This year’s recipient of the
Environmental Technical Award and Roy F. Weston prize is Arun V. Someshwar. In
addition to an engraved plaque, lapel pin, and complimentary hotel
accommodations to the PEERS Conference, Arun will also receive $1000. The award
will be presented at the opening session of the conference on Sept. 15 in
Tacoma, Wash.
Arun obtained a B. Tech. in
Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India
in 1976, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State
University in 1982.
Arun has been working with the
National Council for Air & Stream Improvement (NCASI) at their Newberry
(Gainesville), FL office since 1989 and is currently an NCASI Fellow. Prior to
joining the council, Arun served as an assistant professor of chemical
engineering at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH.
Over the past two decades at
NCASI, Arun has conducted and supervised several studies pertinent to the
Forest. Products Industry (FPI) covering a wide range of topics such as
characterization of NOx, SO2 and other criteria pollutants from pulping,
recovery and combustion sources in the FPI, characterization of a wide range of
“air toxics,” including their formation and emission from various
combustion/non-combustion FPI sources, and characterization of
criteria/non-criteria pollutant formation and emission from alternative fuels
utilized in the FPI.
Arun is also responsible for
maintaining the NCASI air emissions databases for air toxics and criteria
pollutants, and the dissemination of critical information on issues related to
SARA 313, NPRI, and CDR (chemical data rule) reporting.
