Dr Kyriakos Kallis PhD, MSc, MEng

Dr Kyriakos X Kallis

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Kallis is a Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research is focused in the abatement of gaseous and particulate emissions through the advancement of after-treatment systems for automotive vehicles. His expertise lies in the field of thermochemical conversion and energy processes and reactors, biomass and fuel treatment, alternative forms of energy and fuels. His research interests are the exhaust emissions, the catalytic exhaust after-treatment systems and the thermochemical processes that involve energy production and chemicals.

Qualifications

  • PhD in biomass thermal conversion, University of Cranfield, UK, 2012
  • MSc in Environmental and Energy Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, 2006
  • MEng in Computer Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, 2005

Biography

Kyriakos X. Kallis qualified with an MEng degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the Control Systems Engineering Department of University of Sheffield in 2005. His interests led him to pursue and complete an MSc degree in Environmental and Energy Engineering, awarded from the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Sheffield in 2006. He continued his studies conducting experimental research into the thermochemical conversion of biomass to produce energy and chemicals, under professor John Oakey in the University of Cranfield, where he was awarded with a PhD degree in 2012. He worked in CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) for approximately three years in experimental projects that involved fuel treatment and catalytic hydrogen production. He is currently employed as a research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, where he is working on exhaust emissions and after-treatment systems for automotive vehicles.

Research

  • Exhaust gaseous and particulate emissions
  • Exhaust after-treatment systems for automotive vehicles
  • Thermochemical conversion and energy processes
  • Fuel treatment and alternative fuels

Publications

Journal Publications

Kyriakos X. Kallis, Giacomo A. Pellegrini Susini, John E. Oakey "A comparison between Miscanthus and bioethanol waste pellets and their performance in a downdraft gasifier", Journal of Applied Energy, 2013, 101, pp 333–340

Penelope Baltzopoulou, Kyriakos X. Kallis, George Karagiannakis, Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos. "Diesel fuel desulfurization via adsorption with the aid of activated carbon: Laboratory and pilot-scale studies", Energy and Fuels, 2015, 29(9), pp 5640-5648

Selected Conference Presentations

Kyriakos X. Kallis, John E. Oakey. "Gasification of biomass pellets in a pilot scale downdraft gasifier", Proceedings of the Bioten Conference on biomass, bioenergy and biofuels, CPL press, October 2011

Pellegrini Susini, G.A., Kallis, X.K., Petrolati, A., Oakey, J.E. "Air-CO2 gasification of biomass pellets in a pilot scale downdraft gasifier", Proceedings of the 19th EU BC&E – Berlin 2011, pp1589-1593

Kyriakos X. Kallis, Giacomo A. Pellegrini Susini, John E. Oakey. "A comparison between Miscanthus and bioethanol waste pellets and their performance in a downdraft gasifier", International Conference on Applied Energy ICAE – 16-18 May 2011 – Perugia, Italy

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