Dr Les Bowtell
Name | Dr Les Bowtell |
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Email Address | les.bowtell@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Electronic Engineering) |
Qualifications | BEng USQ, MEng USQ, PhD USQ |
Department | School of Engineering |
Affiliations | School of Surveying and Built Environment |
School of Nursing and Midwifery | |
Centre for Agricultural Engineering | |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-7609 |
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Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Electrical Discipline lead | University of Southern Qld | 2006 | 2023 |
Expertise
renewables Ultrasound power-electronics carbon economy
Fields of Research
- 400803. Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)
- 401103. Global and planetary environmental engineering
- 401703. Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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IEEE |
BEng
USQ
1994
MEng
USQ
1999
PhD
USQ
2011
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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The analysis and evolution of Energy Storage through a global lens utilising advancing and current technologies | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
Adding Activated Carbon into Cattle Silage to Mitigate Methane Emissions, Improve Silage Quality, and Enhance Production. | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Innovative early detection of respiratory illnesses in commercial piggeries | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Understanding the mechanisms of Arsenic mobilisation in as-rich groundwater systems - the interaction of arsenic-carbonates in sediments | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Sugarcane Gasification and carbon production systems | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2015 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Optimization of small-scale low-cost gasifier for on-farm applications | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Addition of activated carbon in a cattle diet to mitigate GHG emissions and ameliorate ingested toxins | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
The effect of biochar addition on plant major nutrient uptake in hydroponic system | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Arsenic and fluoride removal from water using bone char | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Using Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies to assess the impact of environmental stressors on animal welfare and production efficiency on modern dairy farms | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Treatment of agricultural run-off using innovative CDI filtration techniques | Principal Supervisor | Masters | 2019 |
Evaluation of sonically enhanced AGMD for industrial scale water treatment | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Development of activated carbon and composites utilizing macadamia nut shell residues for water treatment | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Thermochemical conversion of non-woody biomass: Upgrading cotton gin waste into solid fuel | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Distributed static compensator (DSTATCOM) for voltage support in Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) networks | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |