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xvi About the authors

Oleksandr Redko is Professor, Head of the Depart-
ment of Heat and Gas Supply, Ventilation and the
Use of Waste Heat Recovery (GSP and UWHR)
of the Kharkov National University of Construction
and Architecture (KNUCA), Thermal Physics Engi-
neer, Odessa Technological Institute of Refrigera-
tion Industry. The degree of Candidate of Science
(PHD) was obtained at the Institute of Natural Gases
(Moscow), the degree of Doctor of Technical Sci-
ences (D.S.) at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute.
In KNUCA he has been teaching for over 40 years;
for 30 years he has headed the department. He is the
author of more than 250 articles in various scientific
journals, 35 patents and five books on heat transfer
and combustion of solid fuels in a fluidized bed,
low-temperature processes of energy conversion and building thermal physics. He
supervised the work of many postgraduate students in writing dissertations PHD and
D.S. He is a member of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine. He is a member
of the editorial boards of many scientific and technical collections and journals. For
many years he has advised and managed projects on the use of waste heat utilization
systems of industrial enterprises. Projects were implemented in the systems of munic-
ipal heat supply and heat generation. After retirement in 2008, he continues to work.

Ronald DiPippo is Chancellor Professor Emer-
itus, Mechanical Engineering, University of Mas-
sachusetts Dartmouth (UMD). He earned his
ScB, ScM and PhD in engineering at Brown Uni-
versity. He taught courses as a visiting lecturer/
researcher at Brown U., Cornell U., MIT, U.
Nevada Reno, and U. Akureyri (Iceland). He has
delivered invited keynote lectures in El Salvador,
Italy and Japan, is a long-time Associate Editor
for Geothermics, and a reviewer for many journals.
He has over 130 articles in a various journals, writ-
ten or edited seven books on geothermal power
generation, contributed to several science/engi-
neering handbooks, and served as a geothermal
advisor to several countries, including Costa
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Kenya. The Third Edition of his book, Geothermal
Power Plants, has been translated into Chinese. He has also conducted research into
the thermophysical properties of fluids and ground-source heat pumps. He has pro-
vided consulting services to many companies and national labs in the U.S. At
UMD, he taught for 37 years, was chair of the ME department for a total of 14 years,
president of the Faculty Senate for four years, and Associate Dean of Engineering for
three years before retirement in 2004.