美国哥伦比亚大学Nicolas J. Themelis院士学术报告通知

哥伦比亚大学地球环境工程系教授、美国工程院院士Nicolas J. Themelis教授受岑可法院士邀请，将于2010年5月24日访问浙江大学能源清洁利用国家重点实验室，本次访问得到了111计划项目支持。Themelis教授将于2010年5月24日上午进行一场学术报告，欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学参加。

报告题目：

Importance of Waste-to-Energy(WTE) to China and to the Global Climate

报告时间：2010年5月24日（星期一）上午9:00-11:00

报告地点：热能工程研究所231会议室

附：Nicolas  J.  Themelis院士简介

Dr. Themelis is a graduate of McGill University in chemical and metallurgical engineering. In the first part of his career, he directed the R&D of a multi-billion U.S. corporation (Kennecott Corp.). He joined Columbia in 1980 and is past chair of the Henry Krumb School of Mines and also of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and founder and current director of Columbia’s Earth Engineering Center.

In addition to his teaching at Columbia (transport and chemical rate phenomena, reactor design, industrial ecology), Dr. Themelis has been a consultant to industry, government and NGOs in the areas of process design and management of technical resources. He is member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and member of ISWA, SWANA, ASME International, Air and Waste Management Association, AEESP and otherorganizations.Prof. Themelis is Chair and co-founder, with Maria Zannes of IWSA, of the Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council, an international consortium of universities, companies and other organizations concerned with materials and energy recovery from solid wastes. He is the recipient of several professional awards, author of 180 technical papers and books and inventor ofabout twenty patents related to high temperature processing. Current research work is on integrated waste management and the design of processes for material and energy recovery from used products.