Włodzimierz Błasiak
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Włodzimierz Błasiak | |
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| Awards | George Westinghouse Medal (2010) |
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| Institutions | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Włodzimierz Błasiak (Polish: [vwɔˈd͡ʑimjɛʐ ˈbwaɕak]; is a Polish engineer and Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is known for research in the areas of mineralogy, waste management, pyrolysis, energy engineering and plasma gasification. He is the winner of the 2010 George Westinghouse Medal.
Since 1989, he has worked at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he came to from Poland as a post-doctoral student. He conducts research primarily in the field of mineralogy and waste management.[1][2]
Together with Jan Grimbrandt, he is the co-founder of industrial cleantech company Boson Energy.[3]
In 2010, he received the George Westinghouse Medal awarded for "eminent achievement or distinguished service in the power field of mechanical engineering" by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).[4]