TP 01: Use AI-systems (machine learning, deep learning and neural network approaches) to accelerate the digitisation in the agri-food sector
Key areas of research and competencies within the Process Engineering Cluster include:
Multiphase
Bio and Hybrid Processing
Flow and Fluid Management
Modelling (CFM, DEM, AI: ANN, Machine Learning)
Pressure
Thermal
Particle Engineering
Electronic and Micro-electromechanical Systems Research
Energy Management
Reliability and Method/Process Development
Resource Recovery
Soil Engineering and Waste Processing
Process Engineering Cluster
The research in the Bernal Process Engineering Cluster (PROC) is aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals in Health, Energy and the Environment/Sustainability. In particular, PROC focuses on:
Health
Good Health and Wellbeing, ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages:
Increasing population drives an increasing demand on food supply, and food production industries
Energy
Affordable and Clean Energy, ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all:
Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in global energy mix
Process synthesis and integration
Environment and Sustainability
Responsible Consumption and Production ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns:
Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
Solvent-free processing of advanced materials to reduce waste
Multiphase, Bio-, and Hybrid processing
Championing a Sustainable Future
Pioneering environmental solutions in waste resource recovery, waste valorisation, bio-economy, composite materials, ecology, process engineering, biofuels & circular economy
Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland (ul.ie/bernal)
Our cutting-edge materials and modelling research institute unites experts from diverse fields, driving collaboration in materials science. From pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare & Biomedical solutions, transforming the energy landscape to pioneering environmental solutions, we lead the way.
The Bernal Institute houses a wide range of state-of-the-art research equipment and facilities that allow researchers from a broad range of expertise (mechanical, chemical and biomedical engineers; physicists; materials scientists, biologists, mathematicians and chemists) to focus on individual research projects as well as large interdisciplinary research programmes. Our equipment and facilities are accessible to all researchers; academic peers, industry collaborators, University of Limerick staff and early researchers.