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Volume 1, Issue 5 |
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New ARI Faculty
John
H. Pohl, professor of mechanical and mining engineering,
joined the Alexandria Research Institute in May 2001.
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He came to Virginia Tech after serving as director,
professor and coordinator of the Black Coal Utilization Research Unit
at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
In 1988, Pohl founded Energy International (EI).
EI is designed to provide research, development and consulting services
to improve combustor performance, characterize fuel performances,
and control pollutant emissions. Pohl is the current EI president.
Prior to founding EI, Pohl was a senior scientist
of energy for W.J. Schafer Associates, Inc., where he developed
a low nitrogen oxide burner, and calculated the affect of mineral
constituents on selective catalytic reduction.
He has also worked as the director of research and
development for Energy System Associates; the director of fossil
energy at Energy and Environmental Research Corporation;and part
of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories; and as a
lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The
Center for Energy and the Global Environment (CEAGE)
is charged with determining environmentally compatible methods
of power generation and use in all parts of the world. |
The
Center for Energy and the Global Environment (CEAGE) is charged
with determining environmentally compatible methods of power
generation and use in all parts of the world. The objective
of the Center is to study and facilitate the implementation
of cost-effective ways of generating and using various forms
of energy (including electricity) such that their impact on
the environment is minimized. The Center's personnel believe
that challenges to energy development and environmental sustainability
are global in nature. Consequently global solutions with mutual
agreements are needed. However, meaningful agreements can only
be reached and sustained when steps are taken to address their
long-term implications, which include adequate transfer of technologies
and appropriate operation and management practices.
The plan of operation of our Center is different from many.
Programs at the Center are guided by discussions with the U.S.
industry and regulatory bodies, and our visits to and contacts
in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the newly emerging economies
in Europe. Based on these discussions, our objective is to either
find or generate the necessary information, and make it available
to the interested parties. A large part of our efforts is spent
in dissemination of appropriate and available knowledge rather
than generating new knowledge. We offer opportunities to our
client institutions and organizations such that they can participate
in meaningful seminars, workshops, studies and training activities
without the burden of heavy financial commitments. Several seminars
and workshops have been held recently in Thailand, Greece, Malaysia,
Saudi Arabia, India and Bangladesh. |
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Pohl has made technical contributions to the rate of combustion
of individual macerals of coal, the removal of toxic metals from
wastewater, the control of nitrogen oxides, ash deposition and the
evaluation of fuel performance. He is the author of over 120 technical
papers and co-inventor of four patents. His works have been presented
in 21 counties including Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, the former
Soviet Union, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Pohl is the recipient of the 1987 U.S. EPA Scientific and Technology
Achievement Award for his works with flare flames. The Energy Committee
of Taiwan has recognized him for his contributions, which have determined
power plant coal performance. He is active in the American Research
Committee, the Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society,
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Australian Institute
of Energy, the Combustion Institute and the International Flame
Research Foundation.
Pohl earned his bachelor's in chemical engineering
from the University of California, Berkeley, and his master's and
ScD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also in chemical
engineering.
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