Plasma Gasification and Pyrolysis

By:   Milan Hrabovsky, Michal Jeremias, Guido van Oost
Imprint:   CRC Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9780367556853
ISBN 10:   0367556855
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   20 September 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Guido van Oost is emeritus professor of Nuclear Fusion at Ghent University, Belgium. He is Honorary Professor of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and holds a Silver Commemorative Medal of Charles University in Prague, an Ernst Mach Honorary Medal for Merit in the Physical Sciences (Czech Academy of Sciences), and a Medal of the Czech Technical University in Prague to honour outstanding contributions to the development of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering. Milan Hrabovsky is a senior scientist and consultant at Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. From 1967 to 1990 he worked as a researcher and later as the Head of Department of Switchgear Technology at the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Prague. His main research areas were vacuum breakdown processes, physics of electric arcs in vacuum and gases, basic problems of current interruption and electromagnetic plasma launchers. In 1990 he joined the Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He founded the Department of Thermal Plasmas and he has worked as a head of the Department till his retirement in 2018. Michal Jeremiáš is head of department at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Science (CAS). He was previously researcher at the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals at CAS. He is the Principal Investigator at two national projects, a member of the team of four international projects and two UK projects.