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About the Author

Dr. Prabir Basu, founding President of Greenfield Research Incorporated,
a private research and development company in Canada that specializes
in gasification and torrefaction, is an active researcher and designer of
biomass energy conversion systems. Dr. Basu holds a position of professor
in Mechanical Engineering Department and is head of Circulating Fluidized
Bed Laboratory at Dalhousie University, Halifax. His current research interests
include frontier areas, chemical looping gasification, torrefaction, and biomass
cofiring among others.
Professor Basu is also the founder of the prestigious triennial International
Conference series on Circulating Fluidized Beds, Fluidized Bed Systems
Limited that specializes on design, training, and investigative services on
fluidized-bed boilers.
Professor Basu has been working in the field of energy conversion and
the environment for more than 30 years. Prior to joining the engineering
faculty at Dalhousie University (formerly known as the Technical University
of Nova Scotia), he worked with both a government research laboratory and
a boiler manufacturing company.
Dr. Basu’s passion for the transformation of research results into industrial
practice is well known, as is his ongoing commitment to spreading advanced
knowledge around the world. He has authored more than 200 research papers
and 7 monographs in emerging areas of energy and environment, some of
which have been translated into Chinese, Italian and Korean. He is well-
known internationally for providing expert advices on circulating fluidized-bed
boilers and conducting training courses on biomass conversion and fluidized
bed boilers to industries and universities across the globe.

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