Professor Neil Hewitt
Research Director – Architecture, Built Environment & Planning
- School/Department
- Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment
- Research Institute
- Built Environment Research Institute
- Campus
- Jordanstown campus
- Location
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Room 26B16
Shore Road
Newtownabbey
Co. Antrim
BT37 0QB
- Telephone
- +44 28 9036 8566
- nj.hewitt@ulster.ac.uk
Neil J Hewitt was appointed Professor of Energy in 2008 and is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies from 2008 until present. He is a Chartered Physicist and Chartered Engineer and is a member of the Institute of Physics, Institute of Refrigeration and the Energy Institute.
Professor Hewitt has initiated and worked on numerous significant European and UK Research Council funded research projects that have engaged academia, public and private bodies.
Professor Hewitt is an acknowledged expert in the field of heat pumps, both in their development and in their end-use, especially with energy storage in the emerging sector of demand side management. He has over 100 publications and is a regular invited conference speaker both nationally and abroad.
Professor Hewitt, in addition to membership of a number of editorial boards, is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Energy and is a UK representative of the International Institute of Refrigeration Commission B2 Refrigerating Machinery
Research publications
Showing 1 to 10 of 85 publications
To view all publications please visit Ulster University Institutional Repository (UIR)
- Observed site obstacle impacts on the energy performance of a large scale urban wind turbine using an electrical energy roseEnergy for Sustainable DevelopmentDate: (2018)
- Integration of the calcium carbonate looping process into an existing pulverized coal-fired power plant for CO2 capture: techno-economic and environmental evaluationApplied EnergyDate: (2018)
- Techno-economic and Environmental Analysis of Calcium Carbonate Looping for CO2 Capture from a Pulverised Coal-Fired Power PlantEnergy ProcediaDate: (2018)
- Dynamic programming for optimal operation of a biofuel micro CHP-HES systemApplied EnergyDate: (2017)
- The role of Facebook and Twitter as organisational communication platforms in relation to flood events in Northern IrelandJournal of Flood Risk ManagementDate: (2017)
- The near Zero Energy Building standard and the Passivhaus standard – a case studyPassive and Low Energy ArchitectureDate: (2017)
- Summer performance of certified passive houses In A Temperate Maritime ClimatePassive and Low Energy ArchitectureDate: (2017)
- Techno – economic study of compressed air energy storage systems for the grid integration of wind powerInternational Journal of Energy ResearchDate: (2017)
- Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of an Installed Multiunit Seasonal Thermal Energy StoreJournal of Energy and Power Engineering, USADate: (2017)
- Techno-economic modelling of large scale compressed air energy storage systemsEnergy ProcediaDate: (2017)