Summary
Dr Niall Mac Dowell leads the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group at Imperial College. He is a lecturer in Energy and Environmental Technology and Policy at Imperial College London, a member of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering and the Centre for Environmental Policy. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Niall is a member of the Technical Working Group on Industrial CCS of the Zero Emissions Platform and the Carbon Capture and Storage Association and is also a member of the Executive Committee of the IChemE's Energy Centre
Niall’s research interests are highly interdisciplinary and are focused on integrated multi-scale modelling of low carbon energy systems, with a particular focus on their dynamic interactions across varying length and time scales.
In addition to his research work, Niall conducts consultancy work for companies involved in power generation and has given advice to DECC, the IEA, the JRC and the ETI. He has travelled on behalf of the Foreign Office to China and Korea to promote low carbon power generation and was part of the Imperial College Delegation to the UN FCC COP18 event in Doha, Qatar and has been invited to provide written evidence to members of the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change.
Niall is also enthusiastic about public engagement, and is a regular contributor to the Sense About Science Energy Panel.
Niall is the Principal Investigator on the EPSRC project MESMERISE-CCS and Co-Investigator on the EPSRC projects Opening New Fuels for UK Generation and BECCS-IL in addition to the DECC CCS Innovation project CAPSULE, the EU FP7 project CO2QUEST.
Publications
Journals
Adams T, Mac Dowell N, 2016, Off-design point modelling of a 420 MW CCGT power plant integrated with an amine-based post-combustion CO2 capture and compression process, Applied Energy, Vol:178, ISSN:0306-2619, Pages:681-702
Alhajaj A, Mac Dowell N, Shah N, 2016, A techno-economic analysis of post-combustion CO2 capture and compression applied to a combined cycle gas turbine: Part I. A parametric study of the key technical performance indicators, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Vol:44, ISSN:1750-5836, Pages:26-41
Conference
Heuberger CF, Staffell I, Shah N, et al., Levelised Value of Technology - A Systemic Approach to Technology Valuation, 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE 26
Mechleri E, fennell P, Mac Dowell N, Flexible operation strategies for coal- and gas-CCS power stations under the UK and USA markets, 13th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) conference
Mechleri E, rivotti P, mac Dowell N, et al., Flexibility issues and controllability analysis of a post-combustion CO2 capture plant integrated with a natural gas power plant, 8th Trondheim Conference on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage (TCCS-8)