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Associate Professor Mikel Duke

B.E. (Honours), Environmental, The University of Queensland (2000)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland (2004)

Principal Research Fellow of Membrane Science

Research Interests
• Enhancing material functionality in advanced inorganic and polymer composite membrane systems
• Application of membranes in established industrial and novel processes
• Desalination energy reduction in reverse osmosis and membrane distillation
• High temperature membrane gas separation for carbon-free energy
• Membrane assisted hydrogen production from anaerobic waste digestion
• Novel applications of membranes in lactic acid and ethanol production
• Nanotube membrane films development and separation performance
• Characterisation of advanced materials linking performance to configurable fundamental material properties
• Process modelling of membrane systems for optimal energy and cost arrangements

Current and Recent Research Projects
• H2 production from anaerobic digestion of organic waste using a novel membrane (ARC Discovery)
• Membrane distillation of brine wastes (CRC for Water Quality and Treatment)
• Low energy desalination (UniQuest Pathfinder)
• Size and cost of a 250MW hydrogen ceramic membrane purification plant (Centre for Low Emissions Technology)
• Hydrogen storage system analysis (Ecotality, USA)
• UQ/ASU partnership to design industrially suitable zeolite membranes for desalination (ARC International Linkage)
• Lactic acid dewatering by microporous inorganic membranes (UQ New Staff Fund)

Awards
• Linkage International Fellowship: Australian Research Council (2007)
• Trailblazer Innovation Finalist: UniQuest (2005)
• High Impact Publication Commendation: ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, The University of Queensland (2005)
• Poster Award: BioNano - The Next Frontier, Brisbane (2005)
• Overseas Research Travel Award: The University of Queensland (2003)
• Student Presentation Award: Fifth International Membrane Science and Technology Conference, Sydney (2003)

Professional Affiliations
• Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust)
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Professional Experience
• 2008- present: Principal Research Fellow of Membrane Science, Victoria University, Australia
• 2007 – 2008: Research Fellow, Arizona State University, USA
• 2006 – 2007: Lecturer, CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development and The University of Queensland, Australia
• 2004 – 2005: Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, The University of Queensland, Australia

Email: mikel.duke@vu.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 9919 7682
Fax: +61 3 9919 7696

Selected Publications
Duke, M. C., Lim, A., Castro da Luz, S. and Nielsen, L. (2008). "Lactic acid enrichment with inorganic nanofiltration and molecular sieving membranes by pervaporation." Food and Bioproducts Processing accepted - in press (doi: 10.1016/j.fbp.2008.01.005).

Battersby, S., Duke, M. C., Liu, S., Rudolph, V. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2008). "Metal doped silica membrane reactor: Operational effects of reaction and permeation for the water gas shift reaction." Journal of Membrane Science In Press, Corrected Proof(doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2007.11.021 ).

Duke, M. C., Mee, S. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2007). "Performance of porous inorganic membranes in non-osmotic desalination." Water Research 41(17): 3998-4004.

Abdel-jawad, M. M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Duke, M. C., Macrossan, M. N., Schneider, P. S. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2007). "Flowfields on feed and permeate sides of tubular molecular sieving silica (MSS) membranes." Journal of Membrane Science 299(1-2): 229-235.

Lu, G. Q., Diniz da Costa, J. C., Duke, M., Giessler, S., Socolow, R., Williams, R. H. and Kreutz, T. (2007). "Inorganic membranes for hydrogen production and purification: A critical review and perspective." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 314(2): 589-603.

Schneider, P. S., Duke, M. C. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2007). "Energetics of Molecular Sieve Silica (MSS) Membranes." International Journal of Nanotechnology 4(5): 468-481.

Chen, C.-Y., Garnica-Rodriguez, J. I., Duke, M. C., Costa, R. F. D., Dicks, A. L. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2007). "Nafion/polyaniline/silica composite membranes for direct methanol fuel cell application." Journal of Power Sources 166(2): 324-330.

Duke, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Abdel-Jawad, M., Liu, S., Macrossan, M. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2007). "Hydrogen purification from coal gasification using inorganic membranes in Australia." American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry 52(2): 667-668.

Battersby, S. E., Miller, D., Zed, M., Patch, J., Rudolph, V., Duke, M. C. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2007). "Silica membrane reactors for hydrogen processing." Advances in Applied Ceramics 106(1-2): 29-34.

Duke, M. C., Diniz da Costa, J. C., Do, D. D., Lu, G. Q. and Gray, P. G. (2006). "Hydrothermally robust molecular sieve silica for wet gas separation." Advanced Functional Materials 16(9): 1215-1220.

Duke, M. C., Diniz da Costa, J. C., Lu, G. Q. and Gray, P. G. (2006). "Modelling Hydrogen Separation in High Temperature Multistage Silica Membranes Systems." AIChE Journal 52(5): 1729-1735.

Battersby, S., Teixeira, P. W., Beltramini, J., Duke, M. C., Rudolph, V. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2006). "An analysis of the Peclet and Damkohler numbers for dehydrogenation reactions using Molecular Sieve Silica (MSS) membrane reactors." Catalysis Today 116(1): 12-17.

Tran, A. T. T., Duke, M. C., Gray, P. G. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2006). "Characterization of Titanium Phosphate as Electrolytes in Fuel Cells." International Journal of Modern Physics B 20(25,26&27): 4147-4151.

Duke, M. C., Lim, B. and Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2005). "Enhanced Ethanol Dehydration with Hydrostable Inorganic Pervaporation Membranes." Brazilian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering 7: 41-49.

Duke, M. C., Diniz da Costa, J. C., Lu, G. Q., Petch, M. and Gray, P. (2004). "Carbonised template molecular sieve silica membranes in fuel processing systems: permeation, hydrostability and regeneration." Journal of Membrane Science 241(2): 325-333.

Last Updated: April 24, 2008