Staff Profile

Education

• PhD Chemical Engineering, Newcastle University, 2013-2018
• MEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering, Newcastle University, 2009-2013

Professional Memberships

• Associate Member of IChemE

Esteem Indicators

• Journal Reviewer for Chemical Engineering Journal, Chemical Engineering Science, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, and others
• Selected as one of the Outstanding Review Editors for 2022 in Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (2023)
• Guest Editor for Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (Special Issue: Proceedings of the 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference) (2020)
• Invited Speaker, Imperial College London (Oct 2019)
• Invited Plenary Lecture, UK Heat Transfer Conference (Nottingham, Sep 2019)
• Associate Consultant for David Reay and Associates (http://www.drassociates.co.uk/)
• National SET Award winner for best chemical engineering student, sponsored by AWE (2013)
• MEng Top Student Award (2013)
• William Benedict Coleman Scholarship recipient (2010)

Links:

• Google Scholar
• Researchgate
• Linkedin

Research Interests:

• 3D printing/additive manufacturing
• Reaction engineering
• Reactor design
• Flow chemistry
• Fluid mechanics
• Carbon capture
• Fluidization & TORBED

Research Funding

• 2023, Sustainable Sludge Valorisation Technology for Closed-Loop Resource Recovery, EPSRC, £715k, Co-I
• 2022, FunPrint: Recipes for Functional high-thermal conductivity 3D Printable resins, Royal Society, £20k, PI
• 2022, Scalable continuous manufacturing for sustainable chemical production, Carbon Trust, ~£1.3M, Co-I
• 2020, Screening of CO2 Sequestration Minerals, Torftech, ~£4k, PI

PhD Supervision:

• Hadi Almusawa (2nd) "Removing CO2 from Gas Streams Using Non-Thermal Plasma Technologies" 2023-
• Shenggeng Sun (2nd) "Novel Designs of Non-thermal Plasma Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) Reactors for CO2 Conversion" 2023-
• Peter Asiedu-Boateng (Visiting Student) "Calcium oxide-copper oxide-cement sorbents for CO2 capture" 2023
• Abdulbasit Mahdi (2nd) "Development of mini-TORBED technology for carbon capture" 2022-
• Henry Baker (2nd) "Scaled-down oscillatory flow-based heat sinks" 2021-
• Rouzbeh Jamei (2nd) "Mini-TORBED technology for carbon capture adsorbent screening" 2020-
• Richard McNeill (2nd) "3D printing new flow chemistry solutions for small molecule API synthesis" 2020-
• Awad Alamri (2nd) "Screening of CO2 adsorbents using micro-fluidized beds" 2020-

Completed

1. 2022 Guanqi Wang (2nd) "Characterisation and applications of Leidenfrost rings"

Undergraduate Teaching:

• CME1021: Thermodynamics (Module Leader)
• CME1025: Principles of Chemical Engineering (Basic Professional Skills and Intro. to Process Safety)
• CME2030: Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
• CME3039: Plant Design (Project Supervisor)
• CME8128: MEng Research Projects (Project Supervisor)

