Professor Solomon Brown
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Professor of Process and Energy Systems
Research Centre Director: CDT Energy Storage
MEE Year in Industry Co-ordinator
+44 114 222 7597
Full contact details
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Room C04
Pam Liversidge Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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I graduated from King’s College London in 2007 with an MSci (Hons) in Mathematics. I completed a PhD from UCL in 2011 on the modelling of fluid flow and ductile fractures, in the course of which I was a co-recipient of the IChemE Frank Lees Medal for my collaborative work with the HSE on CO2 pipelines safety.
I took up a research associate followed by a Teaching Fellowship at UCL, during which I participated in a number of projects sponsored by the EC, EPSRC, UKCCSRC and Industry.
In December 2015 I joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the ±¬ÁÏTV as a Lecturer.
- Research interests
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My research focusses on mathematical modelling, process analysis and optimisation with a particular focus on clean energy processes, energy storage and energy systems. Key areas include:
- the development of agent-based models for energy systems and technology adoption
- techno-economic analysis of energy storage technologies
- scheduling and supply chain analysis
- Uncertainty quantification and Gaussian Processes
I welcome applications from prospective PhD students. If you are interested in projects in any of the above research areas, please contact me for further information (s.f.brown@sheffield.ac.uk)
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Fire Safety Journal, 162.
- . Results in Engineering, 110088-110088.
- . Energy Conversion and Management: X.
- . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 213, 153461-153461.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 143.
- . Energy Policy, 205, 114653-114653.
- . Energy and AI, 21, 100543-100543.
- . Energy, 326, 136304-136304.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 128.
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- . Journal of Power Sources, 631.
- . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 102, 430-443.
- . Energy Conversion and Management, 324.
- . Environmental Modelling & Software, 183.
- . Environmental Science & Policy, 162, 103886-103886.
- Tiered Multi-Objective Optimization of CO2 Transport for CCS.
- . Biotechnology Journal, 19(11).
- . Water Resources Research, 60(6).
- . Energy for Sustainable Development, 81.
- . Applied Energy, 369.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 87.
- . Applied Thermal Engineering, 242.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 81.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 590.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 588.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 580.
- . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27(13), 2499-2507.
- . Energy, 278.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 570.
- . Energy Policy, 175.
- . Energy Reports, 8, 10518-10532.
- . Computers & Chemical Engineering, 166.
- . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 168.
- . MRS Energy & Sustainability, 9(2), 129-141.
- . Energy, 250.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 50.
- . Energy, 241, 122842-122842.
- . Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 179, 424-434.
- . Energy Conversion and Management, 245.
- . Journal of Co2 Utilization, 52.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 111, 103449-103449.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 40.
- . iScience, 24(8), 102914-102914.
- . Applied Energy, 290.
- . Energy Reports, 7, 34-41.
- . Energy Reports, 7, 24-33.
- . Energy Reports, 7, 42-48.
- . Energy Reports, 7, 56-62.
- . Chemical Engineering Science, 238.
- . Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 6(4), 293-307.
- . Chemical Engineering Science, 230.
- . Energy, 216.
- . Advanced Sustainable Systems, 5(2).
- . Energy Conversion and Management, 226.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 474.
- . Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 6(12), 3400-3414.
- . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 131.
- . Energy Reports, 6(Supplement 5), 132-141.
- . JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 456.
- . Energy Conversion and Management, 205.
- . Journal of Energy Storage, 26.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 414, 557-568.
- . Applied Energy, 236, 961-972.
- . Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 101, 224-235.
- . Journal of Power Sources, 395, 369-378.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 73(2), 70-78.
- . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(20), 7054-7063.
- . Energy and Environmental Science, 11(5), 1062-1176.
- . Computers and Chemical Engineering, 110, 69-77.
- . Separation Science and Technology, 53(1), 22-35.
- . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56(37), 10491-10499.
- . Chemical Engineering Research and Design.
- . Energy, 119, 53-66.
- . Computers & Chemical Engineering, 95, 49-57.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 54, 662-681.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 54(2), 702-715.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.
- . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 46, 39-47.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 44, 88-93.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 43, 108-114.
