Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Head of CEAM Postgraduate Research Committee
2. Organiser (with David Reay) of the international Process Intensification Network ("PIN")
3. Member of Faculty Appointments Board
4. Steering group of University Research Centre in Catalysis and Intensified Processing
5. Stage 2 Tutor 

Qualifications

1990-1994: MEng Chemical Engineering (1st), University of Cambridge

1994-1998: PhD "Oxidative Storage and Reductive release of Sulphur Compounds on Catalytic Converters", University of Edinrburgh

Honours and Awards

• 2011: Chair of European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC 3) 
• 2008: IChemE Brennan Medal (for "Process Intensification" textbook)
• 2005 - 2008: Exxon Mobil Teaching Fellow
• 2002: IChemE Junior Moulton Medal 

 Funded Research Projects:

1. RenewX, EU, 2013 - : £311k
2. Cleaning Land for Wealth, EPSRC, 2013 -  : £403k
3. Optitherm: Optimisation Waste Heat Recovery, EPSRC, 2009-: £180k
4. Designer Catalysts for Biodiesel Production, EPSRC, 2008-2012: £91k
5. Direct Production of Biodiesel from Non-edible Oilseeds, UKIERI, 2009-2011: £105k
6. Water-tolerant Extraction of Algal Biofuels, Carbon Trust, 2010-2011: £340k
7. Adaptive processing of Natural Feedstocks, EPSRC, 2008-2010: £229k
8. Project Pulse, TSB, 2010: £37k
9. Evolvable Process Design, EPSRC, 2008-2011: £329k
10. Bioproduction, EU, 2006-2011: £180k
11. Yoghurt Processing, FPKTN, 2009: £4k
12. ABC, DEFRA, 2009 - 2011: £75k

Research Students:

1. Victoria Outram "Intensification of Biobutanol Production", 2012 -
2. Ahmad Mustaffar "Solar Process Heat", 2012 -
3. Malik Musthofa "Catalytic CRacking of Vegetable Oils", 2012 -
4. Auwal Aliyu "Catalytic Cracking of Algae", PTDF, 2012-
5. Kamoru Salam "Reactive Extraction of Algae", PTDF, 2011-
6. Richard Abernethy "Crystallization in Mesoscale OBRs", EPSRC, 2011-
7. Matthew Abbot "OBRs as Bioreactors", EPSRC, 2011-
8. Tri Handayani "Use of Organic Rankine Cycles with Low-grade Waste Heat", EPSRC, 2011-
9. Richard Law "Optimising Waste Heat Usage in the Chemical Industries" EPSRC, 2010-
10. Fatimah Mohd Rasdi "Rapid Process Screening using Mesoscale OBRs" Malaysian Rubber Board, 2010-
11. Valentine Eze "Screening Heterogeneous Catalysts using Mesoscale OBRs", PTDF, 2010-
12. Nasratun Masngut "Intensification of Biobutanol production using OBRs" Malay. Govt., 2009-
13. Joseph Ikwebe "SSF Bioethanol Production using OBRs", PTDF, 2008-

See http://pig.ncl.ac.uk 

Completed

1. 2012 Farizul Kasim, Reactive Extraction of Biodiesel from Jatropha"
2. 2012 Elizabeth Eterigho, Development of Vegetable Oil Cracking Catalysts
3. 2012 Hafizuddin Wan Yusof, Ion Exchange Resins as Catalysts for Biodiesel Production
4. 2011 Claudia Troger, Bioreactions in OBRs
5. 2010 Rabitah Zakaria, Reactive Extraction of Oilseeds
6. 2008 Clare MacLeod, Metal Oxide Catalysts for Biodiesel Production  

Projects

• WEAB - Water-tolerant Extraction of Algal Biofuels
  Project Leader(s): Dr Adam Harvey
  Keywords: Biofuel; algae; process Intensification; reactive extraction; catalytic cracking; supercritical extraction

