Ian Fells

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Ian Fells CBE, PhD, FREng, FRSC, FInstE, FIChemE, FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and former chairman of the "New and Renewable Energy Centre" at Blyth, Northumberland, England.

Education and career

Fells was educated at King Edward VII School, Broomhill, Sheffield, then carried out national service in the British army, before studying at Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained an M.A. then in 1958 a Ph.D. entitled "The kinetics of the hydrolysis of the chlorinated methanes".[1] After lecturing in Chemical Engineering and Fuel Technology at the University of Sheffield he was appointed Reader in Fuel Science at King's College of University of Durham in 1962. In 1963 this college became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and he was on the staff of the Chemical Engineering Department.[2] He has been Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University since 1975 and has published some 200 papers on a varied range of topics, including:

Honours

Fells was elected Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering in 1979 and was President of The Institute of Energy (now the Energy Institute) for 1978-79. In 1993 he received the Michael Faraday medal and prize from the Royal Society, and was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996. He was awarded the Melchett Medal of the Energy Institute in 1999 and the John Collier Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the same year. He was awarded a CBE in June 2000.[3] In the same year he presented the Higginson Lecture.[4]

Other activities

Fells has made over 500 television and radio programmes, including the TV popular science series Take Nobody's Word For It with Carol Vorderman, and appeared as guest expert on The Great Egg Race in 1985 .[5]

He has been science adviser to the World Energy Council and special adviser to select committees of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons as well as serving on several Cabinet and Research Council committees. He was chairman of the UK-based National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec)[6] and is an energy adviser to the European Union and European Parliament, has advised a number of Foreign Governments on energy policy and is a consultant to various multi-national companies.

His wife is Hazel, a mathematician, and they have four sons, all engineers:[7] Alistair, Crispin, Jonathan, and Nicholas.[3]

Televised comments on Fukushima I nuclear accidents

In a March 14 broadcast on BBC, Fells was interviewed along with Chris Busby and he stated that "It would appear..that the..primary containment..has not been breached" and characterized the accident as "similar to Three Mile Island..1997..with...no radiation leaks" and went on to say, "The thing that worries me most is not the radiation release but the lack of electricity."[8]

References

  1. ↑ Cambridge University Newton Library catalogue
  2. ↑ Underneath the Arches Spring 2008 The Fells Swoop (on Newcastle)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fells Associates Consultancy Website
  4. ↑ http://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/ecs_events/higginson/lig_lect_speaker_info/
  5. ↑ BBC News 16 June 2000 Scientists honoured across the UK
  6. ↑ IAEA: NUCLEAR POWER Current, Future Prospect and The Agency's Activities 1November2004
  7. ↑ UK Offshore Wind 2006 Conference Programme
  8. ↑ "Professor Busby gives his assessment of radiation from Fukushima nuclear reactor". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-09-11. 

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