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Nickolas John Themelis (born April 25, 1933) is an American scientist, inventor and Stanley Thompson professor emeritus of chemical metallurgy; founder and director of the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University.

  • Stanley‑Thompson Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
  • Founder, Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University
  • Founder, Global Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WtERT®)

Alma mater: BS in chemical engineering and PhD in chemical metallurgy (1961) from McGill University
Organization: National Academy of Engineering (U.S.) | American Society of Mechanical Engineers | Global WTERT Council

Nickolas John Themelis
Nickolas John Themelis

Biography

Nickolas John Themelis, scientist, inventor and professor at Columbia University, was born in Athens, Greece, on April 25, 1933. His parents were Emilia Liakopoulou, daughter of Ioannis and Elissavet of Pyrgos of Ilias and, later, Thessaloniki, and Yannis Themelis, son of Nikolaos and Elissavet Themelis of Alatsata (presently Alaçatı of Turkey) on the western shore of Asia Minor, sixteen kilometers across the Aegean Sea from the Greek island of Chios; the family was uprooted, along with another million Greeks, from Asia Minor to Greece in 1923. Yannis Themelis was a sergeant in the Greek army that invaded Turkey and led the family to safety in Chios and then Agrinion of Greece. He later became a  socialist and union organizer and, during the December 1944 communist insurgency, narrowly escaped capture and death in the hands of the Stalinists; his younger brothers, Dimitris and Themistocles were summarily executed by the communists (Yannis Karytsas).

In his teens, Nickolas became very active in the YMCA (XAN) and the Boy Scouts of Athens whom he represented at a 1949 international Jamboree in England. After finishing high school, at the end of the summer 1951, Nickolas crossed the Atlantic on the ocean liner Saturnia, landing in Halifax and from there by train to Montreal where he started his undergraduate studies at McGill University in September 1951.

At that time, his knowledge of English was basic and, as he recalled, the first page of the Physics textbook took a whole day. However, the move to McGill and Canada worked well because at the end of his five-year undergraduate program in chemical engineering he graduated on top of his 1956 class and received the British Association for Advancement of Science Medal for Great Distinction. During his studies at McGill, he had consecutive summer jobs at Dixie Royal Golf Club (Montreal), Steel Company of Canada (Hamilton), Imperial Oil Canada (Montreal), and International Paper (Ottawa). After his B.Eng., Themelis worked for a year at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute in Montreal and in September 1957 started on his graduate research studies under Prof. Bill Gauvin, with whom he maintained a life-long personal and professional relationship.

In 1959, Themelis was married to Doris Irwin, born on Manitoulin Island of Ontario, The couple had two children, Daphne Elisabeth Themelis, resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Alexander Nickolas Themelis, of Guelph, Ontario. After his divorce, he married Rina Lariviere, born in Hawkesbury, Ontario (now deceased); their son, Yannis Nickolas Themelis, was born in Stamford, Connecticut and is resident of Montreal. In 1990, Themelis married Liliana Nikolic, born in Mladenovac, Serbia. The couple reside in Manhattan but the family home is on the north shore of Cape Cod, at the historic town of Sandwich.

The subject of Themelis’ doctoral study was the rate phenomena between hydrogen and fine iron oxide particles moving through a high temperature reactor. A major finding was the correlation of time required for complete reduction with particle diameter. One of the experimental achievements was a two-wavelength pyrometer that measured the temperature of the reacting particles in flight. At completion of his experimental research at McGill, Themelis in December 1959 was engaged by Strategic Udy at Niagara Falls, Ontario, a company developing a process alternative to the iron blast furnace.

In 1961, Prof. Bill Gauvin was asked by Noranda Mines, then the largest Canadian copper company to form the Noranda Research Center. Gauvin invited his recent graduate to head the engineering division of the new research organization to be housed in a new building at Pointe Claire, Quebec. Themelis spent nearly ten years working at Noranda Research, as Director of the Engineering Division. During this period, he was inventor or co-inventor of fifteen patents, including the first continuous copper smelting and converting process, called the Noranda Process.

