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A source-linked record of model development, scientific analysis and technical contributions from Peter’s research career. These are not completed-client case studies for Wade Geochemical Consulting.

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University research · reporting period 2016–2019

Individual modelling contribution

From soil experiments to a geochemical model.

The University of Sheffield credits Peter with developing a PHREEQC-based Soil Column Geochemical Model to connect soil-and-basalt experiments with numerical simulation.

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A relevant foundation for examining mineral reactions, experimental assumptions and model behaviour.

The reporting period describes the research programme, not employment dates. No programme code or datasets are supplied by this site.

University of Sheffield: Theme 1, 2016–2019

University research · reporting period 2019–2021

Individual and collaborative modelling

Connecting water movement and chemical reactions.

Sheffield attributes a one-dimensional soil reactive-transport model to Peter, including variable flow, weathering, precipitation and adsorption. It separately credits Peter, Euripides Kantzas and Mark Lomas with refining national-scale enhanced-weathering modelling. Peter's supplied professional profile also describes basalt–soil reactive-transport scripts and later adaptations.

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Relevant to conceptual-model review and the relationship between reaction, transport and interpretation.

The Sheffield source supports the named model-development roles; the script and adaptation detail is Peter's own account. Neither establishes sole ownership of the wider programme or permission to reuse its code.

University of Sheffield: Theme 1, 2019–2021

Co-authored research · 2025

Published author contribution

Interpreting field-trial porewater evidence.

The Scottish enhanced-weathering paper credits Peter with formal analysis and review/editing.

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Relevant to the interpretation of field evidence and the limits of carbon-removal estimates.

The paper concerns potential removal at its study site. It is not a guarantee of removal or proof of accredited verification services.

Frontiers in Climate: Scottish field-trial paper (2025)

Co-authored research · 2022

Published author contribution

Supporting experimental interpretation with PHREEQC.

The basalt–potato mesocosm paper identifies Peter’s help with data analysis and PHREEQC modelling, alongside contributions to interpretation and writing.

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A connection between experimental observations and a defensible chemical explanation.

The author statement attributes the experimental work to other researchers. This site does not reassign it to Peter.

Frontiers in Climate: basalt mesocosm paper (2022)

Industrial chemistry publication · 1999

Acknowledged technical contribution

Aqueous speciation in an industrial system.

Kathryn C. Sole’s titanium-recovery paper acknowledges Peter, then identified with CSIR’s Water Quality Information Systems, for the speciation modelling reported in the paper.

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Relevant industrial-chemistry experience for questions about aqueous species and interpretation.

This is an acknowledged contribution, not a co-authored publication or a claim to process-plant design responsibility.

Hydrometallurgy: titanium recovery, Part 1 (1999)

Applied Geochemistry · 2026

Co-authored research

Reactive transport and steel-slag carbonation.

Peter is a co-author of the 2026 study on geochemical modelling of CO₂ sequestration through steel-slag weathering. His supplied professional profile describes adapting PHREEQC scripts, extending thermodynamic and kinetic data, and advising on use of the customised framework.

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Adds published research context for mineral-residue and carbon-mineralisation enquiries.

The publication establishes co-authorship; the individual task detail is Peter's own account, not independently allocated in the publication record. No commercial performance or engineering outcome is promised.

Heriot-Watt University: 2026 steel-slag publication record

Research dates refer to publications or programme reports, not a reconstructed employment chronology. No previous employer, research programme or publisher is presented as a client or endorser of this practice.

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