Professor Peter Styring
CEng, CChem, FIChemE, FRSC
Chemical Engineering with Chemistry Liaison
Chair of Departmental Safety Committee
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7571
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501
Chemical and Biological Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Research Interests
- Supported Homogeneous Catalysis
- Carbon Dioxide Capture & Utilisation
- Snowsports Engineering
- Continuous Flow Reactions
- Ionic Liquids
Biography
I obtained a First Class Honours BSc in Chemistry then a PhD in Liquid Crystal Chemistry from the University of Sheffield before moving to Hull University first as a post-doc, then as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. I held the Thorn EMI Lectureship for three years then the DERA Lectureship for four years. I made the transition to Chemical Engineering at Sheffield in 2000 as a Senior Lecturer, being awarded a Personal Chair in 2006. I was EPSRC Senior Media Fellow from 2006-2009 working with TV and radio stations on sports engineering.
My research interests are carbon dioxide capture & utilisation (CCU), supported catalysts for use in continuous flow processes and snowsports engineering. I won the 2006 Hanson Medal from the IChemE for a paper on a new self-waxing ski system. This has led to further collaborations with major ski companies.
In the field of CCU, I am Chair of the EPSRC Grand Challenge Network “CO2Chem” and co-author of a policy document on CCU which was published in 2011.
Key Papers
Comparative study of solvent properties for carbon dioxide absorption, Ortrud Aschenbrenner and Peter Styring, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1106-1113.
DOI: 10.1039/C002915G.
High CO2 solubility in ionic liquids and a tetraalkyl-ammonium-based poly(ionic liquid), Somsak Supasitmongkol and Peter Styring, Energy Environ. Sci., 2010, 3, 1961-1972. DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00293C
Measurement of vapour pressures of ionic liquids and other low vapour pressure solvents, Ortrud Aschenbrenner, Somsak Supasitmongkol, Marie Taylor and Peter Styring, Green Chem., 2009, 11, 1217-1221.
DOI: 10.1039/B904407H
Supported phosphine-free palladium catalysts for the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction in aqueous media, Nam T. S. Phan and Peter Styring, Green Chem., 2008, 10, 1055-1060. DOI: 10.1039/B805290E
Adsorption of carbon dioxide on hydrotalcite-like compounds of different compositions, Ortrud Aschenbrenner, Paul McGuire, Suzanne Alsamaq, Jiawei Wang, Somsak Supasitmongkol, Bushra Al-Duri, Peter Styring and Joseph Wood, ChERD, 2010,
doi:10.1016/j.cherd.2010.09.019
Teaching
- CPE211 Chemistry for Chemical Engineers
- CPE431 MEng Product Design Project
- CPE418 MEngResearch Methods
- CPE6002/3/8 MSc Research Methods