The Noranda Process

In the first part of his career, Prof. Themelis was Director of the Engineering Division of the Noranda Research Center in Pointe Claire where he invented and helped build the first continuous smelting and converting process, called the Noranda Process.

In the copper production technology used over centuries, copper ores and concentrates were smelted in “reverberatory” furnaces and the resulting “copper matte” was converted to copper in the following copper converting process. The basic idea of the Noranda process was to combine smelting and converting in the same reactor, thus avoiding the use of coal in the reverberatory and producing a high sulfur process gas suitable for the manufacture of sulfuring acid.  Several Noranda process plants were built in Canada, China, Australia, the U.S. and Canada. Since its inception, the Noranda process has reduced sulphur emissions to the atmosphere from copper smelting by millions of tons. The first plant, in Rouyn-Noranda, Canada is still operating at Noranda, Quebec, producing copper from a million tons of copper concentrates from Canada and Chile, as well from up to a hundred thousand tons of recycled electronic and electrical scrap.

Kennecott Corporation

In 1972, Kennecott Corporation, at the time the largest copper producer in the world, appointed Themelis as Vice President, Technology of its Copper Mining division, where he directed the operations of the Engineering, Research and Computing Centers, in Salt Lake City. During his tenure, Themelis led a company-wide improvement effort that brought together senior people in mining, mineral processing, smelting, and refining; also, Kennecott was named by IBM as a pioneer company in the use of computers. In 1978, Themelis was promoted to VP Technology of Kennecott Corporation, comprising Metal Mining, Chase Copper and Brass, and Quebec Iron and Titanium. During this period, Themelis also co-authored, with Prof. Julian Szekely of MIT, the pioneering textbook Rate Phenomena in Process Metallurgy. The research contributions of Themelis to metal extraction technology have been recognized by awards of both the Canadian and American Institutes of Mining and Metallurgy.

In 1980, Themelis was appointed Professor by Columbia University (New York City, U.S.A.) and in 1988 was elected to Stanley-Thompson Chair of Chemical Metallurgy.  He was Chair of the Henry Krumb School of Mines, the first mining school in the U.S., and founded Columbia’s Earth Engineering Center in 1996.  He introduced at Columbia the teaching of industrial ecology and in 1997 led the transformation of the Department of Mining, Mineral Processing and Metallurgy to the new engineering discipline of Earth and Environmental Engineering and was first Chair of the Department. The contributions of Prof. Themelis to engineering in the U.S. was recognized by his election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Themelis has been consultant to industry and government in the areas of process design and management of material resources, including a review of copper smelting plants and recommendations for improvements, for Hindustan Copper and member of a US-AID team advising the Minister of Environment of Thailand. He is member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, member of International Solid Wastes Association, the U.S. Air and Waste Management Association and the Sloid Wastes Association of North America.

Professor Themelis was appointed as Visiting Professor at Tohoku University (1993) and at the University of Limoges (France, summers of 1996-1999). He has been invited lecturer at the universities of Akita, Kyoto, and Tokyo, in Japan, the universities of Chile and Santiago (Chile), Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology, Technical University of Athens, Berlin and Clausthal universities (Germany), and several U.S. and Canadian universities.

Advancing Sustainable Waste Management

The global economic development has been accompanied by the generation of billions of tons of municipal solid wastes. A lot of effort has gone towards increasing recycling but the post-recycling residues remain a major urban problem and can be managed in only two ways: Landfilling or thermal treatment with recovery of energy, metals, and minerals, commonly called waste-to-energy (WTE). The WtERT organization was co-founded in 2003, by Prof. Themelis and Maria Zannes, President of the U.S. Energy Recovery Council, in recognition of the fact that very little academic or industrial research had been addressed to the WTE route, despite its many advantages regarding resource conservation and greenhouse gas emissions. The work of WtERT, started initially at the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University and has continued throughout the WtERT network, training of hundreds of engineers and scientists, worldwide. The contribution of Prof. Themelis to sustainable waste management has been recognized by awards of the Materials and Energy Recovery Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and by the Confederation of European Waste to Energy Plants (CEWEP) also one of the faculty winners of the Columbia University 2015 President’s Global Innovation Fund grants for the project titled, “Advancing Sustainable Waste Management in Latin America and Disseminating the Results to Other Developing Regions”. He was co-author of Recovery of Materials and Energy from Urban Wastes and of the waste management section of the IPCC 2015 Report on Climate Change.

Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology (WtERT)

Prof. Themelis is the founder and President Emeritus of the Global Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council (WtERT®), the foremost Non-for-Profit research association on Waste-to-Energy (WtE) worldwide, hosted at the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University, It bring together engineers and scientists from industry, government and Universities from several countries across the globe to collaborate together to advance both the economic and environmental performance of Waste-to-Energy technologies, and this includes both conservation of resources and environmental quality, and disseminate all research and findings to the general public.

Since the creation by Prof. Themelis in 1995 of the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University, the center has done several graduate studies of various facets of integrated waste management, the Institute came to the realization that, despite the importance of WtE technology to the US, there were no industrial or government research centres dedicated to advancing WtE technology. The only organization addressing the concerns of the US WtE facilities and of the major WtE companies was the Integrated Wastes Services Association (IWSA) formed in 1991 and Its role does not include R&D.

The WtERT organization was co-founded in 2002, by Prof. Themelis in recognition of the fact that very little academic or industrial research had been addressed to the WTE route, despite its many advantages regarding resource conservation and greenhouse gas emissions. The work of WtERT, started initially at the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University and has continued throughout the WtERT network, training of hundreds of engineers and scientists, worldwide.

A full list of about 300 publications by Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis, with links to original papers and books and inventor of twenty patents related to the extraction and refining of metals and other materials.

Methane generation in landfills

NJ Themelis, PA Ulloa

Renewable energy 32 (7), 1243-1257

Rate phenomena in process metallurgy

J Szekely, NJ Themelis

(No Title)

Quo vadis thermal spraying?

P Fauchais, A Vardelle, B Dussoubs

Journal of thermal spray technology 10, 44-66

Waste-to-energy: A review of the status and benefits in USA

CS Psomopoulos, A Bourka, NJ Themelis

Waste management 29 (5), 1718-1724

The 2016 thermal spray roadmap

A Vardelle, C Moreau, J Akedo, H Ashrafizadeh, CC Berndt, JO Berghaus, …

Journal of thermal spray technology 25, 1376-1440

Resource recovery from used rubber tires

T Amari, NJ Themelis, IK Wernick

Resources Policy 25 (3), 179-188

Assessment of the state of food waste treatment in the United States and Canada

JW Levis, MA Barlaz, NJ Themelis, P Ulloa

Waste management 30 (8-9), 1486-1494

Greening waste: Anaerobic digestion for treating the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes

K Ostrem, NJ Themelis

Earth Engineering Center Columbia University 200

A perspective on plasma spray technology

A Vardelle, C Moreau, NJ Themelis, C Chazelas

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 35, 491-509

Anisotropic elastoplastic bounding surface model for cohesive soils

HI Ling, D Yue, VN Kaliakin, NJ Themelis

Journal of engineering mechanics 128 (7), 748-758

Recycling metals for the environment

IK Wernick, NJ Themelis

Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 23 (1), 465-497

High-temperature corrosion in waste-to-energy boilers

SH Lee, NJ Themelis, MJ Castaldi

Journal of thermal spray technology 16, 104-110

Controlling particle injection in plasma spraying

M Vardelle, P Fauchais, A Vardelle, KI Li, B Dussoubs, NJ Themelis

Journal of Thermal Spray Technology 10, 267-284

An overview of the global waste-to-energy industry

NJ Themelis

Waste Management World, 40-48

Gas-liquid momentum transfer in a copper converter

JN Themelis

Trans. Metall. Soc. AIME 245, 2425-2433

Energy recovery from New York City municipal solid wastes

NJ Themelis, YH Kim, MH Brady

Waste Management & Research 20 (3), 223-233

Use of waste derived fuels in cement industry: a review

N Chatziaras, CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis

Management of Environmental Quality: an international journal 27 (2), 178-193

Transport and chemical rate phenomena

NJ Themelis

(No Title)

