Mike Ackrill Award

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The Mike Ackrill Award is given annually to the person who gives the best presentation at an hts Forum. The criteria for the award are that the presentation

  • Contains information of significant value to a sector of the heat-transfer industry especially if of topical nature.
  • Contains information which may be counted towards Continuing Professional Development (CPD) rather than simply being an advert for the companies products or services.
  • Is clearly and logically presented.

The award winners hold the cup (shown on the right) for a year and receive an engraved tankard.

Mike Ackrill Cup

2008 Award Winner

The award went to Adam Slater of  Heatric for his talk on diffusion bonded heat exchangers.

Recent past winners

  • The 2007 award went to Luc-Stéphane Schroeder of Chromalox International for his talk on, "Impedance Heating Heating and Melting using TPC Technology."

  • The 2006 award went to Gerry Francis of Davy Process Technology for a talk he gave on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Stainless Steel Heat Exchangers.

  • The 2005 award went to Derek Jackson for a talk outlining Osborne Reynolds' major research interests whilst he was Professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester. The talk focused on Reynolds' pioneering contribution to subject of convective heat transfer.

  • The 2004 award went to David Butterworth for a talk on why some heat exchangers fail to operate to the design duty.

  • The 2003 award went to Robert Ashe and Richard Barker of Ashe Morris for their forum titled New Areas in Heat Transfer which described a method of controlling heat exchangers by varying the heat transfer area.

  • The 2002 award went to Colin Weil for his presentation on the guideline and recommendations arising from the joint industry study on tube failure in a shell-and-tube exchanger with high pressure in the tubes.

  • The 2001 award went to Hugh Goyder for his presentation "Flow-Induced Vibration and Noise" which he gave at the January Forum.  Hugh is a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University and an expert in noise and vibration.

  • The 2000 award to Richard Jibb for his presentation at the November 1999 Forum entitled "Reflux condensation - integrating heat transfer and separation". This described work done by Richard while working for his engineering doctorate under the joint industry/university EngD scheme. In this case the partnership was between UMIST and Cal Gavin. There is a full report on this in the December 99 Newsletter.

  • The 1999 award went to Simon Noble of Flexitallic Ltd for his presentation on the selection and design of gaskets for heat exchanger applications entitled "High Integrity Joint Sealing".

  • The 1998 award went to John McCutchen, the President of Yuba Heat Transfer who came over from the US in April 97 to give an informative and entertaining presentation entitled "Improve high pressure process heat exchangers by thermal transient analysis with fatigue evaluation".

  • The 1997 award went to Peter Jackson and Roy Godwin of Callidus Technologies for their presentation "Emission control by Callidus LE Series low NOx burners".

 

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