Education
- BSc (First Class Hons), Chemical Engineering, University of Glasgow
- MS, Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
- PhD, Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Research Summary
Jost Wendt is internationally recognized for his wide-ranging research on reduction of emissions from combustion processes. His research within academia, industry and EPA laboratories, has led to ‘reburning’ for NOx control, to mitigation of waste incinerator emissions through control of ‘transient puffs’ and ‘rogue droplets’, to the management of fine particle and toxic metal emissions using sorbents.
Awards and Honors
Jost is Past Chair (2009) of the Environmental Division of the AIChE, Fellow of the AIChE and Fellow of the Combustion Institute. He has 50 years of experience in theoretical and experimental combustion research. He is the recipient of the 2004 Lawrence K. Cecil Award, the 2009 Pioneer Award by the ASME/IT3 and was an Eminent Visitor to the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2002. In 2009 he was awarded the Bianzhong or “Chime Bell” Prize for Service to Huazhong Province, China.