Technical and economic analysis of Plasma-assisted Waste-to-Energy processes

C Ducharme

Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University

Current influence of China’s ban on plastic waste imports

W Wang, NJ Themelis, K Sun, AC Bourtsalas, Q Huang, Y Zhang, Z Wu

Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy 1, 67-78

Heat generation and particle injection in a thermal plasma torch

A Vardelle, P Fauchais, B Dussoubs, NJ Themelis

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 18, 551-574

The state of garbage in America

R Van Haaren, N Themelis, N Goldstein

BioCycle 51 (10), 16-23

Review on fate of chlorine during thermal processing of solid wastes

P Lu, Q Huang, ACT Bourtsalas, NJ Themelis, Y Chi, J Yan

Journal of Environmental Sciences 78, 13-28

Material and energy balances in a large-scale aerobic bioconversion cell

NJ Themelis, YH Kim

Waste management & research 20 (3), 234-242

Dioxin emissions from municipal solid waste incinerators (MSWIs) in France

A Nzihou, NJ Themelis, M Kemiha, Y Benhamou

Waste management 32 (12), 2273-2277

The state of garbage in America

P Simmons, N Goldstein, SM Kaufman, NJ Themelis, J Thompson

BioCycle 47 (4), 26

LCA comparison of windrow composting of yard wastes with use as alternative daily cover (ADC)

R van Haaren, NJ Themelis, M Barlaz

Waste management 30 (12), 2649-2656

Coating generation: Vaporization of particles in plasma spraying and splat formation

M Vardelle, A Vardelle, KI Li, P Fauchais, NJ Themelis

Pure and Applied Chemistry 68 (5), 1093-1099

Correlations of electrical conductivity to slag composition and temperature

Q Jiao, NJ Themelis

metallurgical transactions B 19, 133-140

Use of non-recycled plastics and paper as alternative fuel in cement production

ACT Bourtsalas, J Zhang, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis, AN Karaiskakis

Journal of cleaner production 181, 8-16

Energy and economic value of nonrecycled plastics (NRP) and municipal solid wastes (MSW) that are currently landfilled in the fifty states

NJ Themelis, MJ Castaldi, J Bhatti, L Arsova

Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York

16th NATIONWIDE SURVEY-THE STATE OF GARBAGE IN AMERICA-Latest national data on municipal solid management–29 percent recycled and composted, 7 percent combusted in waste-to …

L Arsova, R Van Haaren, N Goldstein, SM Kaufman, NJ Themelis

BioCycle 49 (12), 22

A generalized rate equation for reduction of iron oxides

NJ Themelis

Trans. Metal. Soc. AIME 227, 290-300

The state of garbage in America

SM Kaufman, N Goldstein, K Millrath, NJ Themelis

BioCycle 45 (1), 31-31

Guidebook for the application of waste to energy technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean

NJ Themelis, MED Barriga, P Estevez, MG Velasco

Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University. Julho

Energy and economic value of municipal solid waste (MSW), including non-recycled plastics (NRP), currently landfilled in the fifty states

NJ Themelis, C Mussche

Earth Engineering Center 2014, 1-40

A screening life cycle metric to benchmark the environmental sustainability of waste management systems

SM Kaufman, N Krishnan, NJ Themelis

Environmental science & technology 44 (15), 5949-5955

Greenhouse gas impact of dual stream and single stream collection and separation of recyclables

GC Fitzgerald, JS Krones, NJ Themelis

Resources, Conservation and Recycling 69, 50-56

Combining anaerobic digestion and waste-to-energy

KM Ostrem, K Millrath, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 3736, 265-271