• Articles

  • Savage T, Basha N, McDonough J, Matar OK, del Rio Chanona EA. Multi-fidelity data-driven design and analysis of reactor and tube simulations. Computers & Chemical Engineering 2023, 179, 108410.
  • Alamri A, McDonough J, Zivkovic V. Fluidisation behaviour and wall effects of cohesive hydrotalcilte powder in a micro-fluidised bed. Powder Technology 2023, 415, 118192.
  • Basha N, Savage T, McDonough J, del Río Chanona EA, Matar OK. Discovery of mixing characteristics for enhancing coiled reactor performance through a Bayesian optimisation-CFD approach. Chemical Engineering Journal 2023, 473, 145217.
  • Wang G, McDonough J, Zivkovic V, Long T, Wang Z, Wang S. Terminal velocities of a deformed Leidenfrost liquid: Experiments and self-propulsion model. Physical Review Fluids 2022, 7(3), 033602.
  • Jamei R, McDonough JR, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. Rapid and intensified screening of a carbon capture adsorbent using a 3D-printed swirling fluidised bed. Chemical Engineering Journal 2022, 451(2), 138405.
  • Wang G, McDonough JR, Zivkovic V, Long T, Wang S. From Thermal Energy to Kinetic Energy: Droplet Motion Triggered by the Leidenfrost Effect. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2021, 8(2), 2001249.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Groszek D, Zivkovic V. Miniaturisation of the toroidal fluidization concept using 3D printing. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2020, 160, 129-140.
  • McDonough J. A perspective on the current and future roles of additive manufacturing in process engineering, with an emphasis on heat transfer. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2020, 19, 100594.
  • McDonough JR, Ahmed SMR, Phan AN, Harvey AP. The development of helical vortex pairs in oscillatory flows – A numerical and experimental study. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification 2019, 143, 107588.
  • McDonough JR, Oates MF, Law R, Harvey AP. Micromixing in oscillatory baffled flows. Chemical Engineering Journal 2019, 361, 508-518.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. Fluidization in small-scale gas-solid 3D-printed fluidized beds. Chemical Engineering Science 2019, 200, 294-309.
  • McDonough JR, Armett J, Law R, Harvey AP. Coil-in-Coil Reactor: Augmenting Plug Flow Performance by Combining Different Geometric Features Using 3D Printing. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2019, 58(47), 21363-21371.
  • McDonough JR, Phan AN, Harvey AP. The mesoscale oscillatory baffled reactor facilitates intensified kinetics screening when the solvent is removed. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification 2018, 129, 51-62.
  • McDonough JR, Murta S, Law R, Harvey AP. Oscillatory fluid motion unlocks plug flow operation in helical tube reactors at lower Reynolds numbers (Re ≤ 10). Chemical Engineering Journal 2018, 358, 643-657.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. Intensified Carbon Capture using Adsorption: Heat Transfer Challenges and Potential Solutions. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2018, 8, 17-30.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Kraemer J, Harvey AP. Effect of geometrical parameters on flow-switching frequencies in 3D printed fluidic oscillators containing different liquids. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2017, 117, 228-239.
  • McDonough JR, Ahmed SMR, Phan AN, Harvey AP. A study of the flow structures generated by oscillating flows in a helical baffled tube. Chemical Engineering Science 2017, 171, 160-178.
  • McDonough JR, Phan AN, Reay DA, Harvey AP. Passive isothermalisation of an exothermic reaction in flow using a novel "Heat Pipe Oscillatory Baffled Reactor (HPOBR)". Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification 2016, 110, 201-213.

• Authored Book

  • Jouhara H, Reay D, McGlen R, Kew P, McDonough J. Heat Pipes: Theory, Design and Applications. Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2023.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • McDonough J, Alamri A, Jamei R, Zivkovic V. Rapid screening of carbon capture materials using small-scale 3D-printed fluidised beds. In: 8th European Process Intensification Conference. 2023, Warsaw, Poland.
  • McNeil R, Russo Abegão F, McDonough J, Sobolewska A, Harvey A. 3D Printed flow reactors for the rapid scale-up of pharmaceutical production. In: 8th European Process Intensification Conference. 2023, Warsaw, Poland.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovoic V. Intensified carbon capture using swirling fluidized beds: hydrodynamics investigation and sorbent screening. In: The Second International Process Intensification Conference (IPIC2). 2019, Leuven, Belgium: IPIC2.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. Intensified carbon capture using swirling fluidized beds. In: ChemEngDay 2019. 2019, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: IChemE.
  • Zivkovic V, McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA. Fluidization in Small-Scale Gas-Solid 3D-Printed Fluidized Beds. In: Fluidization XVI. 2019, Guilin, China: AIChE.
  • McDonough JR. A perspective on the current and future roles of additive manufacturing in process engineering with an emphasis on heat transfer [Plenary Talk]. In: The 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference. 2019, University of Nottingham.
  • McDonough JR, Oates MF, Law R, Harvey AP. Micro-mixing performance of mesoscale oscillatory baffled reactors. In: 6th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF). 2018, Atlanta, USA: MNF.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. Flow regime mapping of small-scale gas-solid fluidized beds. In: 6th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF). 2018, Atlanta, USA: MNF.
  • McDonough JR, Law R, Harvey AP. Intensification of Transport Phenomena using 3D Printed Fluidic Oscillators [Keynote Lecture]. In: 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. 2017, Barcelona, Spain.

• Editorial

  • McDonough JR. Introduction to special issue on Proceedings of the 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2021, 25, 100995.

• Review

  • McDonough JR, Phan AN, Harvey AP. Rapid process development using oscillatory baffled mesoreactors - A state-of-the-art review. Chemical Engineering Journal 2015, 265, 110-121.