Professor Mike Hounslow
FREng., BE Hons, PhD, CEng, FIChemE
Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7565
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7566
email : m.j.hounslow@sheffield.ac.uk
Personal Assistant: Mrs Amanda Fidler
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7634
email : a.fidler@sheffield.ac.uk
The University of Sheffield
The Faculty of Engineering
Office D140
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 3JD
Research Interests
- Crystallisation
- Granulation
- Population Balance Modelling
Biography
As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engineering at the University of Sheffield Mike is responsible for the operation of all seven Engineering departments comprising more than 800 staff and 3000 students.
Mike is a chemical engineer with BE and PhD degrees from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
After completing the first of his degrees he worked for ICI Australia for four years in a variety of technical and management roles before taking up a lectureship at Adelaide and commencing his PhD.
In 1990 he moved to the University of Cambridge to take up a lectureship becoming a Fellow and then Dean of Selwyn College. In 1998 he moved to Sheffield and became Professor of Chemical Engineering. In 2000 he became Head of Department and in 2008 PVC.
The focus of his current research is the development of predictive, rate-based approaches to particle processing. While it is now common place to be able to predict how processes and products comprising fluids will behave, the prediction of particle behaviour is still in its infancy. His current projects make extensive use of population balance modelling, often coupled with various forms of CFD.
Key Papers
Hounslow, M. J.; Ryall, R. L.; Marshall, V. R., A discretized population balance for nucleation, growth, and aggregation. AlChE J. 1988, 34, (11), 1821-1832.
Hounslow, M. J.; Reynolds, G. K., Product engineering for crystal size distribution. AlChE J. 2006, 52, (7), 2507-2517.
Tan, H. S.; Salman, A. D.; Hounslow, M. J., Kinetics of fluidized bed melt granulation - ii: Modelling the net rate of growth. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2006, 61, (12), 3930-3941.
Reynolds, G.K., A.M. Nilpawar, A. D. Salman and M.J. Hounslow, Direct Measurement of Granular Temperature in a High Shear Granulator, Powder Technol., 182 (2), 211-217, 2008.
Teaching
At one time or another, Mike has taught almost the whole Chemical Engineering curriculum, now sadly, his face-to-face teaching is restricted to supervision of PhD students.