Professor Stef Simons

Professor of Chemical Engineering

UCL Special Advisor on Kazakhstan (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global/advisers/kazakhstan)

Honorary Professor of the Kazakh National Technical University

Director, Carbon8 Systems Ltd. (www.c8s.co.uk)

Professor Simons graduated in 1986 from the University of Surrey with a first class honours degree in Chemical and Process Engineering. After two years employment as a Project Engineer with Neu Engineering Ltd., he joined UMIST as a research associate, where he conducted his PhD. He then rejoined the University of Surrey as a postdoctoral research fellow working on both high temperature defluidisation and granulation processes. Professor Simons has been at UCL since 1993, when he joined as a junior lecturer. He is Director of the Centre for CO2 Technology, a multidisciplinary research and training Centre focused on the development of innovative technologies for the reduction, removal and sequestration (long-term storage) of carbon dioxide. In addition, he is Director of Engineering of Carbon8 Systems Ltd. (www.c8s.co.uk), a multi-award winning company that is commercialising a revolutionary technique for treating waste streams using carbon dioxide, known as accelerated carbonation technology. Professor Simons is also Head of the Colloid & Surface Engineering (CSEG) Group, focusing on particulate interactions at the nano and micro length scales. Prof. Simons is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IChemE, is Chair of the IChemE Particle Technology Subject Group and sits on the IChemE Accreditation Committee. Since 1994 he has been working with universities in Kazakhstan and, more recently, in Russia, developing modern chemical engineering degree curricula.

Contact:

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 3805
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7383 2348
Email: stefaan.simons@ucl.ac.uk

Research Interests

Low carbon Technologies

Colloid and Surface Engineering

Process Tomography

agglomerate formation and growth
interparticle interactions at high temperatures
the behaviour of froths and foams
cosmic-ray muon tomography
conversion of wastes to energy
bespoke cement powders for safe disposal of nuclear wastes
low carbon, low energy chemical processing using molten salts
sequestration of CO₂ in new construction materials via accelerated carbonation

Selected Publications

Germana', S., Rossetti, D., Simons, S.J.R. & Bonsall, J., 2005, Experimental study to establish strength and behaviour of reactive liquid bridges with particles. Powders and Grains (2005) - Garcia- Rojo, Herrmann and McNamara (eds) Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 0 415 38348 X volume 1, pages 595-598
Simons, S. J. R. , Rossetti, D. Pagliai, P., Ward, R. and Fitzpatrick, S., 2005, The relationship between surface properties and binder performance in granulation, Chem. Eng. Sci., vol. 60, issue 14, pp.4055-4060.
Pagliai, P., Simons, S.J.R. and Rhodes, D., 2007, A Novel Experimental Study of Temperature Enhanced Cohesive Interparticle Forces, Powder Tech., 174, 71-74.
Li, X., Fernández Bertos, M., Hills, C.D., Carey, P.J. and Simons, S.J.R., 2007, Accelerated carbonation of municipal solid waste incineration fly ashes, Waste Management, 27, 9, 1200-1206.
Yassin, L., Lettieri, P., Simons, S.J.R. and Germana', A., 2007, Study of the Process Design and Flue Gas Treatment of an Industrial-Scale Energy-from-Waste Combustion Plant, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2007, 46, 2648-2656
Gilboy, W.B., Jenneson, P.M., Simons, S.J.R., Stanley, S.J. and Rhodes D., 2007, Muon radiography of large industrial structures, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 263, Issue 1, 317-319.