Future Liquid Fuels
Potential to reach European climate policy goals
06.06.2018
BluePoint Brussels
SPEAKERS
Klaus Lucka
Managing Director, TEC4FUELS
Studies
10/1986-5/1992: RWTH Aachen: Mechanical Engineering
Professional career
8/1992: Scientific assistant, RWTH Aachen, Subject: Energy and mass transfer
2/1996: PhD with honours: “Reduction of NOx emissions through targeted manipulation of flow control during combustion”
3/1996: Chief Engineer: RWTH Aachen, Subject: Energy and mass transfer. Director of the research group: “Innovative vaporisation concepts for liquid fuels”. Development of the draft vaporiser with use of cool flames
1/2000: Director, Oel-Waerme-Institut GmbH
Since 10/2015: Managing Partner, TEC4FUELS GmbH
Reviewer
· Journal of Power Sources, Elsevier Verlag
· Fuel, Elsevier Verlag
· Journal of Clean Environment, Begell House Inc.
Consultant
· German Federal Environmental Foundation, Osnabrück
· German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AIF), Cologne
· Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Trade and Industry (Stiftung Industrie Forschung, SIF)
Memberships
· Combustion Institute, German Section
· ProcessNet, Technical committee on Biofuels
· Research Association of Industrial Furnace Manufacturers (FOGI), Member of the scientific board and extraordinary member of FOGI
· Association Quality Management Biodiesel AGQM, Technical committee
· German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology (DGMK), Technical committee on fuels
· UFOP, Technical commission on Biofuels and Renewable Raw Materials
· Member of the scientific board, AiF
Awards
3/1996: As recognition of the excellent scientific achievements in relation with the PhD:
· Awarding of the Borchers Plakette
· Awarding of the Friedrich-Wilhelm Prize
9/2001: Awarding of the Wilhelm-Jost Medal of the German Section of the Combustion Institute:
“The oil porous burner for domestic heating”, jointly with Dr.-Ing. Dimosthenis Trimis