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Details for Dr Michael Tierney
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Michael Tierney |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering |
| Department | Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(UMIST), Ph.D.(Birm.), C.Eng., M.I.Chem.E. |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Institution of Chemical Engineers Chartered Engineer Chartered Scientist |
| Keywords | Heat operated refrigeration Thermo-economics Heat utilisation heat and mass transfer Computational Fluid Dynamics (proprietary codes) |
| Areas of expertise | My current research areas are (1) adsorption chillers, including build of a solar chiller and development of calorimetric tests to assess performance of refrigerant-sorbent pairs (2) screening candate schemes for utilisation of heat/ waste heat, identifying the optimum scheme in terms of cost, thermodynamic efficiency, ecologcial impact, and user interaction. Before 2006, I was concerned with the use of CFD to optimise the performance of chemical and nuclear plant. |