Rate My Professor Solange Kelly

Dr. Solange Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Utilities and Sustainable Engineering Unit at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), serving as the Overall Programme Leader for Utilities Engineering Programmes. Appointed in July 2024 as Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Studies, she brings over twenty years of postgraduate research and industrial experience in process systems optimization, exergy analysis, and harnessing energy from waste and the ocean. Her specialisation is Energy Engineering. Early in her career, Dr. Kelly worked as a Research Assistant at the University of the West Indies for two years, conducting exergy analysis of absorption chillers and power plant systems. She also served as a Research Assistant at the Technical University of Berlin, researching optimization of thermal power plant systems using advanced energy techniques. In 2006, she received recognition from the Advanced Energy Systems Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for her work splitting exergy destruction into endogenous and exogenous parts.

Dr. Kelly's research focuses on thermal system optimization, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems for Small Island Developing States, landfill gas utilization, methane quantification from landfills using models like IPCC 2006, and waste-to-energy conversion. Her contributions include key publications such as 'A Preliminary Assessment of the Quantity of Methane from Landfill Gas on the Island of Trinidad using the IPCC 2006 Model' (2025, Caribbean Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies), 'Site Selection of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Plants' (2022), 'Effect of a Cold Seawater Discharge Plume for an Open Cycle OTEC Plant' (2024), 'Opportunity Analysis OTEC Tobago' (2019), and Hall, K., Kelly, S., & Henry, L. (2023). With 25 publications and 693 citations, her work impacts sustainable energy solutions in small islands. She has presented at events like the Future Proof Conference 2022 and spoken for the IMechE UTT Student Chapter.