Potential for reducing global methane emissions from landfills, 2000-2030

E Matthews, NJ Themelis

Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium

The solubility of copper in slags

P Spira, NJ Themelis

JOM 21, 35-42

Hydrothermal liquefaction of three kinds of starches into reducing sugars

F Li, L Liu, Y An, W He, NJ Themelis, G Li

Journal of Cleaner Production 112, 1049-1054

Mixing and mass transfer phenomena in bottom-injected gas–liquid reactors

T Stapurewicz, NJ Themelis

Canadian metallurgical quarterly 26 (2), 123-128

Selective production of aromatics from waste plastic pyrolysis by using sewage sludge derived char catalyst

K Sun, NJ Themelis, ACT Bourtsalas, Q Huang

Journal of Cleaner Production 268, 122038

Municipal solid waste management and waste-to-energy in the United States, China and Japan

NJ Themelis, C Mussche

2nd international academic symposium on enhanced landfill mining, Houthalen …

The case for increasing the global capacity for waste to energy (WTE)

MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

Waste and Biomass Valorization 1, 91-105

Transport and chemical rate phenomena in plasma sprays

A Vardelle, NJ Themelis, B Dussoubs, M Vardelle, P Fauchais

High Temperature Material Processes: An International Quarterly of High …

Transport and chemical rate phenomena in plasma sprays

A Vardelle, NJ Themelis, B Dussoubs, M Vardelle, P Fauchais

High Temperature Material Processes: An International Quarterly of High …

Reduction of iron oxide in gas‐conveyed systems

NJ Themelis, WH Gauvin

AIChE Journal 8 (4), 437-444

Inventory of US 2012 dioxin emissions to atmosphere

H Dwyer, NJ Themelis

Waste management 46, 242-246

Use of alternative fuels in cement industry

N Chatziaras, CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Protection and …

Life cycle assessment of using powder and liquid precursors in plasma spraying: The case of yttria-stabilized zirconia

A Moign, A Vardelle, NJ Themelis, JG Legoux

Surface and Coatings Technology 205 (2), 668-673

Design of a materials recovery facility (MRF) for processing the recyclable materials of New York City’s municipal solid waste

AJ Dubanowitz

Columbia University

Theory and experience on corrosion of waterwall and superheater tubes of waste-to-energy facilities

DO Albina, NJ Themelis

Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering

Energy recovery from municipal solid wastes by gasification

A Klein, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 36657, 241-252

Gas injection in steelmaking: mechanism and effects

NJ Themelis, P Goyal

Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 22 (3), 313-320

Mathematical modelling of heat transfer during the melting of solid particles in a liquid slag or metal bath

Q Jiao, NJ Themelis

Canadian metallurgical quarterly 32 (1), 75-83

The Noranda process

NJ Themelis, GC McKerrow, P Tarassoff, GD Hallett

JOM 24, 25-32

Effects of affluence and population density on waste generation and disposal of municipal solid wastes

KO Matsunaga, NJ Themelis

Earth Engineering Center Report 1, 1-29

Deoxidation of Liquid Copper by a Submerged Gas Jet

NJ Themelis, PR Schmidt

AIME MET SOC TRANS 239 (9), 1313-1318

A basin-wide approach to dredged material management in New York/New Jersey Harbor

TH Wakeman, NJ Themelis

Journal of hazardous materials 85 (1-2), 1-13

Oxidation of metal droplets in plasma sprays

A Vardelle, P Fauchais, NJ Themelis

ASM International, Materials Park, OH (United States)

Analysis of thermal plasma-assisted waste-to-energy processes

C Ducharme, N Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 43932, 101-106

Thermal treatment review

NJ Themelis

Waste Management World 8 (4), 37-45

Effects of feed composition on boiler corrosion in waste-to-energy plants

DO Albina, K Millrath, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 3736, 99-109

The flash reduction of electric arc furnace dusts

L Wu, NJ Themelis

JOM 44, 35-39

A review of recent studies on copper smelting

JM Toguri, NJ Themelis, PH Jennings

Canadian metallurgical quarterly 3 (3), 197-220

Current MSW management and waste-to-energy status in the Republic of Korea

Y Seo

Columbia University: New York, NY, USA, 49-58

Using a direct method to characterize and measure flows of municipal solid waste in the United States

