George Manos

Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering

Biography

Dr George Manos graduated from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1984. He worked as postgraduate research assistant at Technical University of Berlin on wood liquefaction and then moved to University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany for his PhD in catalytic reaction engineering which he obtained in 1989. Dr Manos worked as Production and Development Manager of Metal Deco Products in Vivechrom, member of the Akzo-Nobel group. He then moved to UK to work as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UMIST and Lecturer at South Bank University. Dr Manos joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL in 1998 and is currently a Associate Professor.

Teaching Summary 

CENG0005-Physical Chemistry, Year 1; CENG0012-Chemical Reaction Engineering 1, Year 2; CENG0034-Natural Gas Processing, MSc GMNR

Research Summary

Dr Manos's research activities are primarily in the area of Hydrocarbon Catalytic Reactions (Catalyst Deactivation by Coking , Polymer Recycling via Catalytic Cracking of Plastic Waste, Biomass Conversion) and their modelling as well as Statistical Mechanical Modelling of Adsorption.

Education

1989

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

1984

MEng Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Professional Affiliations  

• MIChemE – member of IChemE

Publications

• I. Muhammad, G. Manos (2022) Catalytic Copyrolysis of Heavy Oil with Polypropylene ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, to be published
• Al-Salem SM, Van Haute M, Karam HJ, Hakeem A, Meuldermans W, Patel J, Hafeez S, Manos G, Constantinou A (2022) Fuel Range Properties of Oil and Wax Obtained from Catalytic Pyrolysis of Linear Low-Density Polyethylene in a Fluidized Bed Reactor, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 61, 16383–16392
• Tsiotsias AI, Charisiou ND, Harkou E, Hafeez S, Manos G, Constantinou A, Hussien AGS, Dabbawala AA, Sebastian V, Hinder SJ, Baker MA, Polychronopoulou K, Goula MA (2022) Enhancing CO2 methanation over Ni catalysts supported on sol-gel derived Pr2O3-CeO2: An experimental and theoretical investigation, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 318, 121836
• Sanaa Hafeez, Sultan M. Al-Salem, Atul Bansode, Alberto Villa, Nikolaos Dimitratos, George Manos, Achilleas Constantinou (2022) Computational Investigation of Microreactor Configurations for Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid Decomposition Using a Pd/C Catalyst, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 61, 1655–1665
• Hafeez S, Harkou E, Spanou A, Al-Salem SM, Villa A, Dimitratos N, Manos G, Constantinou A, Review on recent progress and reactor set-ups for hydrogen production from formic acid decomposition, 26, 101120

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