the design and development of novel separation and reaction processes in converting biomass/residues into bioenergy and other value-added products.