Professor
Department Head (2009-2019)
Office: CHBE 229
Email: peter.englezos@ubc.ca
Research Summary
- Computational thermodynamics for CO2 and H2 systems for safe pipeline transport
- Clathrate hydrates and climate change
- Optimization and machine learning in process engineering
Education
University of Calgary, 1990, Ph.D.
University of Calgary, 1986, M.A.Sc.
National Technical University of Athens, 1981, B.Sc.
Research interests + projects
Computational thermodynamics for CO2 and H2 systems for safe pipeline transport. The design of transport facilities for captured CO2 and H2/Natural gas mixtures relies on accurate and robust thermodynamic models. Our interest is to develop advanced thermodynamics predictive methods for such systems to determine safe processing conditions.
Clathrate hydrates and climate change. We are interested to assess the risk of the uncontrolled dissociation of the earth’s methane hydrates and the positive feedback on climate warming.
Optimization and machine learning in process engineering. We are interested in using Science-based machine learning as a modelling approach for systems of interest in chemical engineering with a focus on clathrate hydrates and thermophysical properties. This work evolve naturally, from the nonlinear optimization methods for parameter estimation in various fields of chemical engineering we developed in the past 35 years.
Awards and honours
11th International & European Conference on Gas Hydrates, June 29 – July 3, 2026, Lyon, France, Lifetime Achievement Award.
Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada, 2025
R.S. Jane Memorial Award , 2021
Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering , 2009
Fellow, Tokyo Electric Power Company endowed Chair, Keio University , 1999
UBC Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship , 1997
Full publications list
Selected publications + presentations
Englezos, P., “Clathrate Hydrate Crystallization”, P. Englezos, Can. J. Chem. Eng. 2026, 1. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.70411
Townson, I.P. Englezos, “Phase Equilibria of the Tetrabutylammonium Lactate (TBAL) Semiclathrate in the Presence of the Trehalose Disaccharide”, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 70 (7), 2861-2868, 2025
Li, G., P. Englezos, D. Sun, XS Li, QN Lv, YF Weng, Simulation of CO2 hydrate formation in porous medium and comparison with laboratory trial data, Energy, 310, 2024, 133224.
Li, XY, DL Zhong, J Yan, P Englezos, LM Wu, Raman Spectroscopy Study on the Competition between CH4 and N2 to Form Mixed Gas Hydrate, Energy & Fuels 38 (14), 12916-12924, 2024.
Townson, I., C. Haynes, P. Englezos, “Tetrabutylammonium lactate semiclathrate hydrate phase equilibria and polymorphs”, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 579, April 2024, 114020
Englezos, P., “Phase equilibrium in canonical cubic structure I (sI) and II (sII) and hexagonal (sH) gas hydrate solid solutions”, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 578, March 2024, 114005
Englezos, P., “Technology Readiness Level of Gas Hydrate Technologies”, Can J. Chem. Eng., 101 (6), 3034-3043, 2023
Sharifi, H., P. Englezos, A Dual Bed – Cyclic Gas Hydrate Process (DB-CGHP) for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Other Gas Separations, Energy and Fuels, 36(18), 10610-10617, 2022.