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Staff Profile

Professor Jonathan Lee

Professor of Carbon Capture

  • Address: School of Engineering,
    Room C204A, Merz Court,
    Â鶹´«Ã½,
    Claremont Road,
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne,
    NE1 7RU
Background

Qualifications

B.Eng. (Hons) Chemical and Process Engineering

Ph.D. Chemical and Process Engineering

Certificate in Teaching and Learning

Areas of expertise

Intensified carbon capture processes

Rotating packed beds

Post combustion carbon capture

Microalgae harvesting

Conversation of microalgae to biofuels

Microalgae biocomposites for carbon


Previous Positions

2024 - present Professor of Carbon Capture, School of Engineering, Â鶹´«Ã½

2017 - 2024 Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Â鶹´«Ã½.

1997 - 2017 Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Â鶹´«Ã½.

1995 - 1997 Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bradford. Teaching Fluid Mechanics and conducting research on solvent extraction in rotating equipment and electrically assisted coalescence in water in crude oil dispersions.

1993 - 1995 Research Associate, Process intensification Group, University of Â鶹´«Ã½. Working on Solvent Extraction in Rotating Packed Bed Contactors.

Memberships

Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers

Languages

French

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Research

Research Interests

Process Intensification - Rotating Packed Beds

Biofuel and chemical production from algae

Algae harvesting

Research themes:

 

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Other Expertise

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Algae Harvesting

Current Work

Intensification of solvent based post combustion carbon capture using rotating packed beds

Hydrodynamics of co current and counter current multiphase flows in rotating systems

Harvesting of marine micro algae using a foam column

Selective removal of ciliates from algal culture using a foam column

particle production in a foam column

Catalytic pyrolysis of micro algae.

Catalytic cracking of vegetable oil.

Future Research

 

 

Esteem Indicators

Invited Presentations to the Netherlands Process Intensification Network
Reviewer for Chemical Engineering Science.
Reviewer for Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research.

Industrial Relevance

Consultancy

Specialist Expertise
Solvent extraction, in particular rotating liquid-liquid contactors for the extraction of product from fermentation broths. We have a rotating solvent extraction unit that can be used for small scale trials.
Fluid flow/ multiphase flow: Expert in the use of FLUENT software to simulate complex fluid flow problems, in particular solid particle  gas flows.
Biofuels: Biodiesel and the use of algae to provide oil for conversion into biodiesel.

Teaching

I teach thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and process design. I believe that group design projects play a vital role in linking student knowledge from single subjects to give an overview of what professional chemical engineers do,  the problems they have to solve and the issues they have to consider.

 Currently I am involved in delivering the following modules

CME2023 – Transfer Processes 2 - Module Leader
CME3039 – Design Project – Module Leader
CME8107 – Process Intensification
CME8117 – MEng Research Project
CME8119 – Advanced Transport Processes – Module Leader

