Lancaster Environment Centre

Lancaster Environment Centre supports the creation of new businesses and growth of established rapidly expanding enterprises by providing access to extensive technical resources and knowledge for new product and services development. We are equally committed to working with larger organisations showing leadership in corporate social responsibility.

We are particularly seeking to develop new university research partnerships with businesses and industry in the water, energy, chemicals, contaminated land, environmental monitoring, environmental clean-up, and nuclear sectors. More specific research areas in these fields are listed below.

Our research partnerships are mutually beneficial and should lead to faster growth of your business. Our case studies highlight the benefits of working with us.

To maximise the benefit of working with us you can locate your company or research team here at Lancaster Environment Centre.

We are seeking to support businesses through research partnerhsips in the following fields:

• Improving crop yields and crop quality
• Minimising water and resource use
• Researching new agrochemicals
• Understanding the environmental impact and fate of agrochemicals

• Monitoring and modelling of organic pollution
• Measuring and modelling coastal change
• Passive air quality samplers
• Remediation of contaminated land, particularly by bioremediation
• Ground surveying and leak detection
• Risk assessments

• Catchment management
• Understanding diffuse pollution in water systems
• Modelling of water resources
• Nutrient laboratory for water quality testing
• Surface and groundwater quality
• Flood risk analysis and prevention

• Generation of renewable energy, particularly hydro
• Fluid machinery for wet renewables
• Research into energy policy
• Environmental and social impacts of generation

• Environmental and Social impact
• Impact of climate and coastal change
• Radioecology and epidemeology
• Radiation detection
• Radiochemical Analysis

• Chemicals legislation compliance (REACH)
• Studies of chemicals in the environment.
• Chemical fate, behaviour and effects
• Exposure and risk assessment
• Quantification of food chain transfer