Rankine Lectures

This year's Rankine Memorial Lecture will be 'Carnot batteries and energy polygeneration - A solution to the energy storage question?' and will be delivered by Prof Vincent Lemort

2024 - 'Steam cleaning our environment -Using Steam Turbines to achieve genuine sustainability' by Prof Ian Arbon

2023 - 'Crossed Lines – Key strategic lessons learned from the completion of the Crossrail project' by Mark Wild

2022 - 'Green Ammonia as a Global Reserve Fuel - Marking the end of Oil and Gas' by Dr Mike Mason

2021 - ' The latest developments in compressor technology'  by Prof Eckhard Groll

2020 - 'Unconventional Geothermal Technologies and opportunities' by Prof Gioia Falcone

History of the Rankine Memorial Lecture

In October 2020 Prof Gioia Falcone from the University of Glasgow presented our first lecture commemorating our first President William John Macquorn Rankine 

William Rankine was born in 1820 and the bicentenary of his birth seemed a fitting occasion to launch this prestigious lecture.

Prof Gioia Falcone

Our Institution were very pleased to welcome Prof Falcone, both our Institution and Rankine share many links with the university: Rankine was the first Chair of Engineering at the University; the Professorial Chair – The Rankine Chairs were gifted through donations from Institution members.

When the Institution moved from its premises in Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow, our Institution donated its full technical library to the University of Glasgow, the Institution has made several additional donations since its foundation in Glasgow in 1857