Dr Stuart Wagland
Academic Fellow in Energy from Waste
Location: Building 40, Cranfield campus
E: s.t.wagland@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2404
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Stuart Wagland is an Academic Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at Cranfield University. He is currently working on a number of projects which focus on the properties of organic waste materials, such as the composition and energy recovery potential of UK waste streams. These projects include:
- Identification of the next generation of energy from waste technologies, funded by the Energy Technologies Institute [ETI] which involved the assessment of available wastes in the UK and pilot-scale tests including gasification and pyrolysis
- TSB-funded research on determining the renewable energy potential and energy yield from the bio-based fraction of waste materials.
Stuart is directly involved with the management of various taught modules and delivering lectures across a number of MSc courses, along with the supervision of research students across a range of industry-relevant topics.
Clients
- Caterpillar UK
- Central Leather Research Institute, India [CLRI]
- Centre for Process Innovation [CPI]
- Covanta Energy Ltd
- Department for Energy and Climate Change [DECC]
- Defra
- East London Waste Authority [ELWA]
- EDF energy
- Energy Technologies Institute [ETI]
- European Institute for Energy Research [EIfER]
- Guernsey State Government
- Infinis Ltd
- National Physical Laboratory [NPL]
- Shanks Waste Management
- Small Business Research Initiative [SBRI]
- Technology Strategy Board [TSB]
- The Open University
- WRc plc
Background
Stuart joined Cranfield University as a Research Fellow in 2009, and became an Academic Fellow in 2011. He has a degree in Chemistry, and completed a PhD at Cranfield University in Environmental Chemistry in 2008 focusing on the rapid measurement of the biodegradable content of organic waste material. He is a Chartered Chemist [CChem] and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry [RSC].
Stuart has interests in the properties of organic waste materials, which range from household waste to commercial and industrial wastes, and has significant expertise in the properties and characterisation of waste materials. He has previously specialised in the measurement of the biodegradable content of organic waste and was involved in the development of a rapid biodegradability test method at Cranfield University. His current work involves the understanding of physical and chemical properties of organic materials for the recovery of energy from waste, and the energy from the biogenic fraction of wastes.
