UMaine Professor Chosen as Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow
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ORONO — Adriaan van Heiningen, a University of Maine professor who holds the J. Larcom Ober Chair in Chemical Engineering, was recently inducted as a Fellow into the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Van Heiningen, whose pioneering research has been the catalyst for the proposed Old Town ethanol biorefinery project, joins 35 others who were honored by their peers in Montreal June 17 for their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.
“His groundbreaking fundamental research has led to profound changes in the pulp manufacturing industry and its environmental impact,” the academy says of van Heiningen, the founding director of the Dr. Jack McKenzie Limerick Pulp and Paper Centre at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. “He is recognized internationally as the leading proponent of the Integrated Forest Biorefinery for producing biofuels and biomaterials.”
The academy, established in 1987, is a member of the 25-country Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences.