Contact Dr Kapil Garg
Areas of expertise
- Renewable Energy
Background
Kapil is currently working as a Research Fellow in Membrane Processes in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Cranfield University. He is developing the hybrid inline-coagulation and ultrafiltration process for the efficient removal of the natural organic matter in drinking water applications. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester and he worked on the compressed air energy storage project. Also, at Cranfield only, he explored the kinetics of nucleating and crystal growth in the reactive crystallisation systems for simultaneous recovery of ammonium bicarbonate crystals and biogas upgrading through a European Research Council funded project. Before this, he spent more than 5 and half years in PhD at IIT Ropar, India where he worked on HDH desalination technology driven by solar energy. He looked at the thermodynamics and heat transfer aspects of this system. He has completed his bachelor's in mechanical engineering in 2015 from Chitkara University, India. As there are millions of people who do not have access to one of the very basic needs to sustain human life which is water. His goal is to be an expert in the area of water purification and desalination technologies and to develop an affordable technology for people living in water-scarce regions on this planet and make their life better.
Research opportunities
His research interest is thermal desalination processes such as MED, HDH and MD specially driven by the low-grade heat produced available from geothermal, solar, waste etc.
Current activities
He is currently working on an EU H2020 project called REWAISE (Resilient water innovation for smart economy) in which the objective is to design and engineer a low-cost, low-energy and carbon-neutral thermal desalination facility to produce 200 m3 per day of fresh water for Tenerife Island.
Clients
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India