The GRC’s areas of expertise include:
- Modelling complex subsurface processes in a variety of media
- Thermo/Hydro/Chemical/Mechanical (THCM) behaviour of soils and rocks
- Modelling contaminant transport in different media
- Geological disposal of high level nuclear waste
- High level nuclear waste disposal modelling
- Numerical simulation
- High performance computing
- Ground source heat
- Carbon sequestration in coal seams
- Underground coal gasification
- Geoinformatics
- Geothermal energy
- Contaminated land assessment and remediation
- Landfill engineering
- Environmental chemical analyses and characterisation
- Acid mine drainage characterisation and bespoke treatment design
- Characterisation of solids, liquids and gases
- Waste characterisation, including mine, industrial and agricultural waste
- Waste treatment technologies, including composting, digestion, separation, pyrolysis, gasification, energy recovery and beneficial utilisation
- Effluent characterisation
- Energy from waste
- Environmental engineering
- Kinetic testing
- Landfill leachate studies
- Leachability studies
- Mine water treatment
- Mineral engineering
- Particulate sampling and characterisation
- Resource recovery from solid and liquid wastes
- Thermal processes
- Waste management
- Waste gasification
- Wastewater treatment
- Water treatment
- Environmental risk assessment and risk management
- Bespoke leach testing
