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Dr Les Bowtell

Dr Les Bowtell
Name Les Bowtell
Position Senior Lecturer (Electronic Engineering)
Section School of Engineering
Office Z305E
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1482
Extension 1482
Email
Qualifications BEng USQ , MEng USQ , PhD USQ

Fields of Research (FoR)

  • Environmental Technologies ( 090703 )
  • Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells) ( 090608 )
  • Global And Planetary Environmental Engineering ( 401103 )
  • Electrical Energy Generation (incl. Renewables ( 400803 )
  • Electrical Engineering ( 400800 )
  • Environmental Engineering ( 401100 )
  • Energy Generation ( 401703 )
  • Mechanical Engineering ( 401700 )

Research interests
Renewable energy systems
Industrial Ultrasonic systems

Professional memberships
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (30yrs)

RPEQ Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (12yrs)

Currently teaching courses/programs
ENG1100
ELE2913
ELE3803
ELE3805
ENG4111
ENG4112
ENG8411
ENG8412

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
12 Years

Teaching experience(Other)
3 Years

Administrative responsibilities
Programme Coordinator BENS Electrical



Publications in ePrints

Al-Azzawi, Mohammed and Bowtell, LesORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-7609 and Hancock, KerryORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8543-6310 and Preston, Sarah (2021) Addition of Activated Carbon into a Cattle Diet to Mitigate GHG Emissions and Improve Production. Sustainability, 13 (15):8254. pp. 1-17.

Al-Juboori, Raed A. and Naji, Osamah and Bowtell, LesORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-7609 and Alpatova, Alla and Soukane, Sofiane and Ghaffour, Norreddine (2021) Power effect of ultrasonically vibrated spacers in air gap membrane distillation: Theoretical and experimental investigations. Separation and Purification Technology, 262:118319. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1383-5866

Ji, Boyu and Banhazi, Thomas and Perano, Kristen and Ghahramani, AfshinORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-4606 and Bowtell, LesORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-7609 and Wang, Chaoyuan and Li, Baoming (2020) A review of measuring, assessing and mitigating heat stress in dairy cattle. Biosystems Engineering, 199. pp. 4-26. ISSN 1537-5110

Haraz, Mohammed Taha and Bowtell, LesORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-7609 and Al-Juboori, Raed (2020) Biochar effects on nutrients retention and release of hydroponics growth media. Journal of Agricultural Science, 12 (7). ISSN 1916-9752

Naji, Osamah and Al-juboori, Raed and Bowtell, LesORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-7609 and Alpatova, Alla and Ghaffour, Noreddine (2020) Direct contact ultrasound for fouling control and flux enhancement in air-gap membrane distillation. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 61. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1350-4177

View full listing in ePrints

Research supervisor in the area of:

  • Environmental Technologies ( 090703 )
  • Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells) ( 090608 )
  • Global And Planetary Environmental Engineering ( 401103 )
  • Electrical Energy Generation (incl. Renewables ( 400803 )
  • Electrical Engineering ( 400800 )
  • Environmental Engineering ( 401100 )
  • Energy Generation ( 401703 )
  • Mechanical Engineering ( 401700 )


Research topics