Dr Francesco Coletti
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering

Membership and affiliation

• Fellow of the Energy Institute
• One of two UK elected representatives (2014-present) of the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences (www.aihtc.org)
• Elected member (2014) and Secretary (2016-present) of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee (www.uknhtc.org)
• Elected Member (2017) of the Thermofulids group, IMEChE
• Senior Member (2010-present) of the American Institution of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Director (2019-present) and Vice Chair (2022-present) of AIChE Fuels and Petrochemical Division
• Associate Member, UK Institution of Chemical Engineers (AMIChemE)
• Italian Chartered Engineer (Jan 2006)

Keynotes, Panels and Invited Talks

• Chair of the Panel on AI in Heat Transfer to be held at the 17th International Heat Transfer Conference, 14-18 August, 2023 Cape Town, South Africa (https://ihtc17.org).
• Keynote lecture at the 14th UK Heat Transfer Conference: “Fouling - Is It Still the Major Unresolved Problem in Heat Transfer?”, 8th 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Chair of the Workshop on “Smart Heat Transfer Surfaces”, Virtual, 25 October 2022.
• Chair of the Workshop organised for the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMEChE) on “Fouling in Heat Exchangers”, 30 November 2021
• Panellist, Plant of the Future, AIChE Spring Meeting Virtual, 17-21 August 2020.
• Chair of the Topical Conference on Refining at the AIChE Spring Meeting for 2022 and 2023.
• Co-Chair of the Topical Conference on Refining at the AIChE Spring Meeting Virtual, 2020 and 2021.
• Invited talk at CERAweek (top annual Oil&Gas conference - https://ceraweek.com): “Innovation by design: Engineering heat transfer for refinery energy efficiency”, 6th Mar 2017, Houston, TX.
• Invited lecture at University of Surrey: “Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer in Chemical Engineering”, 8th 2016, Guilford, UK.
• Invited TEC (Technology, Entrepreneurship and Communication) talk: “Heat Exchanger Design Handbook: Past, Present and Future in the Digital Era” at the 1st Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, 9th 2015, New York, NY (USA).
• Invited talk at Workshop on Energy and Water Security: “Energy efficiency improvements by fouling mitigation in oil refineries”, 15th 2015, Doha, Qatar.
• Invited talk at Imperial College London: “Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Project: Inspire & Inform”, 15th 2014, London, UK.
• Invited talk at Institution of Chemical Engineers: “Energy efficient heat exchange and catalysis: the UNIHEAT project”, 19th 2014, London, UK.

Editorial Work

• Executive Editor, Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (2014- present)
• Editorial Board Member, Intrnational Journal of Thermofluids, Elsevier
• Co-editor with Geoffrey Hewitt, Crude Oil Fouling: Deposit Characterisation, Measurement and Modelling
• Guest Editor, Special Issue for Heat Transfer Engineering (Volume 41, 2020, Numbers 19–20, pages 1643–1644)  with the Selected Papers from the 15th UK Heat Transfer Conference
• Guest Editor with Lixin Cheng, Special Issue for the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer (Volume 28, 2021) on: Progress in Heat Transfer Enhancement Research 

Conference Organisation and Scientific Committes

• Lunched and chaired the Topical on Heat Exchangers at the AIChE Spring Meeting, now at the third edition and held every two years.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for the 17th International Heat Transfer Conference, to be held 14-18 August, 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa (https://ihtc17.org).
• Organised and chaired the National workshop on “Heat Transfer Research, Education and Practice in the UK”, Derby, UK, 25 April 2019.
• Member of the Organising Committee, 17th UK Heat Transfer Conference, 5-7 September 2020, University of Manchester and Virtually.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference, 10-15 August 2018 in Beijing, China.
• Co-chair, 15th UK Heat Transfer Conference, 4-5 September 2017, Brunel University London.
• Member of the Program Committee, Fuels and Petrochemicals Division, American Institution of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Spring Meeting, 2016 and 2017
• Member of the Organising Committee, UNIHEAT Second Annual Conference, 23 Oct 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Member of the Organising Committee and panel discussion moderator, UNIHEAT First Annual Conference: Emerging technologies for refinery energy efficiency, 12 Sep. 2013, Moscow, Russia.
• Technical Program Committee Member, 12th Conf. Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT16). 11-13 Jul. 2016, Malaga, Spain.