1. Transfer Processes 1 (Heat Transfer)
2. Transfer Processes 2 (Heat Transfer)
3. Separation Processes (Drying)
4. Process Intensification
5. Design Project
6. MEng Research Projects 

• Abbott MSR, Harvey AP, Perez GV, Theodorou MK. Biological processing in oscillatory baffled reactors: operation, advantages and potential. Interface Focus 2013, 3(1), 20120036.
• Velasquez-Orta SB, Lee JGM, Harvey A. Evaluation of FAME production from wet marine and freshwater microalgae by in situ transesterification. Biochemical Engineering Journal 2013, 76, 83-89.
• Boodhoo KVK, Harvey A, ed. Process Intensification Technologies for Green Chemistry: Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Chemical Processing. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Velasquez Orta SB, Lee JGM, Harvey A. Alkaline in situ transesterification of Chlorella vulgaris. Fuel 2012, 94, 544-550.
• Phan AN, Harvey AP. Characterisation of mesoscale oscillatory helical baffled reactor-Experimental approach. Chemical Engineering Journal 2012, 180(2012), 229-236.
• Zakaria R, Harvey AP. Direct production of biodiesel from rapeseed by reactive extraction/in situ transesterification. Fuel Processing Technology 2012, 102, 53-60.
• Solano JP, Herrero R, Espin S, Phan AN, Harvey AP. Numerical study of the flow pattern and heat transfer enhancement in oscillatory baffled reactors with helical coil inserts. In: 3rd European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC). 2012, Manchester, UK: Elsevier Ltd.
• Porwal J, Bangwal D, Garg MO, Kaul S, Harvey AP, Lee JGM, Kasim FH, Eterigho EJ. Reactive-extraction of pongamia seeds for biodiesel production. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 2012, 71(12), 822-828.
• Rattanaphra D, Harvey AP, Thanapimmetha A, Srinophakun P. Simultaneous transesterification and esterification for biodiesel production with and without a sulphated zirconia catalyst. Fuel 2012, 97, 467-475.
• Velasquez-Orta SB, Harvey AP, Lee J. Biodiesel production from nannochloropsis occulata by in situ transesterification. In: European Process Intensification Conference. 2011, Manchester, UK: AIChE.
• Phan AN, Harvey A, Lavender J. Characterisation of fluid mixing in novel designs of mesoscale oscillatory baffled reactors operating at low flow rates (0.3-0.6 ml/min). Chemical Engineering and Processing 2011, 50(3), 254-263.
• Phan AN, Harvey AP, Rawcliffe M. Continuous screening of base-catalysed biodiesel production using New designs of mesoscale oscillatory baffled reactors. Fuel Processing Technology 2011, 92(8), 1560-1567.
• Phan AN, Harvey AP. Effect of geometrical parameters on fluid mixing in novel mesoscale oscillatory helical baffled designs. Chemical Engineering Journal 2011, 169(1-3), 339-347.
• Herrero R, Solano JP, Harvey AP, Phan AN. Flow field and heat transfer characteristics in oscillatory flow reactors with helical coil inserts. In: European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC). 2011, Manchester, UK.
• Kasim FH, Harvey AP. Influence of various parameters on reactive extraction of Jatropha curcas L. for biodiesel production. Chemical Engineering Journal 2011, 171(3), 1373-1378.
• Rattanaphra D, Harvey AP, Thanapimmetha A, Srinophakun P. Kinetic of myristic acid esterification with methanol in the presence of triglycerides over sulfated zirconia. Renewable Energy 2011, 36(10), 2679-2686.
• Phan AN, Harvey AP. Novel mesoscale oscillatory baffled reactors- Development and characterisation. In: European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC). 2011, Manchester, UK.
• Eterigho EJ, Lee JGM, Harvey AP. Triglyceride cracking for biofuel production using a directly synthesised sulphated zirconia catalyst. Bioresource Technology 2011, 102(10), 6313-6316.
• Harvey AP, Kasim FH, Zakaria R. Biodiesel production by in situ transesterification – a review. Biofuels 2010, 1(2), 355-365.
