Keith Mangnall is a mechanical engineer with additional experience as an electrical engineer. He has been with Hick Hargreaves and Company for an impressive 49 years where he has been Technical Director since 1969.
Keith studied engineering at Bolton Technical College and then completed an apprenticeship with Hick Hargreaves. He spent two years in the RAF as a design engineer on special projects before returning to Hicks.
Over the years, Keith has taken a leading roll in all of the company’s new products which have mainly been for the power industry. This has included the first pannier condensers, which are at Didcot Power Station, and the first 550MW underslung condensers. In addition to developing condensers, he has also worked on high vacuum steam ejectors and direct contact feedwater heaters. Keith attributes his success as an innovator to his willingness to take a lateral approach to design rather than following the well trodden paths.
He has also seen the value of good research and has therefore had a successful long collaboration with David Webb at UMIST. A joint paper with David and one of David’s students was judged the best paper presented at the 2nd UK National Heat Transfer Conference in 1988. The authors received the hts Mike Ackrill award for this achievement.
