Personal statement
Prior to starting my academic career, I worked in industry for over 20 years, latterly in the pipeline industry for 7 years as an integrity consultant for GE Oil and Gas. In this role, I was responsible for providing fitness-for-purpose, remaining life and corrosion assessments for onshore and offshore pipelines. I have also worked as a materials engineer in the petrochemical and power generation industries involved with the operation, maintenance and design of chemical and power plant.
My primary research interest, developed since my move to academia from industry, is in the use of pipeline infrastructure to deliver pathways to Net Zero – primarily in the transportation of carbon dioxide (CO2) for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes and hydrogen as a replacement for oil and gas in the energy mix. In this area my research topics have included:
- material and specification requirements for CO2 and H2 pipelines,
- techniques for conducting Quantitative Risk Assessments, including pipeline failure frequency and consequence analysis
- hydraulic network design and developing system flexibility,
- techno-economics and wider economy impacts.
My wider research interests include the modelling of structural damage and corrosion on structures, particularly relating to onshore and offshore energy infrastructure.
Professional activities
- Centre for Energy Policy Energy Conversations:Stop talking tech – why should people care about energy technology and policy?
- Speaker
- 28/3/2019
- Cybersecurity and Marine Big Data
- Member of programme committee
- 13/11/2018
- Stakeholder engagement meeting
- Participant
- 13/2/2018
- Stakeholder engagement meeting
- Participant
- 7/2/2018
- PhD Reading Committee - Utrecht University
- External Examiner
- 4/9/2015
- External examiner for MSc programmes at Robert Gordon University
- External Examiner
- 1/12/2014
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Projects
- An Integrated smart system of Ultrafiltration, Photocatalysis, thermal desalination for wastewater treatment (Newton Institutional Links)
- Oterkus, Selda (Principal Investigator) Oterkus, Erkan (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2022
- An Integrated smart system of Ultrafiltration, Photocatalysis, thermal desalination for wastewater treatment (Newton Institutional Links) / R200012
- Oterkus, Selda (Principal Investigator) Oterkus, Erkan (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2022
- ISCF Scotland's Net Zero Roadmap (SNZR)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2020
- Accounting and scenario analyses to measuring and unlocking value to enable Just Transitions in the decarbonisation of uk industry clusters
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Swales, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2021
- The Role of CCUS in Industry Clusters in Delivering Value to the Political Economy
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Alabi, Oluwafisayo Titilope (Researcher) Katris, Antonios (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- The role of CCS in industry clusters in delivering value to the political economy
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
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Address
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Henry Dyer Building
Henry Dyer Building
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