Staff Profile
Dr Jonathan McDonough
Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
- Telephone: 0191 208 7303
- Address: School of Engineering,
1st Floor, Merz Court,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU
Background
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)
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Research
Research Interests:
- 3D printing/additive manufacturing
- Reaction engineering
- Reactor design
- Flow chemistry
- Fluid mechanics
- Carbon capture
- Fluidisation & TORBED
Research Funding
- 2024, Centre for Doctoral Training in Process Industries: Net Zero (PINZ), EPSRC, ~£12M, Co-I (Careers Lead)
- 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:
- Kyle McLean (2nd) "3D Heat Pipe Technology" 2025-
- Kudzaishe Chiwara (2nd) "3D-Printed Reactors for Shrinking Chemical Processes" 2025-
- Kyprianos Iakovou (2nd) "Reducing the carbon footprints of Sygenta processes via flow chemistry" 2025-
- Mir Zuhair Ali (1st) "Optimising Pulse-Jet Cleaning for Sustainable Energy: A CFD Approach to Emissions Control" 2024-
- 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-
- Abdulbasit Mahdi (2nd) "Development of mini-TORBED technology for carbon capture" 2022-
- Henry Baker (2nd) "Scaled-down oscillatory flow-based heat sinks" 2021-
Completed
- 2025 Richard McNeill (2nd) "3D printing new flow chemistry solutions for small molecule API synthesis"
- 2025 Rouzbeh Jamei (2nd) "Mini-TORBED technology for carbon capture adsorbent screening"
- 2024 Awad Alamri (2nd) "Screening of CO2 adsorbents using micro-fluidized beds"
- 2022 Guanqi Wang (2nd) "Characterisation and applications of Leidenfrost rings"
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching:
- CME1021: Thermodynamics (Module Leader)
- CME1028: Chemical Engineering Laboratory (Basic Professional Skills)
- CME1030: Principles of Chemical Engineering (Introduction to Process Safety)
- CME2030: Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
- CME3039: Plant Design (Project Supervisor)
- CME8128: MEng Research Projects (Project Supervisor)
Publications
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Articles
- Wang G, McDonough J, Zivkovic V, Abadie T, Long T, Wang S. Fast droplet mixing via a Leidenfrost reactor. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2026, 254, 127698.
- Asiedu-Boateng P, Asiedu NY, Patience G-S, McDonough JR, Zivkovic V. Hydrodynamics of limestone in gas-solid micro-fluidized beds. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2025, 219, 283-295.
- Asiedu-Boateng P, Asiedu NY, Patience GS, McDonough JR, Zivkovic V. Carbonation Deactivation of Limestone in a Micro-Fluidized Bed Reactor. Catalysts 2025, 15(8), 697.
- Savage T, Basha N, McDonough J, Krassowski J, Matar O, del Rio-Chanona EA. Machine learning-assisted discovery of flow reactor designs. Nature Chemical Engineering 2024, 1, 522–531.
- Jamei R, McDonough JR, Mobley PD, Tanthana J, Gupta V, Zivkovic V. Addressing small-scale temperature swing adsorption challenges using intensified fluidised bed technology for carbon capture process development. Chemical Engineering Journal 2024, 498, 155568.
- 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.
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Authored Book
- Jouhara H, Reay D, McGlen R, Kew P, McDonough J. Heat Pipes: Theory, Design and Applications. Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2023.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- McDonough J, McNeil R, Nguyen H, Krassowski J, Harvey A. Converting industrial chemistries from batch to continuous. In: 9th European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC 2025). 2025, Athens, Greece.
- 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.
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Editorials
- McDonough J. Put on Your 3D Glasses. The Chemical Engineer 2022, 970(April 2022).
- McDonough JR. Introduction to special issue on Proceedings of the 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2021, 25, 100995.
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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.