Dr. P Abdul Salam of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has won the Thomson Reuters Thailand Frontier Researcher Award for 2016. The award was granted “in recognition ofpioneering a new frontier in research, based on core papers comprising the world’s top 1% ofHighly Cited Papers in the field of Engineering.”
Dr. Salam, who serves as Associate Professor in Energy field of study
at AIT’s School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD),
received the award certificate during the Innovation Forum organized by
Thomson Reuters and Office of Higher Education Commission (OHEC),
Thailand. on 25 August 2016. He also presented his research activities
at AIT. The certificate was jointly awarded by the OHEC Secretary
General Aporn Kanvong, and Arto Valio, Vice President, ASEAN &
North Asia, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters.
The research paper was based on the research work with Dr. Salam’s
doctoral student at AIT, Dr. Jakkapong Udomsirichakorn, and it
focuses on the production of Hydrogen from biomass and municipal solid
waste. “Biomass is an important renewable energy source, and our
research interest in on the development of efficient and
environmentally sustainable biomass conversion technology,” Dr. Salam
said.
He mentioned that AIT’s research in this field began in the 1980’s
with the late Prof. Sribas C. Bhattacharya, and currently the institute
is working on pyrolysis, combustion, gasification, densification and
biofuel production. “We are working on the frontier of this technology
including tar reduction from synthesis gas and hydrogen production
through biomass gasification,” Dr. Salam added.
Eleven researchers from various fields including medicine,
engineering, physics, mathematics, and molecular biology hailing from
AIT, Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University, Chiang Mai
University, Kasetsart University, National for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Piyavate Hospital and King Mongkut’s University
of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) received certificates at the award
ceremony.
The Innovation Forum focused on global innovation trends, role of
leading universities in ASEAN and their collaboration with commercial
entities, and innovation among large corporations. A report on “ASEAN:
The Emerging Research and Innovation Hub” was also released on the
occasion.
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