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
• Guest Editor for Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (Special Issue: Proceedings of the 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference)
• 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

• 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:

• 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 (Intro. to Process Safety)
• CME2030: Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
• CME3039: Plant Design (Project Supervisor)
• CME8128: MEng Research Projects (Project Supervisor)

• Alamri A, McDonough J, Zivkovic Z. Fluidisation behaviour and wall effects of cohesive hydrotalcite powder in a micro-fluidised bed. Powder Technology 2023, 415, 118192.
• 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 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.
• McDonough JR. Introduction to special issue on Proceedings of the 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2021, 25, 100995.
• 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 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, 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 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. 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, 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, 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.
• 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, Law R, Reay DA, Zivkovic V. Intensified carbon capture using swirling fluidized beds. In: ChemEngDay 2019. 2019, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: IChemE.
• 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, Oates MF, Law R, Harvey AP. Micromixing in oscillatory baffled flows. Chemical Engineering Journal 2019, 361, 508-518.
• 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. Flow regime mapping of small-scale gas-solid fluidized beds. In: 6th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF). 2018, Atlanta, USA: MNF.
• 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. Intensified Carbon Capture using Adsorption: Heat Transfer Challenges and Potential Solutions. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2018, 8, 17-30.
• 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, 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.
• 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, 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, 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.
• 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.