Awards
June 2019
Best Paper / Scientific Contribution
Award ECOS’2018, 31st Int. Conf. on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization,
Simulation
and Environmenal
Impact of Energy Systems, June 17-22, 2018, Guimarães,
Portugal for paper
“Carbon dioxide dissolution and ammonia losses in bubble columns for
precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) production”
by Ron Zevenhoven, Daniel Legendre, Arshe Said and Mika Järvinen
October 2009
Nominated
for ENI award 2010, section ENVIRONMENT,
together with Dr. Arto Sarvi,
for publications on emissions from large-scale
diesel
engines published in Fuel Proc. Technol. in 2008 and included in Sarvi’s dr. thesis (Dec. 2008)
December 2007
As a
result of contributing to Chapter 7 of the IPCC Special report on Carbon
dioxide capture and storage (2005): can
be found here
awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize 2007, shared
with ~2500 other persons involved in IPCC activities, and A.A. Gore Jr.,
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate
greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations
for the
measures that are needed to counteract such change" click here for
more details
April 2004
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Solid Waste Processing Division
(ASME/SWPD) Special Recognition Award
for Test facility for Two-stage processing of high-PVC solid waste at Helsinki
University of Technology
January 2002
Best new course material year 2001 of Helsinki University of Technology /
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering for
"Control of pollutants in flue gases and fuel gases", R. Zevenhoven
& P. Kilpinen can be found here
May 1997
Best paper award at the 14th Int. Conf. on Fluidized Bed Combustion,
for paper titled "Characterisation of fuels for
second-generation PFBC"
May 1995
Best paper award at the 13th Int. Conf. on Fluidized Bed Combustion,
for paper / poster titled "How does sorbent particle structure
influence sulphur capture under PFBC conditions"
Special stipendia
May 2018
Henry Ford Foundation funding 2018 for a small project "Passive cooling through
the atmospheric window for vehicle temperature control"
at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal and Flow Engineering
February 2018
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2018 for project "The energy efficiency of rock crushing and
grinding equipment – revisited"
for PhD thesis and/or an MSc graduation
project at Åbo Akademi
University / Thermal and Flow Engineering
February 2014
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2014 for project "Energy-efficient separations in aqueous
solutions using membranes for CO2 mineral sequestration"
for PhD thesis and/or an MSc graduation
project at Åbo Akademi
University / Thermal and Flow Engineering
February 2014
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus") 2014 for project “Producing useful carbonate and sulphate
salts from phosphogypsum”
for postgraduate student(s) at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal
and Flow Engineering
March 2013
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2013 for project "Streamlining the production of magnesium
hydroxide from silicate rock for CO2 sequestration"
for an MSc graduation project at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal
and Flow Engineering
February 2013
Runar Bäckström
Foundation funding for developing the innovative “ÅA route for CO2
mineral sequestration” towards large-scale application
February 2012
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2012 for project "How to
improve the energy efficiency of comminution (crushing and grinding) process
equipment for rock
and ore processing" for an MSc graduation project at Åbo
Akademi University / Thermal and Flow Engineering
December 2011
Erkki Paasiki Foundation
funding for year 2012 (and, with reservation also for year 2013) for test
set-up development based on long-wavelength
thermal radiation, at Åbo Akademi
University / Thermal and Flow Engineering
November 2011
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 4 of 4
for project " Solar
heat engineering and carbon dioxide: energy recovery
using a greenhouse gas " (2009-2012) Year
2012 for PhD student Martin Fält at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal
and Flow Engineering
June 2011
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus") 2011 for project “Water and aqueous solution processing for CO2 mineral
sequestration”
for postgraduate student(s) at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal
and Flow Engineering
November 2010
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 3 of 4
for project " Solar
heat engineering and carbon dioxide: energy recovery
using a greenhouse gas " (2009-2012) Year
2011 for PhD student Martin Fält at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal
and Flow Engineering
January 2010
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2010 for project " Large scale CO2 mineralization
in Finland: broadening the mineral resources horizon"
for an MSc graduation project at Åbo Akademi University / Thermal
and Flow Engineering
November 2009
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 2 of 4
for project " Solar
heat engineering and carbon dioxide: energy recovery
using a greenhouse gas " (2009-2012) Year
2010 for PhD student Martin Fält at
February 2009
Magnus Ehrnrooths Foundation funding 2009 for an MSc graduation
project project
“Analysis
of multi-phase flow simulation using MFIX” (for MSc thesis of Joel K. Songok) at Åbo Akademi University / Heat Engineering
January 2009
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2009 for project
"Carbonation of magnesium silicate minerals for long-term storage of
carbon dioxide, using a high pressure gas-solid process" (year 3 of 3) at
November 2008
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 1 of 4
for project " Solar
heat engineering and carbon dioxide: energy recovery
using a greenhouse gas " (2009-2012) Year
2009 for PhD student Martin Fält at
March 2008
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2008 for project
"Carbonation of magnesium silicate minerals for long-term storage of
carbon dioxide, using a high pressure gas-solid process" (year 2 of 3) at
May 2007
Henry Ford Foundation funding 2007 for an MSc graduation project "The use
of CO2 as refrigerant in automobile and truck
air conditioning" at
November 2006
KH Renlund Foundation funding 2007 for project
"Carbonation of magnesium silicate minerals for long-term storage of
carbon dioxide, using a high pressure gas-solid process" (year 1 of 3) at
June 2006
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus")
2006 for an MSc graduation project "Combined thermal treatment of
CCA wood waste and municipal sewage sludge for arsenic emissions control"
at
May 2006
Henry Ford Foundation funding 2006 for an MSc graduation project "Fuel
reforming and hydrogen production
using natural gas" at
November 2005
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 3 of 3
for project "Thermal processing of solid problem wastes" (2004-2006)
Year 2006 for PhD student Jaakko Savolahti at
Helsinki University of Technology
April 2005
Research fellow for the
(unfortunately this ended November 1, 2005 when appointed professor at
November 2004
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 2 of 3
for project "Thermal processing of solid problem wastes" (2004-2006)
Year 2005 for PhD student Jaakko Savolahti at
Helsinki University of Technology
June 2004
Research fellow of the
November 2003
M&T Nessling Foundation funding for year 1 of 3
for project "Thermal processing of solid problem wastes" (2004-2006)
Year 2004 for PhD student (currently post-doc) Loay Saeed at Helsinki
University of Technology
June 2003
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus")
2003 for study on polyurethane waste processing at Helsinki University of
Technology
June 2002
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus")
2002 for study on automotive shredder residue (ASR) and compact disc (CD) waste
processing
(with PhD student Loay Saeed at Helsinki University of Technology)
June 2001
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus")
2001 for study on processing of wastes containing brominated flame retardants
(BFRs)
(with PhD student Antti Tohka at Helsinki University
of Technology)
June 2000
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus")
2000 for study on mineral carbonation for CO2 long-term storage in
(for PhD student Jens Kohlmann at Helsinki University
of Technology)
June 1999
Ekokem support funding ("apurahoitus")
1999 for study on two-stage processing of high-PVC solid waste
(for PhD student Loay Saeed at Helsinki University of Technology)
October 1994
Human Capital and Mobility (nowadays called Marie Curie Fellow) post-doc
stipendium from the Commission of the European Communities / DG XII,
Jan. 1995
- May 1996 (at