• Harvey AP, Ren Y, Zakaria R. Biorefining Based on Biodiesel Production: Chemical and Physical Characterisation of Reactively Extracted Rapeseed. Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy 2010, 4(1), 79 - 86.
• Phan AN, Harvey A. Development and evaluation of novel designs of continuous mesoscale oscillatory baffled reactors. Chemical Engineering Journal 2010, 159(1-3), 212-219.
• Harvey AP, Masngut N, Ikwebe J. Potential uses of Oscillatory Baffled Reactors for Biofuel Production. Biofuels 2010, 1(4), 605-619.
• Harvey AP, Rattanaphra D, Srinophakun P. Simultaneous Conversion of Triglyceride/Free Fatty Acid Mixtures into Biodiesel using Sulfated Zirconia. Topics in Catalysis 2010, 53(11-12), 773-782.
• Harvey AP, Troeger CN. The Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates using an Oscillatory Baffled Bioreactor. Chemical Product and Process Modeling 2009, 4(5), article 5.
• MacLeod CS, Harvey AP, Lee AF, Wilson K. Evaluation of the activity and stability of alkali-doped metal oxide catalysts for application to an intensified method of biodiesel production. In: Chemical Engineering Journal: Process Intensification and Innovation Process Conference. 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand: Elsevier BV.
• Reay DA, Ramshaw C, Harvey AP. Process intensification: engineering for efficiency, sustainability and flexibility. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008.
• Harvey AP, Lee JGM, Khurana R. Reactive Extraction of Jatropha. In: 4th International Biofuels Conference. 2007, Delhi, India.
• Harvey AP, Lee JGM, Azizan MT, Ryder M. Reactive Extraction of Biodiesel. In: Process Intensification and Innovation (PI2). 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand: Process Intensification Network.
• Reis N, Harvey AP, Mackley MR, Vicente AA, Teixeira JA. Fluid mechanics and design aspects of a novel oscillatory flow screening mesoreactor. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2005, 83(4 A), 357-371.
• Bangert U, Gutierrez-Sosa A, Harvey A, Jones R, Fall CJ, Blumenau A, Briddon R. Electron energy loss spectroscopy of extended defects. In: Institute of Physics Conference Series: Proceedings of the Institute of Physics Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference. 2004, Oxford, UK: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
• Hult J, Meier U, Meier W, Harvey AP, Kaminski CF. Experimental Analysis of Local Flame Extinction in a Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flame by High Repetition 2D Laser Techniques and Multi-Scalar Measurements. In: International Combustion Symposium. 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Harvey AP, Skelton RL. What’s in your tank?. The Chemical Engineer 2004, (May).
• Ni X, Mackley MR, Harvey AP, Stonestreet P, Baird MHI, Rao NVR. Mixing through oscillations and pulsations - A guide to achieving process enhancements in the chemical and process industries. Chemical Engineering Research & Design 2003, 81(A3), 373-383.
• Harvey AP, Mackley MR, Seliger T. Process intensification of biodiesel production using a continuous oscillatory flow reactor. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 2003, 78(2-3), 338-341.
• Stonestreet P, Harvey AP. A mixing-based design methodology for continuous oscillatory flow reactors. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2002, 80(1), 31-44.
• Harvey AP, Stonestreet P. A Case Study of the Process Intensification of a Batch Saponification Plant. In: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineers. 2001, Melbourne, Australia.
• Harvey AP, Mackley MR, Stonestreet P. Operation and Optimization of an Oscillatory Flow Continuous Reactor. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2001, 40(23), 5371-5377.
• Harvey AP, Stonestreet P. Oscillatory Flow: a Technology Ready to Deliver. The Chemical Engineer 2001, 720, 41.