- . Computers & Chemical Engineering, 82, 25-33.
- . Computers & Fluids, 120, 46-56.
- . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 54(34), 8587-8599.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 30, 9-18.
- . Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 92(1), 36-46.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 27, 221-238.
- . Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 3(2), 136-147.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 17, 349-356.
- . Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 115, 43-54.
- . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 19, 552-558.
- . Chemical Engineering Science, 74, 200-210.
- A dynamic boundary ductile-fracturepropagation model for CO
2 pipelines, 9(4), 265-276. - . International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.
- Techno-economic assessment of the manufacturing of NMC811 cathode active material. Journal of Power Sources.
- Acoustic Assessment of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Unravelling Temperature and Charge Contributions. Journal of Power Sources.
- Cost of Small-Scale Dispatchable Co2 Capture: Techno-Economic Comparison and Case Study Evaluation. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.
- Going, Going, Gone: Optimising the bidding strategy for an energy storage aggregator and its value in supporting community energy storage. Energy Reports.
- Linking CO2 capture and transportation: sensitivity analysis and dynamic study. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.
Book chapters
- , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 2125-2130). Elsevier
- In Kokossis AC, Georgiadis MC & Pistikopoulos E (Ed.), 33,[object Object], European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (pp. 1077-1082). Elsevier
- , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 2649-2654). Elsevier
- , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 3085-3090). Elsevier
- , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 3141-3146). Elsevier
- , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 1463-1468). Elsevier
- CRC Press
Conference proceedings
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- . IET Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2025(14) (pp 2440-2443)
- . 2025 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM) (pp 1-6), 27 May 2025 - 29 May 2025.
- . ECS Meeting Abstracts, Vol. MA2024-02(3). Honolulu, USA, 6 October 2024 - 6 October 2024.
- Techno-Economic Comparison of BECCS-to-X Pathways: Co-Production of Power and Low-carbon Fuels
- Decarbonizing the Lime & Cement Industry Using BECCS: a Mini-Review
- . 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, Vol. 53 (pp 631-636). Florence, Italy, 2 June 2024 - 2 June 2024.
- . Energy Storage Conference 2023 (ESC 2023). Glasgow, United Kingdom, 15 November 2023 - 15 November 2023.
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- (pp 1433-1438)
- (pp 2891-2896)
- The Work and Preliminary Results of the C4u Project on Advanced Carbon Capture for Steel Industries Integrated in Ccus Clusters
- . Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16). Lyon, France, 23 October 2022 - 23 October 2022.
- CO2 MEA Capture: A Gaussian Process-Based Global Sensitivity Analysis
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 8 (pp 34-40)
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 8(11) (pp 74-82). Sheffield, UK, 5 April 2022 - 5 April 2022.
- (pp 1399-1404)
- (pp 427-432)
- (pp 1957-1962)
- (pp 79-84)
- Value of aggregator-led community energy storage systems with degradation constraints. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 50
- Analysing the robustness of multi-stage bioseparations to measurement errors. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 50
- Compression system power requirements for various CO2 sources and transportation options. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 50
- Clean Electricity Generation from Sewage: a novel Ultra-Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology with integrated CCS. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 50
- Towards Automated HAZOPs. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 50
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 7(Supp_2) (pp 20-23). Virtual conference, 12 January 2021 - 12 January 2021.
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 7(Suppl 2) (pp 71-80). Virtual conference, 12 January 2021 - 12 January 2021.
- (pp 1453-1458)
- (pp 1439-1444)
- (pp 1459-1464)
- (pp 393-398)
- (pp 505-510)
- . Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Vol. 48 (pp 343-348). Virtual conference, 31 August 2020 - 31 August 2020.
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 6(Supplement 5) (pp 189-197). Southampton, UK, 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 6(Supplement 5) (pp 117-123). Southampton, U.K., 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 6(Supplement 5) (pp 63-69). Southampton, U.K., 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 6(Supplement 5) (pp 35-42). Southampton, U.K., 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
- . Energy Reports (pp 124-131). Southampton, U.K., 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
- . Energy Reports, Vol. 6(Supplement 5) (pp 53-62). Southampton, UK, 9 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
- (pp 157-162)
- (pp 283-288)
- . 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Part A, Vol. 46 (pp 775-780). Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 16 June 2019 - 16 June 2019.
