ECOS 2026: Prof. Bejan, you developed outstanding research activities in different areas of Engineering Thermodynamics with an emphasis to Entropy Generation Minimization. Which are the aspects that must be further investigated in this field? Prof. Adrian Bejan: I do not think of gaps or areas that need to be investigated. Ideas are mental images. They […]
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ECOS 2026: Prof. Valero, you have promoted over the years strong emphasis on the efficient use of resources with an unified approach to energy and materials. Which are the main advantages of such an approach? Antonio Valero: We extract minerals, water and energy from the ecosphere, poetically known as Nature. Although the exergy of minerals
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ECOS 2026: Prof. Tsatsaronis, the need to address economics from the engineering perspective has a long tradition because, it was a need to make proper estimations of costs in terms of investments and operation of large technological facilities. What was in your opinion, the crucial point when thermoeconomics became a scientific research field? G.T.: Engineers
“I remember with a great pleasure my post doc research on titanium aluminides. It took decades for developing the manufacturing processes but, today these intermetallic compounds are used in jet engines.”
ECOS 2026: Professor Enrico Sciubba, you are well known for your contributions to Applied Thermodynamics or Engineering Thermodynamics. An example of methods that have been developed over the years was coined as Exergy Modeling, Analysis and Optimization where you and many other scientists have contributed and the results were outstanding. In the last decade, there
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What we see in the picture is the famous Saturn V rocket that made possible the Moonshot with Apollo Program in early 60ies. From a scientific and technical point of view, Saturn V was a masterpiece that was synthesizing the knowledge and technology of that time to concentrate as much energy as possible to win
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