 
Publications

  • Articles

    • Hendry J, Lee J. . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2025, 64(5), 2872–2879.
    • Aliyu A, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. . Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 2023, 14, 100474.
    • Al-Humairi ST, Lee JGM, Harvey AP, Salman AD, Juzsakova T, Van B, Le PC, La DD, Mungray AK, Show PL, Nguyen DD. . Science of the Total Environment 2023, 862, 160702.
    • In-na P, Byrne F, Caldwell GS, Lee JGM. . Algal Research 2022, 66, 102781.
    • In-Na P, Lee JGM, Caldwell GS. . Journal of Industrial Textiles 2022, 51(4_suppl), 5683S-5707S.
    • In-na P, Sharp E, Caldwell GS, Unthank M, Perry J, Lee JGM. . Scientific Reports 2022, 12, 18735.
    • Al-Humairi ST, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. . Energy Conversion and Management: X 2022, 16, 100284.
    • Hendry J, Reay D, Lee J. . Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2022, 33, 101373.
    • Hart R, In-na P, Kapralov MV, Lee JGM, Caldwell GS. . Journal of Applied Phycology 2021, 33, 1525-1540.
    • Aliyu A, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. . Bioresource Technology Reports 2021, 15, 100694.
    • Aliyu A, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. . Bioresource Technology Reports 2021, 15, 100694.
    • Luo X, Wang M, Lee J, Hendry J. . Applied Energy 2021, 301(2), 117462.
    • Alkarawi MAS, Caldwell GS, Lee JGM. . Algal Research 2021, 61, 102558.
    • Alkarawi MAS, Caldwell GS, Lee JGM. . Algal Research 2021, 54, 102203.
    • Hendry JR, Lee JGM, Attidekou PS. . Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification 2020, 151, 1079008.
    • In-na P, Umar AA, Wallace AD, Flickinger MC, Caldwell GS, Lee JGM. . Journal of CO2 Utilization 2020, 42, 101348.
    • Hendry J, Lee JGM. . The Chemical Engineer 2020, 953, 30-33.
    • Tait A, Lee JGM, Williams BR, Montague GA. . Food and Bioproducts Processing 2019, 116, 30-40.
    • Hendry JR, Lee JGM, Battrum MJ. . Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2019, 143, 201-214.
    • Alkarawi MAS, Caldwell GS, Lee JGM. . Algal Research 2018, 36, 125-138.
    • Outram V, Lalander C-A, Lee JGM, Davies ET, Harvey AP. . Biotechnology Progress 2017, 33(3), 563-579.
    • Outram V, Lalander C-A, Lee JGM, Davis ET, Harvey AP. . Bioresource Technology 2016, 220, 590–600.
    • Coward T, Lee JGM, Caldwell GS. . Journal of Applied Phycology 2015, 27(2), 733-742.
    • Jammoal Y, Lee JGM. . Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2015, 104, 638-646.
    • Coward T, Lee JGM, Caldwell GS. . Biomass and Bioenergy 2014, 67, 354-362.
    • Afolabi EA, Lee JGM. . Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows 2014, 6(2), 133-149.
    • Velasquez-Orta SB, Lee JGM, Harvey A. . Biochemical Engineering Journal 2013, 76, 83-89.
    • Coward T, Lee JGM, Caldwell GS. . Algal Research 2013, 2(2), 135-144.
    • Porwal J, Bangwal D, Garg MO, Kaul S, Harvey AP, Lee JGM, Kasim FH, Eterigho EJ. . Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 2012, 71(12), 822-828.
    • Velasquez Orta SB, Lee JGM, Harvey A. . Fuel 2012, 94, 544-550.
    • Eterigho EJ, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. . Bioresource Technology 2011, 102(10), 6313-6316.
    • Bailes PJ, Lee JGM, Parsons AR. . Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2000, 78(3), 499-505.

  • Book Chapter

    • Joel AS, Oko E, Wang M, Ramshaw C, Lee JGM, Wu K, Kim D, Shah N, Ma L, Pourkashanian M. . In: The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies, and Challenges. CRC Press, 2017, pp.457-478.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Papadopoulos A, Seferlis P, Michailidis N, Stergioudi F, Tsivintzelis I, Papadokonstantakis S, Spoelstra S, Gross K, Schulz R, Dimitriadis G, Intzes K, Kougias I, Ntrenogianni K, Gottfroh A, Jouenne S, Llosa C, Lee J, Hendry J, Adjiman C, Jackson G, Galindo A, Haslam A, Johnson R, Addison R, Raisbeck J, Tsipa F, Hall J, Abdollahi A, Horton R. . In: 17th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-17). 2024, Calgary, Canada.
    • Hendry J, Lee J. . In: 16th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. 2022, Lyon, France: GHGT.
    • Muhsin WAS, Zhang J, Lee J. . In: 19th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2016). 2016, Prague: Italian Association of Chemical Engineering.
    • Velasquez-Orta SB, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. . In: 5th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts. 2015, San Diego, USA.
    • Velasquez-Orta SB, Harvey AP, Lee J. . In: European Process Intensification Conference. 2011, Manchester, UK: AIChE.

  • Note

    • Alkarawi MAS, Caldwell GS, Lee JGM. . Algal Research 2022, 61, 102558.

  • Review

    • Caldwell GS, In-na P, Hart R, Sharp E, Stefanova A, Pickersgill M, Walker M, Perry J, Lee JGM. . Energies 2021, 14(9), 2566.