Dr. McKay has almost 40 years' experience in academia and industry. He is presently a professor of sustainable development at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Prior to this he was head of department and professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). During his time in Hong Kong he was Chairman of the Chemical Discipline of HKIE.
Prior to joining HKUST in 1995 he spent 10 years in industry. He established his own company, Consultancy Process Engineering and Management Systems, and this company was subcontracted to Project Management (PM) Ltd (Foster Wheeler Ireland) who employ over 600 staff and is Ireland's largest process engineering design company. From 1971 to 1987, Dr. McKay was in the Chemical Engineering Department at Queen’s University, Belfast and he was a training consultant to the BP Oil Refinery in Northern Ireland. He has over 400 publications in international refereed journals and authored eight books about energy, environment and process design. He co-authored the third most cited paper (6,000 cites to date) ever in the SCI Chemical Engineering sector and has an h-index of 85.
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
2015 – PresentHKUST
2012 – 2015Foster Wheeler Ireland Consultancy Sub-Contracting
1991 – 1995CPEMS Process Engineering Design Consultancy - PEDC
1987 - 1995The Queen's University of Belfast
1986 - 1987The Queen's University of Belfast Lecturer
1985 - 1986The Queen's University of Belfast
1980 - 1984The Queen's University of Belfast
1971 - 1980Belfast College of Technology
1970 - 1971Albright & Wilson Ltd., Harrogate, Yorks
1966(Herbicides), Bradford, Yorks
1964-1965ICI Fibres,, Doncaster
1964Bradford University, UK (adsorption systems in wastewater treatment)
1992Bradford University, UK (combustion kinetics)
1970Bradford University, UK
1967Chemical Engineering Technology, Vol. 38, No.3 pp.482-488
2015Renewable Energy, Vol. 77 pp. 512-520
2015Chemical Engineering Journal. Vol. 269 20-26
2015Journal of Hazardous Materials. Vol. 283 pp. 234-243
2015Waste Management. Vol. 35 pp. 236-246
2015A calcium oxide based catalyst derived from palm kernel gasification residues for biodiesel production, Fuel, 150 pp. 519-525
2015An unsteady state retention model for fluid desorption from sorbents, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 450 pp. 127-134
2015Chemical Engineering Journal. Vol. 256 pp. 415-420
2014Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 273(0): pp.118-123
2014