Rate My Professor Steven Metcalf

Metcalf's academic impact is evidenced by his extensive publication record in adsorption and resorption heat pump technologies, sorption materials, and related thermal engineering topics. Notable publications include "MnCl2-MnBr2: New tailored sorbents for thermal transformation, heat pumps and thermochemical storage" (Journal of Energy Storage, 2025), "Binary salt mixture barium bromide-barium chloride for sorption applications" (Applied Thermal Engineering, 2025), "Design and manufacture of a proof-of-concept resorption heat pump using ammonia-salt chemisorption reactions" (Cleaner Energy Systems, 2023), "Design and large temperature jump testing of a modular finned-tube carbon-ammonia adsorption generator for gas-fired heat pumps" (Energies, 2021), and "Experimentally measured thermal masses of adsorption heat exchangers" (Energies, 2020). He has contributed to international reports such as the IEA Annex 43 Final Report: Fuel Driven Sorption Heat Pumps (2020) and the UK Summary Report on IEA Heat Pump TCP Annex 43 (2019). In teaching, he delivers modules on applied thermodynamics, engines and heat pumps, covering refrigeration, engine cycles, gas turbines, combustion, and heat transfer.