Włodzimierz Błasiak (Polish: ; is a Polish

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

and Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the

KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a Public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in Institute of technology, engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest te ...

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

. He is known for research in the areas of

mineralogy Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical mineralogy, optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifact (archaeology), artifacts. Specific s ...

waste management Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of waste, together with monitor ...

pyrolysis Pyrolysis is a process involving the Bond cleavage, separation of covalent bonds in organic matter by thermal decomposition within an Chemically inert, inert environment without oxygen. Etymology The word ''pyrolysis'' is coined from the Gree ...

energy engineering Energy engineering is a multidisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on optimizing energy systems, developing renewable energy technologies, and improving energy efficiency to meet the world's growing demand for energy in a sustainable man ...

and

plasma gasification Plasma gasification is a thermal process that converts organic matter into a syngas (synthesis gas) which is primarily made up of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. A plasma torch powered by an electric arc ionizes gas and transforms organic matter ...

. He is the winner of the 2010

George Westinghouse Medal The George Westinghouse Medal is named for George Westinghouse and awarded to in honor of "eminent achievement or distinguished service in the power field of mechanical engineering" by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There is a Gold m ...

Life and career

Since 1989, he has worked at the

where he came to from Poland as a post-doctoral student. He conducts research primarily in the field of

and

. Together with Jan Grimbrandt, he is the co-founder of industrial

cleantech Clean technology, also called cleantech or climate tech, is any process, product, or service that reduces negative environmental impacts through significant energy efficiency improvements, the sustainable use of resources, or environmental prote ...

company Boson Energy. In 2010, he received the

awarded for "eminent achievement or distinguished service in the power field of

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

" by the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing edu ...

(ASME).

Selected publications

*''High Temperature Air Combustion (HiTAC) Phenomena and its Thermodynamics'' (with Nabil Elias Rafidi and Ashwani K. Gupta, 2014) *''Biomass char burnout properties in a pulverized coal boiler after 100% fuel switch'' (with Jun Li and Weihong Yang, 2014) *''Effect of zeolite to binder ratio on product yields and composition during catalytic steam pyrolysis of biomass over transition metal modified HZSM5'' (with Efthymios Kantarelis, and Weihong Yang, 2014) *''Co-firing based on biomass torrefaction in a pulverized coal boiler with aim of 100% fuel switching'' (with Xiaolei Zhang, Jun Li, and Weihong Yang, 2013) *''Thermal decomposition mechanism of levoglucosan during cellulose pyrolysis'' (with Xiaolei Zhang and Weihong Yang, 2012) *''Change of pyrolysis characteristics and structure of woody biomass due to steam explosion pretreatment'' (with Amit Kumar Biswas, Kentaro Umeki and Weihong Yang, 2011) *''Recycling of automobile shredder residue with a microwave pyrolysis combined with high temperature steam gasification'' (with Pawel Donaj, Weihong Yang, and Christer Forsgren, 2010) *''The Influence of Oxide Scale on Heat Transfer during Reheating of Steel'' (with Patrik Wikström and Weihong Yang, 2008)

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Life and career

Selected publications

See also

References