SM Kaufman, NJ Themelis

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 59 (12), 1386-1390

WTE plants installed in European cities: A review of success stories

P Chaliki, CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 27 (5), 606-620

Potential for combined heat and power and district heating and cooling from waste-to-energy facilities in the us–learning from the danish experience

P Ulloa

Columbia University: Fu Foundation of School of Engineering and Applied Science

Renewable energy systems

M Kaltschmitt, NJ Themelis, LY Bronicki, L Söder, LA Vega

Springer

Large scale aerobic composting of source separated organic wastes: A comparative study of environmental impacts, costs, and contextual effects

R van Haaren

Columbia University

Major sources of mercury emissions to the atmosphere: The US case

ACT Bourtsalas, NJ Themelis

Waste Management 85, 90-94

Mechanism of reduction of iron oxides

NJ Themelis, WH Gauvin

Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin 55, 444-456

The 2010 ERC directory of waste-to-energy plants

T Michaels

Energy Recovery Council

Anaerobic digestion of biodegradable organics in municipal solid waste

V Shefali, NJ Themelis

Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering in Columbia University

The better option-Anaerobic digestion of organic wastes in MSW

NJ Themelis, S Verma

Waste management world, 41-48

Volatilization of metal powders in plasma sprays

A Vardelle, M Vardelle, H Zhang, NJ Themelis, K Gross

Journal of thermal spray technology 11, 244-252

Copper recovery by flotation

KN Subramanian, NJ Themelis

JOM 24, 33-38

Examination of the fate of carbon in waste management systems through statistical entropy and life cycle analysis

S Kaufman, N Krishnan, E Kwon, M Castaldi, N Themelis, H Rechberger

Environmental science & technology 42 (22), 8558-8563

Effect of phase transformation and particle fragmentation on the flash reaction of complex metal sulfides

YH Kim, NJ Themelis

The reinhardt schuhmann international symposium on innovative technology and …

Small scale waste-to-energy technologies

C Ellyin, N Themelis

Columbia University

Feasibility analysis of waste-to-energy as a key component of integrated solid waste management in Mumbai, India

P Bhada

Master of Science in Earth Resources Engineering, Columbia University

Technical and economic analysis of pre-shredding municipal solid wastes prior to disposal

GC Fitzgerald, NJ Themelis

Unpublished MS thesis Columbia University, New York

Modeling of plasma spraying of two powders

B Dussoubs, A Vardelle, G Mariaux, P Fauchais, NJ Themelis

Journal of thermal spray technology 10, 105-110

Process for continuous smelting and converting of copper concentrates

N Themelis

US Patent 3,832,163

LCA comparison of electroplating and other thermal spray processes

A Moign, A Vardelle, JG Legoux, NJ Themelis

Expanding Thermal Spray Performance to New Markets and Applications, 1207-1212

Recycling in a Megacity

NJ Themelis, CE Todd

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 54 (4), 389-395

Recovery of selenium from copper anode slimes

WA Dutton, AJ Van Den Steen, NJ Themelis

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 2, 3091-3097

Methane emissions from landfills

H Zhao, N Themelis, A Bourtsalas, WR McGillis

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Waste to energy (WTE): an introduction

NB Klinghoffer, NJ Themelis, MJ Castaldi

Waste to energy conversion technology, 3-14

Pyrometallurgy near the end of the 20th century

NJ Themelis

JOM 46, 51-57

A survey of worldwide copper converter practices

RE Johnson, NJ Themelis, G Eltringham

Copper and Nickel Converters, 1-32

Integrated management of solid wastes for New York City

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 35944, 69-86

Scrap melting

NJ Themelis, LE Olds, MS Udy

US Patent 3,385,494

A guidebook for sustainable waste management in Latin America

CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis

Proceedings of the International Resource Recovery Congress Waste-to-Energy …

Rate phenomena in the Outokumpu flash smelting reaction shaft

NJ Themelis, JK Makinen, NDH Munroe

Physical Chemistry of Extractive Metallurgy, 289-309

Performance of structural concrete using Waste-to-Energy (WTE) combined ash

Y Tian, ACT Bourtsalas, S Kawashima, S Ma, NJ Themelis

Waste Management 118, 180-189

Greenhouse gases emission reduction potential in Greece by implementing WTE facilities in strategically selected urban areas

