Professor Robert Critoph is a British academic in the field of

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

, working on heating and cooling technologies and

energy demand World energy supply and consumption refers to the global supply of energy resources and its consumption. The system of global energy supply consists of the energy development, refinement, and trade of energy. Energy supplies may exist in vario ...

. Critoph is Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Storage, Transformation and Upgrading of Thermal Energy (i-STUTE). I-STUTE is one of six End Use Energy Demand Centres.

Academic career

Critoph has worked on sorption

heat pump A heat pump is a device that uses electricity to transfer heat from a colder place to a warmer place. Specifically, the heat pump transfers thermal energy using a heat pump and refrigeration cycle, cooling the cool space and warming the warm s ...

and

refrigeration Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).IIR International Dictionary of ...

systems since 1982 and has published 89 papers, 2 book chapters, 5 patents and managed research contracts for industry, national government and EU totaling more than £10M. He has taught courses in

heat transfer Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, ...

thermodynamics Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, Work (thermodynamics), work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation. The behavior of these quantities is governed b ...

and

renewable energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...

. Industrial clients have included

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, and

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Selected publications

*Tamainot-Telto, Z., Metcalf, S.J., Critoph, R.E., Zhong, Y. & Thorpe, R. (2009) Carbon–ammonia pairs for adsorption refrigeration applications: ice making, air conditioning and heat pumping. International Journal of Refrigeration. Volume 32, Issue 6, pp. 1212-1229. *Zhong, Y., Critoph, R.E., Thorpe, R.N., Tamainot-Telto Z. and Aristov, Yu.I. (2006) Isothermal sorption characteristics of the BaCl2-NH3 pair in a vermiculite host matrix. Applied Thermal Engineering. Volume 27, pp. 2455-2462. *Wang, L.W., Tamainot-Telto, Z., Metcalf, S.J., Critoph, R.E. & Wang, R.Z. (2010) Anisotropic thermal conductivity and permeability of compacted expanded natural graphite. Volume 30, Issue 13, pp. 1805-1811.

References

External links

* https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111111257.htm * http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/september-heatwave-tips-hot-cold-11874401 * https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/can-conmans-latest-wheeze-really-4320818 {{DEFAULTSORT:Critoph, Robert Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British mechanical engineers