Stays, experiments, lectures or
meeting abroad
1. French Government Scholarship at the Centre de Recherche sur la Physique des Hautes Températures (CRPHT), CNRS, Orleans, 11 months, 1969
2.
Six-week
stay at the CRPHT, CNRS, Orleans, 1971
3.
Six-week
stay as a guest researcher at National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.,
1973
4.
Seven-week
stay at the CRPHT in Orleans, 1974
5.
Short
stay at the University of Orleans, 1 week, 1976
6.
Short
stay at the University of Orleans, 1 week, 1977
7.
Nine-month
stay at the University of Orleans as the Maître de Conférence Associé (visiting
professor), 1977-78
8.
Short
visit at the Groupe de Plasma, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, 3 days, 1980
9.
Two-week
stay at the Mineral Resources Research Center, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, 1980
10.
Visiting
Professor at the University of Orleans, France, 1981-1988
11.
Three-week
stay at the Mineral Resources Research Center, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, 1984
12.
One-week
stay at the W. Handenwanger (Technische Keramik), West Berlin, 1985
13.
Two-month
stay at the Département de Génie Chimique, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec,
1986
14.
Seminar
on "The SulfArc process of H2S abatement for geothermal (and
not only) systems", ENEL, Italy, 1988
15.
One-week
stay at the Mineral Resources Research Center, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, 1988
16.
Short
visit at the Plasma, Group of the University of Valladolid, Spain, 3 days, 1989
17.
Short
visit and seminar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD, 1990
18.
One-week
stay and work at the Proler International Co., Houston, Texas, 1991
19.
Short
visit at the Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Warsaw, 3 days, 1991
20.
Short
visit at the University and the Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic,
3 days, 1991
21.
Short
visit at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Department of Hydrogen
Energetics, Moscow, 4 days, 1992
22.
Short
visit at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2 days, 1992
23.
Experimental
work at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Department of Hydrogen
Energetics, Moscow, 8 days, 1992
24.
Short
visit at the Loughborough University of Technology, England, 2 days, 1992
25.
Short
stay at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Lagos, 6 days, 1992
26.
Short
visit at a sulphur-containing gas field installation, Poland, 4 days, 1992
27.
Short
visit and work at a sulphur-containing gas field installations, Poland, 4 days,
1993
28.
Lecture
on "Plasma Assisted Gas Clean-up" for Advanced Technology Study
Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, 1993
29.
Lecture
on "Plasma Assisted Flue-Gas SOx Reduction to Elemental Sulphur",
Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1993
30.
Visit
and lecture for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Lagos, 1994
31.
Lecture
for the Institute for Environmentally Compatible Process Technology,
Saarbrücken, Germany, 1995
32.
Lecture
for the Mobil Gas, Dallas, Texas, 1996
33.
Experimental
work and lecture for the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, 3 days, 1996
34.
Lecture
for the Mobil North Sea, London, 1997
35.
Short
stay at McDonald Engineering, Calgary, Alberta, 4 days, 1997
36.
Short
visit at the Sherbrooke University, Quebec, 3 days 1997
37.
Short
visit at the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, 3 days, 1998
38.
Short
visit at the Carbon Resources Ltd., Houston, TX, 5 days, 1998
39.
Short
visit at the Novocherkassk Plant of Synthetic Products, Novocherkassk, Russia,
3 days, 1998
40.
Short
visit at the Carbon Resources Ltd., Houston, TX, 5 days, 1998
41.
Short
visit at the "Bettini" plant, Monte Marenzo, Italy, 1998
42.
Short
visit at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Lagos, 5 days, 1998
43.
Gliding
Arcs process as plasma enhanced tar cracker - "Proof of Principle"
tests on November 1999 (2 days) in ECN - Petten (Netherlands)
44.
Short
visit and lecture at the Institute of Low-Temperature Plasma, Greifswald,
Germany, 2 days, 1999
45.
Visit
and meetings with several petroleum companies in Calgary, Alberta, 1 week, 1999
46.
Short
visit at the Novocherkassk Plant of Synthetic Products, Novocherkassk, Russia,
3 days, 1999
47.
Work
on demonstration GlidArc-II reactor at ECN, Holland, twice, 5 days, 1999
48.
Implementation
of GlidArc reactor in Institute of Low Temperature Plasma in Greifswald
(Germany), 3 days, 2000
49.
Lecture
at the "Norsk-Hydro" Research Centre, Porsgrunn, Norway, 2 days, 2000
50.
Short
visit in Moscow and meetings with some scientists and engineers from Kurchatov
Institute, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Metallurgy R&D from
Tula, and Fast Engineering Co., 3 days, 2000
51.
Short
visit in Oroboros AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2 days, 2000
52.
Stays
and consultancy for Synergy Technologies Corporation, Calgary, Alberta, total
114 days in 9 visits during 2000
53.
Visit
in Technical University of Iasi and University of Iasi (Romania), 4 days, 2001
54.
Short
visit in Choren GmbH, Freiberg, Germany, 3 days, 2001
55.
Stays
and consultancy for Synergy Technologies Corporation, Calgary, Alberta, total
127 days in 11 visits during 2001
56.
Gliding
Arcs process as plasma enhanced tar cracker, Second sessions of tests, in ECN,
Petten, Netherlands 3 days, 2001
57.
Short
visit in Ceramatec, Salt Lake City, USA, 3 days, 2002
58.
Stays
and consultancy for Synergy Technologies Corporation, Conroe, Texas, total 56
days in 6 visits, 2002
59.
One-day
visit in Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, 2003
60.
Four
visits/works (total 30 days) in WESCO, Texas, April – November 2003
61.
Four
days work in Utah, USA, December 2003
62.
Four
days work in Utah, USA, February 2004
63.
Three
days work at Webasto, Germany, January 2005
64.
One-week
work in Utah, USA, February/March 2005
65.
Two
weeks work at McMinville Electric Systems, Tennessee, June/July 2005
66.
Two
weeks work at Biomass Energy Foundation, Golden, CO, November 2005.
67.
Two
days work at Oroboros AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, December 2005
68.
One
week work in Sweden, June 2006
69.
3-days
stay at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (opponent of Dewi
Tristanini Ph.D. thesis on Fischer Tropsch synthesis as well as presenting
seminar on Hydrogen and Syngas generation using plasma technologies), October
2006
70.
One-week
stay at Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland; seminar on Hydrogen and
Syngas generation using plasma technologies), February 2007
71.
Four-days
stay in Utah, USA, March 2007
72.
Four-days
work in Sweden, May 2007
73.
Seminar
on "GlidArc Technologies" for Statoil Research Center, Trondheim,
Norway, September 2007
74.
One-week
stay & SynFuel tests in Utah, USA, October 2007
75.
One-week
stay & glycerol reforming tests at Florida Syngas, FL, USA, Nov.-Dec. 2008
76.
6-days
stay and work at Ceramatec Inc., Utah, USA, February 2009
77.
2-days
work at dept. of Energy and process Engineering, Trondheim, Norway, March 2009
78.
Four-days
experimentation of sulphur compounds removal in Sfax's plant of super phosphate,
Tunisia, April 2009
79.
Ten-days
visit and work in Alabama chicken-farms and related industrial plants and in
Florida Syngas, May 2009
80.
Two
days "kick-off" meeting and visit in Budapest and Polgardy (Hungary),
European program "Protector", June 2009
81.
10-days
tests and consultancy at Ceramatec, Utah, August 2009