CS Psomopoulos, C Stavroulakis, V Stavropoulos, NJ Themelis

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 22 (7a), 2042-2047

Control of heat generation during composting

BRIN COMPOSTING

BioCycle 46 (1), 28

Emissions from Waste-to-Energy: A comparison with coal-fired plants

DO Albina, NJ Themelis

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 37157, 169-184

Flow phenomena in reverberatory smelting

P SPIRA, NJ THEMELIS

TRANS METALL SOC AIME 236 (6), 821-828

Materials and energy recovery at six European MBT plants

ACT Bourtsalas, NJ Themelis

Waste Management 141, 79-91

A rapidly emerging WTE technology: circulating fluid bed combustion

Q Huang, Y Chi, NJ Themelis

Conference proceedings, international thermal treatment technologies (IT3 …

Capture and utilization of landfill gas

NJ Themelis, P Ulloa

Renewable Energy, 77-81

State of garbage in America-data and methodology assessment.

NJ Themelis, SM Kaufman

Substance and perceptions of environmental impacts of dioxin emissions

P Deriziotis, NJ Themelis

Proceedings of the 11th North American Waste-to-Energy Conference, ASME …

Correlation of geometric factor for slag resistance electric furnaces

Q Jiao, NJ Themelis

Metallurgical Transactions B 22, 183-192

Principles of sulfide smelting

NJ Themelis, HH Kellogg

Advances in Sulfide Smelting, 1, 1-29

Current state and potential for increasing plastics recycling in the US

JA Bhatti

Wtert, Columbia University

Fly ash characteristics from waste-to-energy facilities and processes for ash stabilization

E Kalogirou, N Themelis, P Samaras, A Karagiannidis, ST Kontogianni

ISWA World Congress

Potential for reducing the capital costs of WTE facilities

NJ Themelis, S Reshadi

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 48807, 245-251

Modeling of waste-to-energy combustion with continuous variation of the solid waste fuel

M Nakamura, H Zhang, K Millrath, NJ Themelis

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 37157, 69-78

Mercury emissions from high-temperature sources in the NY/NJ Hudson-Raritan basin

NJ Themelis, AF Gregory

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 35944, 205-216

Gaseous refining of anode copper

P Goyal, NJ Themelis, WA Zanchuk

JOM 34, 22-28

MASS- AND HEAT-TRANSFER PHENOMENA IN THE REDUCTION OF CUPRIC OXIDE BY HYDROGEN

NJ Themelis, JC Yannopoulos

TRANS METALL SOC AIME 236, 414-420

Waste management in Greece and potential for waste-to-energy

E Kalogirou, A Bourtsalas, M Klados, NJ Themelis

Waste to Energy: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing and Transition …

Technical and economic impacts of pre-shredding the MSW feed to moving grate WTE boilers

GC Fitzgerald, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 48807, 237-243

Measurement of particle size and shape of New York City Municipal solid waste and combustion residues using image analysis

M Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1-4

Removal of antimony from copper by injection of soda ash

TT Stapurewicz, NJ Themelis

Metallurgical Transactions B 21, 967-975

Pyrometallurgical recovery of copper from slag material

JW Donaldson, SN Sharma, NJ Themelis

US Patent 4,032,327

Catalytic co-pyrolysis of polycarbonate and polyethylene/polypropylene mixtures: Promotion of oil deoxygenation and aromatic hydrocarbon formation

K Sun, W Wang, NJ Themelis, ACT Bourtsalas, Q Huang

Fuel 285, 119143

Stochastic and physical modeling of motion of municipal solid waste (MSW) particles on a waste-to-energy (WTE) moving grate

