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Avraam
Karagiannidis
Aristotle
University Thessaloniki
Department
of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering
8th
floor, Building D
University
campus
Box
483
GR
- 54124 Thessaloniki
Greece
T.:
+30 310 996011
Fax:
+30 310 996012
http://aix.meng.auth.gr
makis@aix.meng.auth.gr
The
Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering belongs to the Energy Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Aristotle
University Thessaloniki, Greece. Founded
in 1990, the Laboratory is responsible for eleven pre-graduate courses in the
Mechanical Engineering Department, while also supervising about ten
doctoral candidates in the frame of their post-graduate
studies. Furthermore,
it has a long record of research and consulting activities, both
at national and international level. The staff of the Laboratory includes
eight senior scientists, twenty four
young researchers and seven technical and administrative members. More than 90%
of the research funds of the Laboratory originate from competitive
programmes of the European Commission.
The total turn over for the year 2000 is estimated to approximately 750 thousand EUR.
The
Laboratory's consulting services mostly refer to the participation at EIA
studies. It also supports public authorities and the private sector within its
area of activities. In the frame of its consulting
services the Laboratory is also significantly involved in the various activities
of the European Topic
Centre on Air Quality which is part of the European Environment Agency.
The Laboratory's primary research work is in the areas of
Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering.
The
Laboratory’s primary research work is in the areas of:
Energy
Systems. Research is focused in
the following fields: (a) Description, analysis and evaluation of energy
technologies. (b) Rational use of energy in the industrial and domestic sectors.
(c) Use of solid waste and biomass for energy production. (d) Renewable energy
systems development. (e) Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) applications for energy
systems. (f) Analysis and implementation of alternative financing schemes in the
energy sector.
Environmental
Engineering. Research is
conducted in the following areas: (a) Simulation of transport and chemical
transformation of pollutants in the atmosphere with the use of advanced air
quality models. (b) Assessment of various measures for reducing air pollution
levels. (c) Analysis of the impact of industrial activities and major public
works on air quality. (d) Management and recycling of solid wastes. (e)
Development and application of environmental management systems (ISO 14000
series, EMAS, LCA). (f) Integrated environmental assessment in urban areas with
the use of informatics technologies. (g) Multimedia application in
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies.
The
Laboratory’s consulting services mostly refer to the participation at EIA
studies. It also supports public authorities and the private sector within its
area of activities. In the frame of its consulting services the Laboratory is
also significantly involved in the various activities of the European Topic
Centre on Air and Climate Change, which is part of the European Environment
Agency.
Contribution
to CARiMan :
Responsible
for
B.4.3
and B.8.3 / D5 Emergency
management training and education portal (EMATEP)
Principally, we are very much interested to participate and actively contribute
in CARiMan: Myself, I am currenlty involved in a
nationally-funded project on seismic risk management (SRM-LIFE) and we
have had a number of risk-related projects in our Laboratory. Still, a
lot of thinks have to be clarified internally at our university concerning NoE
(as we now experience on the basis of the first approved NoE that we are
involved in), since it is something completely new for everybody at the
administration! However, the deadline of October 15, 2003, lets some significant
available time, which is however not too much, particularly in view of the
summer season.
Short
description of the organisation
The
Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering belongs to the Energy Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Aristotle
University Thessaloniki, Greece. Founded
in 1990, the Laboratory is responsible for eleven pre-graduate courses in the
Mechanical Engineering Department,
while also supervising about ten doctoral candidates in the frame of their
post-graduate studies. Furthermore,
it has a long record of research and consulting activities, both at national and international level. The Laboratory's consulting
services mostly refer to the participation at EIA studies. It
also supports public authorities and the private sector within its
area of activities. In the frame of its consulting
services the Laboratory is also significantly involved in the various activities
of the European Topic Centre on Air
Quality which is part of the European Environment Agency.
The Laboratory's primary research work is in the areas of
Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering.
CV
of the partners
1)
Avraam Karagiannidis
Avraam
Karagiannidis is Assistant Professor on Thermal Processes at the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT), since 2003.
He works mainly on: (a) treatment and integrated management of solid wastes, (b)
location of noxious-obnoxious facilities, allocation of flows and impact
assessment, (c) energy conservation and ulitization of waste heat, and (d)
multicriterial decision support on energetic and environmental applications. He
is the head of the Solid Waste Management group at the Laboratory of Heat
Transfer and Environmental Engineering at AUT since 1994 and has participated in
several national and international research projects since 1991. He is the
author and co-author of more than 70 scientific publications and a member of the
following associations: Hellenic Technical Chamber, Hellenic Solid Waste
Management Association, Hellenic Society of Operational Research. He has served
as reviewer for international peer-review journals and as scientific committee
member for international conferences.
