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GÁBOR VÁRHEGYI
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Personal Information
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Address
- Pusztaszeri út 59-67, Budapest, Hungary 1025
Mail address: PO Box 17, Budapest, Hungary 1525
Phone: +36 (1) 438 1148
Degrees
- 1994: Doct. Habil., Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 1992: Doctor of Chemical Science (D.Sc.), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1980: Candidate of Chemical Science (C.Sc.), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (recognized as PhD by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
- 1973: Doctoral degree, Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Budapest
- 1970: M.Sc. in Chemistry, Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Budapest
Positions
- 2008 - Scientific Adviser, Head of the Laboratory of Thermal Investigations (within the Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- Earlier positions in this Institute and its predecessors: Head of Department of Environmental Chemistry (1999-2007); Head of Department of Thermal Analysis (1998); Head of Department of Macromolecular Chemistry (1996-1997); Scientific adviser (1992-1995), Senior researcher (1980-1992); Researcher (1973 - 1979)
Projects
- 2008 - 2012: Project Manager in a Hungarian OTKA research project entitled "Study of the Chemical Processes of Biomass Utilization"
- 2005 - 2007: Project Manager of the Hungarian team in a LIFE project of the European Union entitled "Biochar based co-generation alternative" (Acronym: BioCoAl, contact number: LIFE05 ENV/IT/00801)
- 1995 - 2005 Project Manager in Hungarian research projects on biomass and other fuels.
- 1993 - 1996: Project Manager of the Hungarian team in a JOULE II project of the European Union ( "Fuel reactivity and release of pollutants and alkali vapours in pressurized solid fuel combustion for combined cycle power generation" , JOU2CT920037)
- 1990 - 1997: Principal Investigator in two consecutive US - Hungarian Science and Technology Joint Fund grants (1990-1997)
Main Research Topics
- Thermal decomposition and gasification/combustion properties of biomass materials and other solid fuels
- Reaction kinetic evaluation of experiments at arbitrary temperature - time functions assuming complex mechanism schemes
- Developing software for reaction kinetic evaluation, computer control, data acquisition and data processing of measurement systems
Experience Abroad
- 2007 - 2009: Visits in the China University of Petroleum. Subject: biomass research. (Guest professor title till 2014).
- 2005-2009: Visits in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Subject: biomass research and teaching on PhD courses
- 1987 - 2000: Visits in the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii, USA. Subject: Charcoal formation from biomass materials (18 months combined)
- 1996: Visiting scientist at the National Institute for Resources and Environment, Japan. Subject: Thermochemical conversion of biomass materials (2 months)
- 1973 - 1974: Postdoctoral research scholarship in the École Polytechnique, Paris, France. Subject: thermodynamics (6 months)
Memberships
Publications (data of April 2010)
- Author/coauthor of 93 English language research papers
- Number of citations by other authors: above 1800 (see details here )
- an article [Antal and Várhegyi, 1995] is the 10th in list "Most Cited Articles / All Time" , and 14th in list "Most Cited Articles / Last 3 Years" of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (a journal of the American Chemical Society )
- an article [Várhegyi et al, 1997] was the third under the "Top 10 Cited" tab in August, 2009 in the homepage of Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (an Elsevier journal which has not displayed citation lists on the older articles since then)
List of selected papers
List of Publications
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