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R.I. ILKAEV*, Yu.A. TRUTNEV*, A.L. GUSEV*, J.C. KIJEK**, M.D. HAMPTON**, Yu.P. SCHERBAK***.
* Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics ** University of Central Florida *** Sarov Physicist-Technical State Institute
Justification for Nomination of
Prof. Dr. T. Nejat Veziroglu for
Nobel Prize in Economics
Prof. Dr. T. Nejat Veziroglu is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Clean Energy Research Institute, University of Miami. He has distinguished himself in the field of heat transfer through very important accomplishments in interstitial heat transfer and two-phase flow instabilities. He has contributed extensively to the literature in these areas.
Dr. Veziroglu is the first person in the world to develop a program that is truly ecologically clean based on hydrogen as a fuel. His contributions to the economic, scientific, and theoretical development of the field of hydrogen energy are known throughout the world. His name appears in the program and organization of virtually every international conference, symposium, and seminar on hydrogen energy. The International Association of Hydrogen Energy, headed by Dr. Veziroglu, has more than 300,000 members and it sponsors practically all large forums in the world concerning hydrogen energy. Dr. Veziroglu is a leading authority whose expertise will be highly sought as nations begin switching to a hydrogen economy.
However, there is an additional area, that actually lends itself to the solution of important global problems today and the progress of civilization into the future, in which Prof. Dr. Veziroglu is known throughout the world as a pioneer. This is the area for which he is being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economics. As we all know, energy and environmental problems are important societal and economic issues that have been occupying scientists for the past three decades. These are interrelated problems. The fossil fuels (coal, petroleum and natural gas), which meet about 80 percent of the energy demand today, are being depleted rapidly. In addition, they cause and/or contribute to global environmental problems, such as climate change, depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain, pollution, and oil spills - resulting in substantial economic losses. Prof. Dr. Veziroglu has been involved in research into the utilization of hydrogen as a fuel for many years. He began investigating hydrogen as a fuel for rocket engines in 1962. Right after the energy crisis of 1973, he organized The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, held 18-20 March 1974, in Miami Beach, Florida. In the opening address of the conference and in a paper he also presented in the conference, he proposed the Hydrogen Economy, or the Hydrogen Energy System, as the permanent solution to the interrelated energy and environmental problems. In this system, hydrogen would be the main energy carrier. Hydrogen was proposed to be generated using renewable and new energy sources such as solar, wind, ocean thermal, geothermal, nuclear and/or thermonuclear. Hydrogen would then be used in every application where fossil fuels
are being used today. Many scientists and environmentalists agree that the Hydrogen Energy System will eventually replace the fossil fuel system, will remedy most of the environmental problems discussed at the Rio Earth Summit (June 1992), and will provide humankind with clean and abundant energy. Prof. Dr. Nejat Veziroglu has carried out his research into the Hydrogen Economy or the Hydrogen Energy System through the Clean Energy Research Institute. He has lectured and published extensively. Up to now, he has co-authored two books, edited more than 50 proceedings, authored or co-authored some 100 papers, and has given some 100 invited lectures on hydrogen energy. He has contributed more than any other scientist in this field. Prof. Dr. Veziroglu is also the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly scientific journal, the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, which is in its 25th year of printing. Because of the high quality of his research, along with that of his colleagues', at the Clean Energy Research Institute, the United States Department of Energy designated the University of Miami as a Center of Excellence in Hydrogen Energy R & D in 1997. Prof. Dr. Veziroglu has been invited four times to testify before United States Congressional Committees concerning bills to fight acid rain and the greenhouse effect, as well as bills to support research into the Hydrogen Energy System. He has received many awards, and was elected as Fellow of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy. Prof. Dr. Veziroglu, after the THEME Conference of 1974, organized the first of the biennial World Hydrogen Energy Conferences. These conferences and the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy have helped to disseminate information about the unique and unparalleled virtues of the Hydrogen Economy. Of course, no technology can take roots without standards, and no universal technology can be established without international standards. In 1990, the International Standards Organization (ISO) started work to prepare the standards for Hydrogen Energy technologies, and the work is progressing. Dr. Veziroglu headed the Unitet committee, viz., ISO-TC-197.
Since Prof. Dr. Veziroglu's proposal in 1974, research and development work carried out over a quarter of a century, has firmly established that the Hydrogen Economy is the ideal system to replace the present fossil fuel based economy. The conversion activities have already started. The Westinghouse Company stated that they will have a 1 MW hydrogen power plant on the market for electric utilities starting in the year 2001. All of the major car companies, including General Motors, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, BMW, Toyota, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi have announced that they will offer to the public hydrogen fuelled cars beginning in 2004. The Shell Oil Company has established a Hydrogen Energy Division to have hydrogen available at fuelling stations when the hydrogen cars hit the market. It is clear that Prof. Dr. Veziroglu's prophecy, expressed at the Opening of the THEME Conference of 1974, "we may see the dawning of the Hydrogen Economy early in the 21st century..." is becoming true.
There is no doubt that hydrogen will replace fossil fuels during the present century, and result in a sustainable economy to provide humankind with a higher quality of life, and the planet Earth with an environmentally compatible system. If there is one person who should be honoured for conceiving the Hydrogen Economy and for diligently striving towards its realization, it is Prof. Dr. T. Nejat Veziroglu.
T. NEJAT VEZIROGLU
Dr. Veziroglu, a native of Turkey, graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., B.Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.).
In 1962, after serving in some Turkish government agencies as a Technical Consultant and Deputy Director of Steel Silos, and then heading a private company, he joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering, and two years later initiated the first Ph.D. Program in the School of Engineering and Architecture. He served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1971 through 1975, and was the Associate Dean for Research of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 1975 through 1979. At present, he is the director of the Clean Energy Research Institute at the University of Miami, which acts as the focal point of energy and environment related research and information dissemination activities.
Dr. Veziroglu teaches Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Hydrogen Energy and Nuclear Engineering. His research interests are instabilities in Boiling Water Reactors, Interstitial Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy Sources and Hydrogen Energy System. He has published some 200 scientific reports and papers, edited 160 volumes of proceedings , and is the editor-in-chief of the monthly scientific journals International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and International Journal of Energy Environment Economics. He has been an invited lecturer and/or consultant on energy research and education to many countries, including U.S.S.R., People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Japan, Canada, Germany, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia.
Dr. Veziroglu organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, Miami Beach, March 1974. This conference considered hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels, as a clean, renewable fuel, and aroused wide interest throughout the world. Subsequently, several conferences and symposia have been organized by Dr. Veziroglu on energy and environment related subjects such as Hydrogen Energy, Remote Sensing Applied to Energy Problems, Ocean Energy Systems, Multi-Phase Flows, Biosphere: Problems and Solutions, and Energy and Environment.
Dr. Veziroglu has memberships in eighteen scientific organizations, has been elected to the grade of Fellow in the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.
International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology Copyright©2000 by STC "TATA" July 2000, Vol. 1
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