2)
Anna Xirogiannopoulou
Anna
Xirogiannopoulou is a Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT), since 2000. She works
mainly on: (a) waste collection systems, (b) PAYT systems (c) material recycling
(c) integrated management of solid wastes, (d) location of noxious-obnoxious
facilities, (c) energy conservation and utilization of waste heat. She is a
member of the Solid Waste Management group at the Laboratory of Heat Transfer
and Environmental Engineering at AUT since 2000 and, she has participated in
several national and international research projects. She is the author and
co-author of several scientific publications and a member of the Hellenic
Technical Chamber and the Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association.
3)
George Perkoulidis
George
Perkoulidis is Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT), since 1996. He works mainly on: (a)
thermal treatment and integrated management of solid wastes, (b) location of
solid waste management facilities (transfer stations, material recovery
facilities, waste-to-energy facilities, landfills), allocation of wastes’ and
residues’ flows and impact assessment and (c) multicriterial decision support
on integrated solid waste management systems. He is member of the Solid Waste
Management group at the Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental
Engineering at AUT since 1996 and has participated in several national and
international research projects since then. He is the author and co-author of
scientific publications and a member of the following associations: Technical
Chamber of Greece, Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association, Hellenic Society
of Operational Research, Permanent Committee for Ecology and Environment
Protection of Technical Chamber of Greece (Section of Central Macedonia). He has
served as reviewer for international peer-review journal.
4)
Athina Kaprara
Athina
Kaprara is a research engineer at the Lab. of Heat Transfer and Environmental
Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, since March
2000, as member of the Environmental Informatics and Applications group. She
holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Medical Informatics. She
works mainly in the field of Environmental information systems, utilizing
cross-platform and web-based application design and development. She also works
in mathematical modelling of environmental problems, participating in a number
of international research projects
Publications
(<10)
Karatzas
K., Papadopoulos A., N. Moussiopoulos, E. Kalognomou and A. Bassoukos (2000),
Development of a hierarchical system for the teletransmission of environmental
and energy data, Telematics and
Informatics 17, 239-249.
Johansen,
P. H.; Karatzas, K.; Lindberg, J.E.; Peinel. G.,
Rose, Th. (2001). Citizen-centred information dissemination on multimodal
information channels and GIS, Proceedings
of the “Sustainability in the Information Society”-15th International
Symposium for Environmental Protection, L. Hilty and P. Gilgen eds., Part 1:
Impacts and Applications, pp. 271-278, ISBN 3-89518-370-9.
Karatzas
K., Moussiopoulos N. and Papadopoulos A. (2001), Web-based tools for
environmental management, Environmental
Management and Health (now Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal)
12(4), 356-363.
Karatzas
K., Moussiopoulos N., Fedra K., Lohmeyer A and Kouroumlis Ch. (2001), A
multimedia application for EIA studies, IEEE
Multimedia 8, Νo. 4, 71-75
Τh.
Slini, K. Karatzas and N. Moussiopoulos (2002), Statistical analysis of
environmental data as the basis of forecasting: and air quality application,
The Science of the Total Environment 288, 227-237.
A.
Kaprara, K. Karatzas, N.
Moussiopoulos and L. Viras (2003), Investigating week-end air quality
observations with the aid of Fourier analysis in Athens, Greece, Int.
J. Environment and Pollution 19, No 2, pp. 171-176
K.
Karatzas, A. Bassoukos, A. Kaprara, A. Masouras, Th. Slini, J. Papaioannou and N. Moussiopoulos
(2003), Environmental Informatics and Urban Air Quality Management Systems, 5th
International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS 2003), May
25-27, Semmering, Austria, Environmental Software Systems Vol. 5, (Schimak G.,
Swayne D., Quinn N. and Denzer R., eds), 134-146, International Federation for
Information Processing (ISBN: 3-901882-16-2).
N.
Moussiopoulos, K. Karatzas, G. Endregard, K. Fedra, R. Friedrich, P.H. Johansen,
L. Kalognomou, A. Karppinen, P.H. Kraggerud, J. Kukkonen,
S. Larssen, F. de Leeuw, A. Lohmeyer, Ch. Naneris, D. Nicklass, G.
Papaioannou, G. Peinel, T. Pulles, S. Reis, Th. Rose, M. Sedlmayr and D. van den
Hout (2003). Environmental Services and Data Brokerage Portal: ENV-e-CITY in
action, in Proceedings of “The
Information Society and Enlargement of the European Union”-17th International
Cenference Informatics for Environmental Protection, A. Gnauck and R.
Heinrich eds., Part 2: Applications, Workshops, Posters, pp. 652-659, ISBN
3-89518-440-3.
K.
Karatzas, A. Masouras, A. Kaprara, A.
Bassoukos, Ι. Papaioannou, Th. Slini and N. Moussiopoulos (2004),
Environmental Information Systems and the Concept of Environmental Informatics,
chapter of the book Environmental Online Communication, Advanced Information and
Knowledge Processing Series (A. Scharl, ed.), Springer, London, in press
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