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Staff Profile

Dr Richard Law

Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering

  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 7274
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  • Address: School of Engineering
    Merz Court
    Â鶹´«Ã½
    NE1 7RU
Background

Background

I am a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering at Â鶹´«Ã½. My areas of expertise are Process Intensification, Heat Transfer, Waste Heat Recovery Systems and Compact Heat Exchangers.

My Google Scholar profile can be found

 

Roles and Responsibilities

Degree Programme Director for BEng and MEng Chemical Engineering Degrees.

 

Education

PhD (Chemical Engineering), Â鶹´«Ã½.

MEng (1st Class Hons) Chemical Engineering, Â鶹´«Ã½.

 

Memberships

Associate Member of the IChemE


Esteem Indicators

Member of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee.

Organising Committee of the UK Heat Transfer Conference.

Associate Editor of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (Elsevier).

Reviewer for various high impact journals (Applied Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering Journal, amongst others).

Co-Author of Compact Heat Exchangers: Selection, Design and Operation (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016).

Research

Research Interests

Broadly, my research interests centre on intensified transport processes and energy systems, including both fundamental and applied research. This has led to various interdisciplinary research activities in recent years which span a vast range of areas and potential applications including intensified liquid-phase heat transfer, high-flux electronics cooling, development of 3D printed flow reactors, advanced heat pipe technologies, intensified solids handling processes, intensified carbon capture systems, industrial renewable energy integration, process industry waste heat recovery, waste water treatment and fluidic mixing enhancement.

Past and current industrial collaborators include TWI, HIETA, Aavid (Thermal Division of Boyd Corporation), Northumbrian Water, Sanofi, Almirall and Torftech


Research Projects

Currently funded projects: 

  • ICED: Intensified Cooling of Electronic Devices. EPSRC New Investigator Award. Approx £310k. [PI]
  • Advanced Loop Heat Pipe Technology. EPSRC Case Award with Aavid (Thermal Division of Boyd Corporation). Approx. £120k [PI]
  • Developing Large Scale MECs for Treatment of Sludge Return Liquor. EPSRC WIRE CDT Project with Northumbrian Water. Approx. £150k [Co-I]
  • SUEHEAT: Sustainable Integration of Waste and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Heat Upgrade in Industry. Horizon Europe/Innovate UK. Approx. EURO 4.9m, EURO 300k to Â鶹´«Ã½ [Â鶹´«Ã½ PI]
  • METzero: Bringing the water sector towards Net-Zero using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (METs). Approx. £1m [Co-I]

Past funded projects:

  • Development of new cooling technologies for high power electronics by adaptation and miniaturisation of novel concepts from process intensification and utilization of advanced manufacturing techniques such as selective laser melting (SLM). Â鶹´«Ã½ Institute for Sustainability. Approx. £10k. 2016 [PI]


Postgraduate Supervision

Current PhD students: 

  • Tayyab Mamtaz "Advanced Loop Heat Pipe Technology". 2020-present. [First Supervisor]
  • Sam Settle "Developing Large Scale MECs for Treatment of Sludge Return Liquor". 2020-present [Second Supervisor]
  • Henry Baker "Heat sink enhancement via oscillating flows". 2021-present [First Supervisor]
  • Leke Owoso "TBC". 2023-present [Second Supervisor.
Teaching

UG Teaching

CME1023: Transfer Processes 1 (Module Leader)

CME3032: Process Design and Economics

CME3039: Plant Design

CME8107: Process Intensification

CME8117: MEng Research Project

 

Teaching Projects

  • Development of a Physical Computing HE Toolbox for Engineering and Science Students, Internally funded via ULTSEC scheme, Approx. £10k. 2018-20 [Co-I]
Publications

  • Articles

    • Werner TC, Yan Y, Karayiannis T, Pickert V, Wrobel R, Law R. . Applied Thermal Engineering 2024, 236(Part A), 121371.
    • Hockaday J, Law R. . Energies 2024, 17(11), 2459.
    • Zhang Y, Ullah N, Law R, Reay D, Zivkovic V. . Resources Chemicals and Materials 2022, 1(1), 8-15.
    • Figueiredo L, Vieira F, Jamieson O, Reeder J, McLean T, Olsen J, Crapnell R, Whittingham M, Banks C, Law R, Gruber J, Peeters M. . Microchimica Acta 2022, 189, 73.
    • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Groszek D, Zivkovic V. . Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2020, 160, 129-140.
    • Wrobel R, Scholes B, Hussein A, Law R, Mustaffar A, Reay D. . Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2020, 19, 100629.
    • Crapnell R, Canfarotta F, Czulak J, Johnson R, Betlem K, Mecozzi F, Down M, Eersels K, van Grinsven B, Cleij T, Law R, Banks C, Peeters M. . ACS Sensors 2019, 4(10), 2838-2845.
    • McDonough JR, Oates MF, Law R, Harvey AP. . Chemical Engineering Journal 2019, 361, 508-518.
    • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. . Chemical Engineering Science 2019, 200, 294-309.
    • Livotov P, Chandra Sekaran AP, Mas'udah, Law R, Reay D, Sarsenova A, Sayyareh S. . Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2019, 9, 52-65.
    • McDonough JR, Armett J, Law R, Harvey AP. . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2019, 58(47), 21363-21371.
    • Ahmed SMR, Law R, Phan AN, Harvey AP. . Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification 2018, 132, 25-33.
    • McDonough JR, Murta S, Law R, Harvey AP. . Chemical Engineering Journal 2018, 358, 643-657.
    • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. . Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2018, 8, 17-30.
    • Law R, Reay DA, Mustaffar A, McGlen RJ, Underwood C, Ng B. . Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2018, 7, 125-130.
    • Law R, Ahmed S, Tang N, Phan AN, Harvey A. . Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification 2018, 125, 133-138.
    • Law R, Ramshaw C, Reay D. . Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2017, 1, 53-58.
    • McDonough JR, Law R, Kraemer J, Harvey AP. . Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2017, 117, 228-239.
    • Wang H, Mustaffar A, Phan A, Zivkovic V, Reay D, Law R, Boodhoo K. . Chemical Engineering and Processing 2017, 118, 78-107.
    • Law R, Harvey A, Reay D. . Applied Thermal Engineering 2016, 94, 590-599.
    • Sturm B, Meyers S, Zhang Y, Law R, Siquerios Valencia EJ, Bao H, Wang Y, Chen H. . Energy Conversion and Management 2015, 106, 1295–1308.
    • Siqueiros E, Wang YD, Sturm B, Law R, Li KG, Roskilly AP, Huang Y. . Energy Procedia 2014, 61, 1208-1212.
    • Law R, Harvey A, Reay D. . Applied Thermal Engineering 2013, 53(2), 188-196.

  • Authored Book

    • Hesselgreaves JE, Law R, Reay DA. . Oxford: Elsevier Inc, 2016.

  • Book Chapter

    • Livotov P, Sekaran APC, Law R, Mas'udah, Reay DA. . In: Chechurin, L; Collan, M, ed. Advances in Systematic Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp.27-44.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Russo Abegão F, Venn-Wycherley M, Vasilchenko A, Dyson M, O'Malley C, Law R, Adamson H, Joyce S, Norman R, Goss J, Devlin M. . In: ChemEngDay 2019. 2019, Edinburgh, UK.
    • Livotov P, Masiudah M, Sekaran C, Prasad A, Law R, Reay D. . In: International Conference on Engineering Design 2019. 2019, Delft, The Netherlands: Cambridge University Press.
    • Law R, Reay DA. . In: AIChE 2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety. 2018, Orlando, USA: AIChE.

  • Note

    • Szymanski P, Law R, McGlen RJ, Reay DA. . Entropy 2022, 24(2), 162.