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In Honor of Professor Brian Haynes on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (CFD)] and Dr. Tony Johnston (inventor of printed circuit heat exchangers and founder of Heatric), among others. Brian has also acted as (co)supervisor to more than 20 Ph.D. students at The University of Sydney. Brian Haynes has served the Combustion Institute (CI) in many positions, most importantly as its President (2004−2008) and as a member of the CI Board of Directors (1998−2008), continuing as a board member in an honorary capacity since 2008. He also served as Program Co-chair of the 27th International Combustion Symposium in Boulder, CO, Aug 2−7, 1998. Brian was awarded the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal of the CI in 2012 for “brilliant research in the field of combustion, particularly on the catalytic reformation of fuels, reactions in microchannels and the formation of pollutants, including soot”. His relationship with the CI spans more than 3 decades: in 1972, he joined the Australia−New Zealand (ANZ) section, and he made his first presentation at a Combustion Symposium in Tokyo in 1974. He has attended every symposium since then! Brian chaired the ANZ section for many years, with a mission to enhance combustion research in the Asia-Pacific region; he was also instrumental in bringing the Indian section into the Asia-Pacific Combustion Conference (ASPACC). The ANZ section recently established a regional travel award bearing his name, and the Japanese Combustion Society awarded him their 2013 International Prize for “distinguished contributions to the international and Japanese research community”. Brian’s outstanding work for the CI has assumed a new dimension with his contributions to the CI’s scientific publishing environment, especially in shaping the long-term publishing conditions for the CI journals, Combustion and Flame and Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. While a stable business relationship with the publisher of these journals has been maintained, a recently renewed agreement offers important and improved conditions for the combustion community, for authors and editors, and for the CI. To honor his exceptional service, Brian received the first President’s Appreciation Award for “his excellent service leading to long-term competitive conditions in relation to the scientific publications of the Combustion Institute”. It should not go unnoticed that the CI had profited from his advice regarding publishing matters already in the past.
Professor Brian Haynes at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, turned 65 years old in 2016. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering (Chemical) with First Class Honors and the University Medal at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1973 and his Ph.D. degree at UNSW in 1976 for the formation and behavior of nitrogen species in fuel-rich hydrocarbon flames. In 1976−1978, Brian was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, which he took up at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. From 1979 to 1981, he was a Visiting Engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Laboratory and a Lecturer in the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering. He was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Fossil Fuels in 1981−1983, where he began work on surface complexes involved in carbon oxidation and gasification. Since 1983, Brian has worked in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Sydney. Brian has a long and distinguished career in chemical process engineering and kinetic modeling of energy-intensive applications, such as gasification, biofuels, combustion, and CO2 capture. He is especially interested in research that entails the study and application of fundamentals with a view to solving practical problems and, thus, works closely with industry, demonstrated also in the granting of several international patents in the area of process intensification. He is an author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, Brian Haynes was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2002. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. In his long career, Brian worked with some outstanding collaborators whose influence he gratefully acknowledges, in his early postdoctoral years; Professors Heinz Georg Wagner (Göttingen) and Adel Sarofim (MIT) provided guidance and opportunity to work on exciting problems, while his work at Sydney has featured especially fruitful collaborations with Professor David F. Fletcher [computational fluid dynamics © 2017 American Chemical Society
Jun Huang
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
Peter Ashman
Special Issue: In Honor of Professor Brian Haynes on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday Published: February 28, 2017 2107
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00420 Energy Fuels 2017, 31, 2107−2108
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Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
Peter Nelson
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00420 Energy Fuels 2017, 31, 2107−2108
