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词条 Hans van Leeuwen
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Research

  3. Teaching

  4. Awards and honors

  5. References

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| name = Hans van Leeuwen
| alt = Hans van Leeuwen
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946}}
| birth_place = Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
| other_names = J. van Leeuwen, Johannes van Leeuwen
| alma_mater = University of Pretoria
| employer = Iowa State University
| known_for = Research
}}

Johannes "Hans" van Leeuwen (born 1946 in Gouda, South Holland) is educator, engineer, inventor, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is a emeritus professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University[1] and an entrepreneur in ethanol co-product development. His research and innovations have worked to solve various problems including, new water purification methods, a way of creating food and animal feed from waste, and a process in making the purest alcohol ever made.

Early life and education

van Leeuwen was born in 1946 in Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} He grew up in South Africa.[2] His experience growing up in South Africa helped him emotionally connect with the underprivileged living in developing countries and inspired his later work.[2] He studied at University of Pretoria in South Africa and received all his degrees from the same school, including his B.S. in 1975 in Chemical Engineering, his M.S. in 1979 in Engineering and Water Utilization, a Graduate Diploma of Tertiary Education in 1983 and a Doctorate in Environmental Engineering in 1988.[2][3]

Research

van Leeuwen's early research was focused on water reclamation from wastewater.[2] His research included the recovery of byproducts from liquid wastes and sediments, fungal treatment of food processing wastewater, and reuse applications of residues from water softening. He has several patents to his name. He was able to extend the life of activated carbon at least 7 times by using a microbial process.[2] As of 2009, this process was being used at the Goreangab Walter Reclamation Plant in Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia and at the South Caboolture Water Reclamation plant in Caboolture, Queensland, Australia.[2]

He worked on a ships ballast water treatment project with Darren Oemcke, Jake Perrins and Bill Cooper of the University of California, Irvine; and Russ Herwig of the University of Washington, Seattle.[2] They were attempting to keeping exotic species (such as zebra mussels) out of coastal waters through the disinfestation of ballast water with bromine production through rapid ozonation to avoid spreading feral species.[2] As of 2009, this innovation is now being used on international tankers.

Van Leeuwen's MycoMax process works by cultivating microbial filamentous fungi on leftovers from ethanol fermentation and distillation in order to create a high quality animal feed.[4] Growing fungus on the leftover corn found in ethanol production, provides for good energy feed for livestock animals (such as pigs and chickens), but can also reduce energy costs.[4] More importantly, the fungal biomass can serve as a source of valuable biochemicals, such as chitin, amino acids and bio-oils. Chitin, in turn, can be converted to chitosan and glucosamine, both valuable chemicals used in medicine, agriculture and water treatment.

Van Leeuwen's Mycofuel process is a two-stage bioconversion process in order to create bio-oil or biofuel from various scrapped plant matter.[2] This process could be a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative process to making ethanol from various plant materials,[2] This was work done in collaboration at Iowa State University with various colleagues and graduate students.

His physical-chemical alcohol purification process has found application in the production of an impurity-free vodka in Iowa, IngeniOz.[5][6]

Teaching

He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.[1]{{Better source|date=January 2019}} He has been a professor at ISU since 2000. Together with Prof. Balaji Narasimhan, he was given a Vlasta Klima Balloun Professorship at Iowa State University in 2010.[7] Previously he had been a professor at the University of New England, Australia, Griffith University, Australia, and the University of Pretoria.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Awards and honors

  • 2007 – Ethanol purification with ozonation and activated carbon, Grand Prize University Research, American Academy of Environmental Engineers[8]
  • 2008 – MycoMax fungal process for additional ethanol plant coproduct, R&D 100 Awards, R&D Magazine[9]
  • 2008 – Fungal process for ethanol plant stillage beneficiation, Grand Prize University Research, American Academy of Environmental Engineers[9]
  • 2009 – Bio-oil from an integrated fungal lignocellulosic biorefinery, Grand Prize University Research, American Academy of Environmental Engineers
  • 2009 – Innovator of the Year, R&D Magazine[10][11]
  • 2009 – Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa[12]
  • 2009 – Mycofuel fungal process for biodiesel from processing wastes, R&D 100 Awards, R&D Magazine
  • 2011 – Honor Award, Fungal pilot plant for animal feed production, Grand Prize University Research, American Academy of Environmental Engineers
  • 2012 – Global Grand Prize for Project Innovation Awards in Applied Research, International Water Association (IWA)[4]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://indico.fnal.gov/event/16325/registration/registrants?sessionShowNoValue=1&order=down&sortBy=Name#results|title=Workshop on Application of Electron Beam (EB) Technology to Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment|date=May 11, 2018|website=Indico.fnal.gov|access-date=2018-11-20}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.rdmag.com/article/2009/12/dr-hans-van-leeuwen-fighting-famine-fungi|title=Dr. Hans van Leeuwen: Fighting Famine with Fungi|last=Hock|first=Lindsay|date=2009-12-21|work=Research & Development Magazine, Vol. 51, No. 7|access-date=2018-11-20|pages=10–11|language=en}}
3. ^{{Cite book|title=Sustainable Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Value Added Engineering Applications|last=Gopalakrishnan|first=Kasthurirangan|last2=Brown|first2=Robert C.|last3=van Leeuwen|first3=J.|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|year=2011|isbn=1447123247|location=|pages=}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.allaboutfeed.net/Raw-Materials/Articles/2012/8/Fungus-produces-new-feed-type-from-corn-stillage-1051425W/|title=Fungus produces new feed type from corn stillage|work=AllAboutFeed|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-GB}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/dining/2015/04/24/ingenioz-pure-vodka/26251049/|title=A professor's quest for the purest vodka|work=Des Moines Register|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/isu-professor-develops-world-s-purest-vodka/article_bced1abc-39e1-11e4-9b5c-5be8918830c5.html|title=ISU professor develops 'world's purest' vodka|last=Malloy|first=Erin|date=2014-09-12|work=Iowa State Daily|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2010/11/30/vlasta-klima-balloun-professorships-benefit-wide-ranging-research/|title=Vlasta Klima Balloun professorships benefit wide-ranging research|author=Strawn, Jesse|date=November 30, 2010|website=news.engineering.iastate.edu}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.aaees.org/|title=The American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists|website=Aaees.org|accessdate=10 December 2018}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Improving_Ethanol_Production_Economics_122317849.html|title=Improving Ethanol Production Economics|last=|first=|date=2011-05-20|work=WOWT NBC Omaha|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en}}
10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.rdmag.com/article/2009/11/innovator-year-dr-hans-van-leeuwen|title=Innovator of the Year: Dr. Hans van Leeuwen|date=2009-11-02|work=Research & Development|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ccur.iastate.edu/news/newsletters/2010/winter10/winter10.pdf|title=van Leeuwen named R&D Magazine’s Innovator of the Year|last=Krapfl|first=Mike|date=2010|website=Center for Crops Utilization Research|publisher=Iowa State University|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://archive.inside.iastate.edu/pdf/09/091709.pdf|title=2009 University Convocation & Awards Ceremony|last=|first=|date=2009-09-17|website=Inside Iowa State newsletter|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-11-19}}
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7 : 1946 births|Living people|American bioengineers|Dutch engineers|Iowa State University faculty|People from Gouda, South Holland|University of Pretoria alumni

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