- . Energy Procedia (pp 199-208). Sheffield, United Kingdom, 11 September 2018 - 11 September 2018.
- . Energy Procedia, Vol. 151 (pp 74-78). Sheffield, United Kingdom, 11 September 2018 - 11 September 2018.
- . Energy Procedia (pp 52-56). Sheffield, United Kingdom, 11 September 2018 - 11 September 2018.
- . Energy Procedia, Vol. 154 (pp 66-72)
- . Energy Procedia, Vol. 114 (pp 6942-6949). Lausanne, Switzerland, 14 November 2016 - 14 November 2016.
- . Energy Procedia, Vol. 114 (pp 6685-6697). Lausanne, Switzerland, 14 November 2016 - 14 November 2016.
- . Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 2 (pp 2439-2446). Catania, Italy, 20 June 2016 - 20 June 2016.
- . Proceeding of THMT-15. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium On Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer (pp 791-794), 15 September 2015 - 18 September 2015.
- Analytical modelling and validation of the expansion of a CO2 jet released from a ruptured pipeline. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium On Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer
- A coupled two-phase flow model for predicting the flashing of liquid CO2 during pipeline decompression. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 0 (pp 423-426)
- A model of the near-field expansion of CO2 jet released from a ruptured pipeline. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 0 (pp 795-798)
- (pp 265-270)
- . Energy Procedia, Vol. 63 (pp 2510-2529)
- . Energy Procedia, Vol. 63 (pp 2622-2629)
- Influence of line pressure and temperature on fracture propagation behaviour in CO2 pipelines. Rio Pipeline Conference and Exposition Technical Papers, Vol. 2011-September
- Co2 pipelines material and safety considerations. Institution of Chemical Engineers Symposium Series(155) (pp 423-429)
- From cradle to burial: High pressure phase equilibrium behaviour of CO2 during CCS. Conference Proceedings - 2009 AIChE Annual Meeting, 09AIChE
- CO2 PIPELINES MATERIAL AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS. HAZARDS XXI: PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION(155) (pp 423-429)
- . Systems and Control Transactions, Vol. 4 (pp 900-905), 6 July 2025 - 9 July 2025.
- . Systems and Control Transactions, Vol. 4 (pp 589-594), 6 July 2025 - 9 July 2025.
- . Systems and Control Transactions, Vol. 4 (pp 723-728), 6 July 2025 - 9 July 2025.
- . Systems and Control Transactions, Vol. 4 (pp 924-929), 6 July 2025 - 9 July 2025.
- . International Sustainable Energy Conference - Proceedings, Vol. 1
- Predicting the evolution of flammable gases during Li-ion battery thermal runaway using micro-kinetic modelling. 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Vol. 52 (pp 1075-1080). Athens, Greece, 18 June 2023 - 18 June 2023.
- Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) – power generation coupled with hydrogen production. 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Vol. 52. Athens, Greece, 18 June 2023 - 18 June 2023.
- Gaussian-Process based inference of electrolyte decomposition reaction networks in Li-ion battery failure. Computers and Chemical Engineering
- Blending Biomass Fuels for Next-Generation Power-Beccs Plants
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Preprints
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- Accelerating Residential Decarbonisation: How Stakeholder Decision-Making and Socio-Economic Dynamics Affect Multi-Decadal District Heating Network Expansion.
- Vacuum-Pressure Swing Adsorption of CO 2 for Flexible Power Generation.
- The Economic Impact of Location on a Solar Farm Co-Located with Energy Storage.
- Cost of Small-Scale Dispatchable Co2 Capture: Techno-Economic Comparison and Case Study Evaluation.
- Cost of Small-Scale Co2 Capture: Techno-Economic Comparison and Case Study Evaluation.
- Hydrogen Pipeline Infrastructure Design: Spatially-Aware Routing and a Multi-Stage Approach.
- Residential Energy Communities: Balancing Stakeholder Financial Interests, Heat Decarbonisation and Grid Limitations.
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