Dr Jitka MacAdam
Research Fellow in Chemical Processes
Location: Building 39, Cranfield campus
E: j.macadam@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x3336
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Jitka MacAdam's main research focus is on a better understanding of the formation and control of inorganic precipitant such as calcium carbonate. She has investigated the link between scale formation on heat transfer surfaces and the impact both their material and surface characteristics has on scale formation.
In addition, a recent Carbon Connections funded project has experimentally tested the link between scale formation and the energy efficiency of domestic boilers. Dr MacAdam also undertakes consultancy work in scaling and corrosion and has over the past few years developed a range of innovative test methodologies to assess scale formation in domestic devices.
Dr MacAdam is also involved in research, looking at the application and scale-up of advanced oxidation processes to both water and wastewater treatment. She has been heavily involved in the development of a membrane chemical reactor (MC-R) based on titanium dioxide photocatalysis.
She is also involved in the Yorkshire Water strategic partnership and is currently working on a project optimising a sludge treatment process.
Clients
- Sentinel Performance Solutions
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Carbon Connections
- Yorkshire Water
- EU funded research project INNOWATECH
- DTi
- Campbell Applied Physics
- United Utilities
- Kohler Mira
Background
Dr Jitka MacAdam obtained her first degree in Biochemistry, specialising in Biochemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague.
In 2000, she took up a position as a Research Assistant at Cranfield University studying calcium carbonate chemistry with emphasis on scale formation in domestic appliances. She went on to do her PhD at Cranfield on the same subject with particular interest in the inhibitory effects of trace metals such as zinc and copper on calcium carbonate formation.
Dr MacAdam graduated in 2005 and following a maternity break, stayed on at Cranfield University as a postdoctoral researcher working on a number of projects including the application of advanced oxidation for both potable and wastewater treatment and broadening her expertise in calcium carbonate chemistry and inhibition.
