Dr. Les. Gornall
C.V.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 1st Class Hons BSc. Environmental Science (Ulster)1981
- D.Phil. (Ulster) 1990
WORK EXPERIENCE
1992 - Present : Practically Green (Environmental Services) Director
Environmental Engineering Consultancy with associated laboratory research,
light and heavy engineering facilities.
European Sales Representative for AJAX ® sour gas engines,
Manufacturer of biogas fuelled sour gas CHP units, anaerobic digestion
and biogas engineering specialist for municipal, agricultural and industrial
wastes.
Project Highlights:
- Goddards Green - Near London (Gatwick,), Commissioning sludge/cake
blending plant, 2 x 2000 cubic meter digesters SBR's, Thickening Plant
and Centrifuges for Siemens (Southern Water Contract).
- Tilbury near London (UK)- Commissioning new 3,000 cubic meter
Primary Digester + 3400 cubic meter Secondary digester and Centrifuges
for Siemens at the famous Anglian Water deep shaft works .
- Denmark - in consortium to design c. 0.5MW anaerobic digester
to depollute industrial and farm organics - Thermie award achieved , now
built and producing seven volumes of biogas per volume of digester per
day - possibly a world record!
- Israel - design and provision of biogas compression system for
Jerusalem Sewage works.
- India (Assessment of digestion and composting of sugar refinery
and farm waste for depollution and power generation),
- Banbury, England (Chemical identification of odour components
in biogas, chimney dispersion modelling and odour problem solution by combustion
in an Ajax sour gas engine - ETIS award.)
- Canterbury, [Southern Water PLC, England] (generation of electricity
and hot water from sewage works biogas -on going project since 1992),
- Ham Hill , [Southern Water PLC] England (Manufacture and installation
of biogas CHP unit 115kwe - re order of successful Canterbury unit)
- Castlederg, N. Ireland (EC ALTENER funded design study for anaerobic
decomposition of farm and food factory wastes in 1MW cross border co-operative
digester with composting, district heating and biogas CHP facilities),
- Czech Republic (assessment of environmental damage from high
sulphur air pollution and ground subsidence, composting of wastes)
- Windsor Castle, Berkshire, consultant to Crown Estates on Anaerobic
Digestion, biogas engineering, slurry separation and composting.
- Copenhagen, National accredited NGO representative to
World Summit on Social Development , March 1995.
- Odour control and monitoring + solutions to odour problems in
landfill sites
- Castlederg, N.Ireland, Installation of a 24V DC wind turbine
demonstrator.
- Magherafelt, Design and construction of the unique Zero-CO2
(Ultra -low energy) Passive solar powered building.
1989-92 Green Land Systems Ltd. Coleraine, Founder and co-director.
Designed and built :
- Composting Factory,
- 4 Unique High solids Anaerobic Digesters
(still operational),
- CHP units ( around American AJAX engine).
- 70 waste management projects designed.
- Consultancy / engineering business separated from compost processing
business 1992 - [composting business is still supplying excellent compost
and soil amendments to the SportsTurf industry trading as 'GrassRoots.']
1987 Green Land Limited (Natural Resource Development) Draperstown,
Founder Director.
- Completed the commissioning of Bethlehem Abbey Slurry Processing system
- Doctoral Research Project.
Prior to 1987
- Student of Environmental Science with nuclear physics and 'alternative'
energy options majoring in anaerobic digestion.
- 1973 Quality control in Medical device manufacturing industry (anaesthetics
and urology) - Writing British Standards (SGS15/1 Committee)
- 1969 Engineering design in aerospace industry - declined to contribute
to the production of nuclear weapons delivery systems. Involved in control
of rotary electrical machines. Developed the fastest 50HP motor in existence
the CA10001, 300 revolutions per second.
AWARDS
- Winner of 1986 Pollution Abatement Technology Award (UK) from
CBI, Dept. of the Environment and Royal Society of Arts. (Jointly with
Farm Gas and the Monks of Bethlehem Abbey.)
- Equal second in the European Year of the Environment 'Clean Technology
Award' in Brussels (1987)
- Winner of N.I. Region, P.A. Consultant's 'Golden Leaf' Environment
Award.
- 1990 Winner of Department of Trade and Industry 'Smart' Award
- Winner of Department of Trade and Industry 'Smart 2'
- Canterbury CHP unit for Southern Water achieved 'highly commended'
status in the water industry sector of the Environmental Solutions Awards
for industry 1992 sponsored by W&WT, IWM magazine and Hammond Suddards.
INSTITUTE MEMBERSHIP
- Member of the Institute of Biology (Chartered Biologist, Registered
Environmental Biologist)
- Ex member of Institutes of Quality Assurance, Society for General Microbiology,
Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers (no time to read the material these days!)
INTERESTS Registered member of the Baha'i
Community since 1971.
- Consultant to the Baha'i International Community, Office of the Environment,
United Nations, New York.
- Sing (Bass ) in the Northern Ireland Baha'i Choir
RECENT PAPERS PUBLISHED (not exhaustive list)
Gornall L.K. and Wood R.B., 1986 Processing farm effluents to
reduce the environmental impact of agriculture in N. Ireland. in NICEA 86,
Proceedings of the Northern Ireland Conference on Environmental Impact Assessment,
University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Sep. 1986, Nevin G.H. (ed.). 206-215
Gornall L.K. and Wood R.B., 1988, Potential environmental benefits
from processing farm effluents. in Eijsackers H. and Quispel A (eds.), Ecological
bulletins, 39, 143-145 Copenhagen 1988 Proceedings of the 4th European Ecology
Symposium, 7-12 September 1986, Wageningen.
Gornall L.K., 1990, Interaction Between Anaerobic and Aerobic
Processing of Farm Effluent, D.Phil Thesis, Department of Environmental
Studies, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Ulster, Coleraine,
C. Londonderry, UK. 197pp
Gornall L.K., 1991, Making money out of muck - the Green Land
Slurry Processing System. in Richards G.E. and Mistry P.B., (eds.), Proceedings
of the UK Interdepartmental Anaerobic Digestion Seminar, 18th April 1991
at St. John's Swallow Hotel, Solihull, Birmingham, England. Organised by
Energy Technology Support Unit, pub. Harwell Laboratory, Oxfordshire, 0X11
ORA, p. 91-114
Gornall L.K. and Rippey B., 1996, Corrosion Resistant Engine for
Odour Control with Electricity Generation, Water Research, Vol. 30, No.2
pp 351-356 Elsevier Science Ltd. GB
AJAXTM Is the trade mark of Cooper Energy Services, part
of the Cooper Cameron Group, USA
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at Les.Gornall@Dial.Pipex.Com
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