Professor Jon Gibbins
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture


+44 114 215 7234
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School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Jon is the Centre Director of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre and a member of the Centre's Coordination Group and is the Research Area Champion for Solvent Post-Combustion.
He has worked on coal and biomass gasification and combustion for over 30 years, at Foster Wheeler, Imperial College and the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Edinburgh and on carbon capture and storage (CCS) since 2002. He is currently Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and Director of the UK CCS Research Centre.
He is involved in a number of other academic, industrial and government initiatives on CCS in the UK and overseas, including the SaskPower CCS Global Consortium Advisory Committee.
He was also a member of SaskPower's Clean Coal Project Advisory Panel for their 400MW oxyfuel plant study in 2006-2007, has participated in reports and inquiries on CCS for a range of UK Government and other organisations and has contributed to a number of media pieces and other outreach activities on CCS.
He also takes an interest in broader energy system issues, as a member of the DECC Scientific Advisory Group from 2010 to 2014 and through participation in ongoing work on electricity system balancing, economics and regulation.
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
2 /CO2 atmospheres. European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, Vol. 2018(26thEUBCE) (pp 675-678)
Ignition and combustion of single particles of biomass under air and O2 capture. 24th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference 2007, PCC 2007, Vol. 1 (pp 95-113)
Site specific considerations for investments in new coal-fired power plants with CO
Reports
Preprints