Malcolm Robins discovered Heat and Mass Transfer whilst a marine engineering student.

It set him on a career dedicated to thermal systems analysis, design and construction.

His work scope covers technical investigation and design fault analysis, mathematical modelling and expert witness services.

Registration as Chartered Engineer was predicated by major projects for Alcan Aluminium throughout the UK, and secondments to the Production Engineering Research Association.

He received the British Design Council’s Award for ‘Consistent High Standards of Project Management and Design Capability’ and is a Council Member of the Heat Transfer Society.

His first expert presentation was a 5 day deposition in 1992 to the United States Court of Ohio, for which he was commended by the Lead Attorneys on both sides of the action.

He has since completed many investigations into power and thermal energy systems, and a broad range of successful expert witness instructions.

Recent issues include:

Biomass Boilers, Biothermal Processing, Diesel Fuel Integrity, District Heating, Electrical Appliances, Environmental Planning, Heat Pumps, Hospital CHP Plant Hydraulics, Induction Furnace Explosion, Machine Noise, Metal Finishing, Solar Energy, Water Supply.

Fields of Expertise

A – B

Accident, Accumulator, Acoustic, ADR, AHU, Air Conditioning, Air Handling, Air Source, Alloy, Aluminium, Anaerobic, Anaerobic Digestion, arena aircon, ASHP, asphaltene, Baking Oven, Batch Fired Boiler, Beverage, Biodiesel, Biogas,Biomass Boiler, Biomass heating, Biothermal, Blown film extrusion, Boiler, Boiler failure, Boiler fire, Boiler plant, Burners.

C

Calcination, Calandria, Calendering, Calorifier, Capacity, Carbonated drinks, Casting, Cavitation, Central heating, Chemical, Chemical processing, Chiller, Chimney, CHP, Circuit, Climate Control, Cogeneration, Cold, Cold storage, Cold store, Combustion, Compressor, Conciliation, Condenser, Condensation, Conduction, Consistent, Control, Convection, Cooking appliances, Coolant, Cooler, Cooling, Cooling system, Cooling tower, Cooling tunnel, Copper, Corrosion, Cryogenic.

D – E

Dehumidifier, Design, Design fault, Diesel bug, Diesel engine, Diesel fuel, Digestate sterilization, Distance, District heating, Dockside, Draft, Dryer, Ductless air conditioners, Dyeing, Economy, Effluent, Effluent processing, Electric boilers, Electrical, Electrical installation, Electroplating, Extrusion, Emissions, Energy tariffs, Engine failure, Environment, Environmental, Erosion, Essential oils, Eutectic heat stores, Evaporation, Evaporator, Exhaust, Expert determination.

F – G

Factory, Failure analysis, FAME, Fans, Filtration, Fired, Fish Processing, Fishing, FIV, Flash steam, Flawed, Flow-induced vibration, Fluid Mechanics, Food processing, Foundry, Function, Fuel, FMEA Furnace Furniture, Funnel Fires, Gas Explosion, Gas engine, Geothermal, Ground source, GSHP.

H – K

Heat Exchanger, Heat Pump, Heating, Heating systems, Heating Tunnel, Heavy, Height, High, Hospital CHP, Hot Oil, HPHW, Humidity, HVACR, Hydraulic, Hydraulic Press, Hydrodynamic, HVO, Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, Ice Rink, Icemaking, Induction Heating, Invest, iron, kg, kW, kWh.

L- O

Layout, Length, Liquid, Locomotive, Long, Loss, Loud, LPHW, £, Machine, Manufacturing, Marine, Mass Transfer, Materials, Mathematical, Mediation, Metal Finishing, Metallurgy, Milling, Mineral, Misrepresentation, Modelling, Negotiation, Noise, Oil, Oxidation, Oxidised, Oxidiser.

P

Packaged plant, Paper sludge, Particulates, Peltier, PFI, Photovoltaic, Pipe, Pipeline drying, Pipework, Plant incident, Plastics, Polluted, Pollution, Power, Power supply, Pressure, Private Finance Initiative, Process plant, Process, Procure, Procurement, Product design, Production, Property, Psychrometry, Pump, Pump failure, Pumping, PV, Pyrolysis.

Q – S

Quantum Assessment, Radiation, Radiator, Reactor, Refrigeration, Renewable energy, Retirement villages, Rotary dryer, Rust, Rusting, Safety, Scrubber, $, Second opinion, Shell boilers, Sludge, Sludge treatment, slush, Soft drinks, Solar, Solar energy, Solid, Source, Sourcing,  Specification, Stainless, Steam, Steam engine, Steam explosion, Steam plant, Steel, Sticky diesel, Storage, Superheat, Surface finish, System.

T – W

Tank, Temperature, Testing, Test plant, Thermal design, Thermal equipment, Thermal fluid, Thermal insulation, Thermal oxidiser, Thermal plant, Thermodynamic, Thermo-electric, Tower block heating, Tube failure, Tunnel oven, Turbine, Underperformance, Vacuum furnace, Valve, Valving, Variation, Velocity, Ventilation, Vessel, Vibration, Warehouse, Water supply, White goods, Wide, Width, Wood waste.