Up-to-Date Waste-to-Energy Approach

Professor Petr Stehlik, is director of the Institute of Process and Environmental Engineering at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. He also currently holds the position of Vice President of the Czech Society of Chemical Engineers and gained many years of experience in engineering practice prior to joining the university. At present he is also a director of research and development of a certified engineering and contracting company with activities involving waste to energy technologies. Some of Professor Stehlik’s current responsibilities include: Executive Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering and Guest Editor of other international journals, Coordinator/Contractor of national and international research projects, Author/Co-author of numerous papers, and plenary/keynote speaker at various international conferences. He is a co-founder and President/Vice-President of PRES conference – Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction. His research and development activities are aimed specifically at waste to energy systems, applied heat transfer, process integration in special cases, energy saving and environmental protection. He has also founded a research and development NETME Centre (New Technologies for Mechanical Engineering) and Waste-to-Energy Competence Centre. Owing to his achievements he has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate.

• Introduction.- Conceptual Approach.- Investment Planningbased on NERUDA System.- WtE as Integrated Items -  - REGION and EVELINE systems.- Selection ofConvenient Technology.- Subsystems, Equipment and Other Aspects.- ComputationalSupport.- Conclusions.