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J. (Hans) van Leeuwen is a professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University.

Biography

He was born Johannes van Leeuwen, in 1946 in Gouda, Netherlands. He lived in the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and has been residing in the United States since 2000. He is currently working as a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environment Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Together with Balaji Narasimhan, he was given The Vlasta Klima Balloun Professorship at Iowa State.[1]

Education

  • University of Pretoria (South Africa), 1988 - D Eng, environmental engineering
  • University of Pretoria, 1983 Graduate Diploma of Tertiary Education
  • University of Pretoria, 1979 - MS, engineering, water utilization
  • University of Pretoria, 1975 BS, chemical engineering.

Research

His research includes the recovery of byproducts from liquid wastes and sludges, fungal treatment of food processing wastewater, reuse applications of residues from water softening. He has several patents to his name. He has developed processes for purifying alcohol, creating a new product at ethanol plants, and keeping exotic species out of coastal waters. The purification of alcohol makes the world's purest vodka possible and Oz Spirits LLC, of which he is the founder, is launching a product based on this process involving ozone, activated carbon, and nanogold filtration. He developed a new animal feed, potentially a new human food source, by developing a process for cultivating fungi on corn processing leftovers, with a product, MycoMeal, being commercialized through MycoInnovations. His ozonation process disinfects ships' ballast waters and ensures that feral species are not introduced into ports by shipping and has been applied on oil tankers.

Awards and honors

  • Innovator of the Year, R&D Magazine, 2009 Earlier awardees: Larry Page,Google, Burt Rutan and Elon Musk, space pioneers
  • Global Award Applied Research, International Water Association, 2012
R&D 100 Awards as team leader
  • Mycofuel fungal process for biodiesel from processing wastes, 2009
  • MycoMax fungal process for additional ethanol plant coproduct, 2008
Grand Prize University Research – American Academy of Environmental Engineers
  • Fungal pilot plant for animal feed production, 2011, Honor Award
  • Bio-oil from an integrated fungal lignocellulosic biorefinery, 2009
  • Fungal process for ethanol plant stillage beneficiation, 2008
  • Ethanol purification with ozonation and activated carbon, 2007

Honorary member, Japan Industrial Water Association, 2002

References

  1. ^ http://www.abe.iastate.edu/who.../j-hans-van-leeuwen/
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