Chris Tighe

Process Safety & Intensification (PSI Ψ) Group Leader @imperialcollege Sustainability🌍Resilient systems🧀Tinkering🔧Coffee☕️Music🎸Tweets are mine, all mine.

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📢We have a 2-year postdoc position available @ICL_Electrochem @ImperialChemEng in carbon nanotube synthesis from CO2 in high temperature systems. Application open until 26/03. Further details ➡️https://t.co/zshqQuW5Vf

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@GuillermoRein @BatteryFires Please be dautious of the trip hazard behind you

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Great industrial/academic collaboration with the superb René Bos and Dominik Unruh of Shell, and my equally excellent colleague and office neighbour Klaus Hellgardt.

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Our new paper in @Chem_Eng_J shows how to quickly assess whether stacking two catalyst beds with different activities can improve productivity of a wall cooled multi tubular fixed bed catalytic reactor, limited by thermal runaway. Free until 21st Jan https://t.co/U2xManCKqe

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Activity split 55% along reactor is optimal (or close to it) as a general rule, with the ratio of activities determined on a case-by-case basis. First author Jingxian Zhang (now MIT PhD) casually dropped the beautiful “phase diagrams” for thermal runaway into a meeting one day🤩

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@GuillermoRein We took the kids to Duxford air museum recently. In the airspace hangar you can fit a Vulcan, Concorde, and a Canberra into one photo. Sadly you can't take any photos from the Canberra.

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@titiricigroup Same... We're going to Ibiza, right?

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@MOFSoton @GroupHarding Please can we have a photo of @MOFSoton and @nunobimbo which illustrates the universal good that comes from Chemistry/Chem Eng collabs?

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@njbirse @MOFSoton 💯

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Safety and Loss Prevention playlist #6. Really enjoyed putting this together, and today's first lecture of term, after a year away from it. Becoming increasingly hard to find process safety related tracks without repeating myself https://t.co/sw79Q6GWkv

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@MOFSoton The Downward Spiral 😅 But really, 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields.

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@ejmaginn @ImperialChemEng @NDCBE If you hang around that spot today you might get to meet some genuine royalty! https://t.co/rFqmiqvhDw

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"I'm good, I promise" Substitute "academia" for "tennis" and prepare for a good laugh/cry at the parallels abound in this article. https://t.co/CdfEZb9Jl4

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Damköhler numbers compare the timescale of physical transport and flow of chemical species, with that of their reaction - the ultimate embodiment of chemical engineering! Fair to say I am loving this series of articles about dimensionless numbers in @NatureChemEng

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@yongliang_yan @MatCoRE_NCL Thanks Harry for being such an organised and gracious host... Loved it!

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@FuchterMatt @impchemistry @imperialcollege @OxfordChemistry @UniofOxford @SPC_Oxford Congratulations Matt wow that is big news!

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@PSFennell Job ad: We seek a highly motivated person to save the world. Initial 18 month appointment with potential extension to 24 (assuming the world has not ended)

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@GuillermoRein 🧨

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Shout out for the underappreciated Deborah number. Impossible to see mention of it without Beck playing in my head. https://t.co/4knZmWkFzB

[Nature Chemical Engineering @NatChemEng]

Our April 'By the Numbers' is now online!

Ian Wilson talks characteristic timescales and three 'prayers' of the chemical engineer: (1) may your reactions be 1st order; (2) may your mixtures be ideal; and (3) may the system be at steady state!

https://t.co/mbpuMzAR2B

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@GuillermoRein Bold claims to be sure, which can be easily put to the test with some heat and mass balances, maybe some thermodynamics (for the brave), and usually combined with the deft application of Excel (preferably the '97 edition, the one with the hidden flight sim)