Welcome to the Dr Salman Soltani Research Group Website! We’re based in the department of Chemical Engineering, Brunel University London, UK. Our research group primarily focuses on the synthesis of efficient and cost-effective adsorbents for application in carbon capture and water treatment, as well as advanced process design and modelling within carbon capture and clean hydrogen production. For further insight into our research, please click on the tab research overview for a further in-depth focus on the work we do.

About Salman… Salman is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor in the US system) in Chemical Engineering. He joined Brunel University London as a founding member of the new Department of Chemical Engineering in May 2017, as part of the team in charge of the design and development of the Programme.

Before joining Brunel University London, Salman worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Chemical Engineering (Clean Fossil & Bioenergy Research Group) at Imperial College London, UK (07/2015 – 05/2017) contributing to several EPSRC as well as EU- and OECD-consultancy projects (Opening New Fuels for UK Generation; Gas-FACTS; CO2QUEST) in the realms of biomass combustion and the modelling and optimisation of CO2 capture & utilisation processes - in Professor Paul Fennell's research group and in collaboration with Professor Niall Mac Dowell and Professor Nilay Shah. Prior to this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Knowledge Transfer Partnership Research Associate with Dr Shenyi Wu (Fluids and Thermal Engineering Research Group) at the University of Nottingham, UK (08/2013 – 07/2015) during which, he was fully based at A-Gas International ltd. production site in Bristol (UK), where he worked as a Project/Process Engineer on a major joint engineering research and process design project, involving the research, front end engineering design (FEED), detailed design, and development of a bespoke industrial-scale gas separation process.

Salman was awarded the University of Nottingham Scholarship to study for a PhD in Chemical Engineering (2011 - 2014). He conducted his research with the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, where he studied the effects of pyrolysis conditions on the structure of porous carbonaceous adsorbents synthesised from recycled waste, and the effect of subsequent surface modification on heavy metal removal from aqueous media. He also has an MSc (2008) and a BSc (2005) in Chemical Engineering.