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János M. Beér

Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Fuels Engineering

janos m. beer

Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 66-301
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Phone: 617.253.6661
Fax: 617.258.5766
Email: jmbeer@mit.edu

D.Sc., University of Sheffield, England, 1968
Ph.D., University of Sheffield, England, 1960
Dipl.-Ing., Technical University of Budapest, 1950

Honors and Awards
The US Department of Energy's Homer Lowry Award, 2003
The George Westinghouse Gold Medal of ASME International, 2001
Energy Systems Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998
Honorary Doctorate, University of Technical Sciences of Budapest, Hungary, 1997
Axel Axelson Johnson Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, 1995
Honorary Member, Hungarian National Academy of Engineering, 1991
Foreign Member, Finnish Academy of Engineering, 1989
ASME Percy-Nicholls Award, 1988
Honorary Doctorate, University of Miskolc, Hungary, 1987
Honorary Member Hungarian Academy of Science, 1986
Coal Science Gold Medal, BCURA, 1986
Egerton Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute, 1986
Melchett Medal of the Institute of Energy, 1985
Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.), 1978

Research Interests
_ clean fossil energy electric power generation
_ turbulent combustion of gaseous, liquid and solid fuels
_ reduction of pollutant emission from flames by combustion process modification

Current Research
Selected Publications and Lectures