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Magdalene College Cambridge

Mr Robert Skelton

Mr Robert L Skelton is a Life Fellow at Magdalene.

After graduating in Chemical Engineering Mr Skelton joined a north eastern engineering company working on a wide variety of projects before being appointed Manager of Process and Safety for the nuclear division, by then called Davy McKee Nuclear.

In 1990 he was appointed as College Lecturer and the Nuclear Energy Teaching Fellow in the Engineering and Chemical Engineering Departments. In 1997 he was appointed Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in Design in the Department of Chemical Engineering from which he retired in 2005.

Mr Skelton continues to lecture on nuclear and safety topics in both Engineering and Chemical Engineering and look after Masters’ projects, he also supervises for Magdalene and other Colleges. He is a member of both the Ely Cathedral and Ely Diocesan Environment Groups.

Research Interests

Development of Heat Pipes and Biofuels.

Qualifications

BSc(Hons), MA, CEng.

Career/Research Highlights

Mr Skelton was responsible for the design of the waste treatment plant for Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station.

Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE)
  • Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE)
  • Fellow of the Nuclear Institute (FnucI)
  • Membership Committee, The Nuclear Institute
  • Former Vice President, Institution of Nuclear Engineers

Key Publications

Mohd-Ghazi, T. and Skelton, R.L., 'The Application Of Pulsed Baffled Tube Photochemical Reactor (PBTPR) By Oscillatory Flow Mixing In Heterogeneous Photocatalysis'. Proceedings of AICHE 2002 Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana U.S.A 3-8 November 2002, New Developments in Multiphase reactors session.

Skelton, R.L., Bustnes, T.E. and Mackley, M.R., 'Development of the oscillatory flow based process for the production of biodiesel transport fuel'. 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 10-14 July 2005, Glasgow, UK.

Berrios M. and Skelton R. L., ‘Comparison of purification methods for biodiesel’. Chemical Engineering Journal 144(3) (2008), 459-465