“iucrcs in northern ireland” prof jim swindall obe quill research centre
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“IUCRCs in Northern Ireland” Prof Jim Swindall OBE QUILL Research Centre Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK IUCRC 30 th Anniversary Meeting Washington, DC, 9 th January 2004. TRANSFER OF THE IUCRC CONCEPT TO NORTHERN IRELAND. Population 1,685,267. Queen’s University Belfast - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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“IUCRCs in Northern Ireland”
Prof Jim Swindall OBEQUILL Research Centre
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
IUCRC 30th Anniversary Meeting
Washington, DC, 9th January 2004
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TRANSFER OF THE IUCRC CONCEPT TO
NORTHERN IRELAND
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Population 1,685,267
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Queen’s University Belfast
• Founded in 1846
• In top 20 of 170 UK universities
• 17,500 full and part time students
• 3,500 total staff
• 1,600 teaching and research staff
• 250 buildings, half listed as being of special architectural merit
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QUESTOR
CENTRE
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THE NAMEQueen’s
University Environmental Science and Tech- nOlogy Research
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QuestorQuestorResearchResearch
AppliedAppliedResearchResearch
Blue SkiesBlue SkiesResearchResearch
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QUESTOR HISTORY
• Founded 9th May 1989
• IFI – essential pump priming
• $107,000 planning grant
• $1.122 million over 5 years
• Generated $38 million over 13 years
• Leverage over 6 and over 100
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LOCAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE NSF CONCEPT
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MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Senate
Centre PolicyCommittee
Centre DirectorIndustryAdvisory Board
National ScienceFoundation
NSFEvaluator
AcademicAdvisory Board
Centre ResearchCommittee
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QUESTOR FOCUS• End-of-pipe Treatment
• Clean Technology
• Water Treatment
• Land Remediation
• Environmental Modelling
• Environmental Communication
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INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Chemistry
Chemical
Engineering
Computer
Science
Psychology
MicrobiologyAgriculture
Civil
Engineering
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OWNERSHIP BY THE MEMBERS
• Constructive relationship
• Honoured guests
• Control of research agenda
• Anniversary prize
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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
• Holy grail of all governments
• Students and staff moving
• Industry members interacting
• Mods eg ATU and QTL help this process
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LOCAL EXTENSIONS TO THE CONCEPT
• Help for SMEs
• Applied Technology Unit
• QUESTOR Technologies Ltd.
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QUESTOR
Applied Technology Unit
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QUESTOR ATU
• Applied Technology Unit – Formed Sept
1999
Set up to apply knowledge and expertise
developed in QUESTOR to assist local
companies, particularly SMEs which
cannot afford the $32,500 membership fees
of QUESTOR
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CONSULTANCY and TRAINING
• Consultancy
• Currently 12 projects with a total value of $3.4m
• 140 Companies have used the Service
• 210 Consultancy Projects
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CONSULTANCY and TRAINING
• Training courses
• Practical Waste Minimisation
• Operation of Water Treatment Plant
• Data Collection for Environmental Management
• Site Investigation for Contaminated Land
• Environmental Communication
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QUESTOR
TECHNOLOGIES
Ltd
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QTL
Business Areas• Sludgeguard – a test for microthrix parvicella Biosettler – a process for improving the settling of
activated sludge Biocol – a process for the removal of colour from textile effluent Precursors made by biocatalysis Phosphate reduction system
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Applied Research ProgrammeFor Selected Projects with Commercial Potential
ATUConsultancy
Contract ResearchTraining
ProductSupport
ProductDevelopment
QUESTOR Research Programme
Range of Environmental ProductsBased on Novel Technologies
LINKAGES
QUESTORTechnologies
Ltd
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QUILL
Research Centre
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THE NAME
Queen’s University Ionic Liquid
Laboratories
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QUILL HISTORY• Founded on 20 April 1999
• Founding Co-Directors - Prof Ken
Seddon and Prof Jim Swindall
• 18 Members - $500,000 pa in subs
• $800,000 refurbishment of laboratory
suite completed 29th October 1999
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QUILL HISTORY• Six post docs, four technicians and fourteen
PhD students
• Numerous National Research Council grants awarded
• Manufacturing Molecules grant
• DTI/EPSRC LINK award of $950,000
• Designated an EU Marie Curie Training site in Feb 2000 and renewed Nov 2003
• Income to date $9.2 million
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Two Types of Centre
• QUESTOR – broad focus with wide range of disciplines – one Director
• QUILL – highly focussed, still interdisciplinary but leading edge research in new field – two Directors – one research and one organisation
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CONCLUSION
• Valuable mechanism for structured co-operation
• Well proven in the USA
• Flexible
• Shown to be Transferable