MR Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

International journal of thermal sciences 49 (6), 984-992

Developments in thermal treatment technologies

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 42932, 85-92

Waste in a land of plenty-Solid waste generation and management in the US

NJ Themelis, SM Kaufman

Waste Management World, 23-30

Management of Municipal Solid Waste in Santiago, Chile: Assessing Waste-to-Energy Possibilities

P Estevez

Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University

In-flight oxidation and evaporation of plasma-sprayed iron particles

H Zhang, A Vardelle, NJ Themelis

High Temperature Material Processes: An International Quarterly of High …

Direct process for smelting of lead sulphide concentrates to lead

NJ Themelis, JR Rawling

US Patent 3,663,207

Stabilization of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) fly ash for disposal in landfills or use as cement substitute

Y Tian, NJ Themelis, D Zhao, ACT Bourtsalas, S Kawashima

Waste Management 150, 227-243

The role of energy recovery from wastes in the decarbonization efforts of the EU power sector

CS Psomopoulos, K Kiskira, K Kalkanis, HC Leligou, NJ Themelis

IET Renewable Power Generation 16 (1), 48-64

Waste to energy (WTE) in China: from latecomer to front runner

NJ Themelis, W Ma

Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy 3, 267-274

Methane generation and capture of US landfills

NJ Themelis, AC Bourtsalas

J. Environ. Sci. Eng. A 10, 199-206

The impact from the implementation of Waste to Energy to the economy. A macroeconomic approach for the trade balance of Greece

CS Psomopoulos, I Venetis, NJ Themelis, TEI Piraeus

Fresen Environ Bull 23 (11)

Potential for energy generation in Greece by combustion of as received or pre-processed (RDF/SRF) municipal solid wastes

CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis

2nd international conference on environmental management, engineering …

The case for WTE as a renewable source of energy

NJ Themelis, K Millrath

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 3736, 15-22

A Waste-to-Energy Power Plant With CO2 Sequestration

A Klein, H Zhang, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 36657, 263-270

A continuous-flow reactor for the precipitation of tellurium

PH Jennings, NJ Themelis, ES Stratigakos

Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 8 (3), 281-286

A two‐wavelength pyrometer for temperature measurements in gas‐solids systems

NJ Themelis, WH Gauvin

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 40 (4), 157-161

Recovery of materials and energy from urban wastes

NJ Themelis

Springer Berlin Heidelberg,

Properties of ceramics prepared using dry discharged waste to energy bottom ash dust

A Bourtsalas, L Vandeperre, S Grimes, N Themelis, R Koralewska, …

Waste Management & Research 33 (9), 794-804

Transforming the non-recycled plastics of New York city to synthetic oil

DA Tsiamis, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 55447, V001T03A005

Chlorine sources, sinks, and impacts in WTE power plants

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 43932, 77-84

Relation between mechanochemical dechlorination rate of polyvinyl chloride and mill power consumption

W Tongamp, J Kano, Y Suzuta, F Saito, NJ Themelis

Journal of material cycles and waste management 11, 32-37

Use of statistical entropy and life cycle analysis to evaluate global warming potential of waste management systems

S Kaufman, E Kwon, N Krishnan, M Castaldi, N Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 42932, 107-112

Siting of waste-to-energy facilities in New York City using GIS technology

MM DeAngelo

The Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University and the Henry Krub …

Some aspects of mathematical modeling of flash smelting phenomena

NJ Themelis, L Wu, Q Jiao

Flash Reaction Processes: Center for Pyrometallurgy Conf, 263-285

Techniques of process analysis in extractive metallurgy

NJ Themelis

Metallurgical Transactions 3, 2021-2029

Process and Apparatus for the Continuous Smelting and Converting of Copper Concentrates to Metallic Copper

NJ Themelis, P Spira

Canadian Patent

Heat transfer to clouds of particles

NJ Themelis, WH Gauvin

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 41 (1), 1-6

Energy recovery in China from solid wastes by the moving grate and circulating fluidized bed technologies

AC Bourtsalas, Q Huang, H Zhang, NJ Themelis

Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy 2, 27-36

The combustion of as-received and pre-processed (RDF/SRF) municipal solid wastes as fuel for the power sector

CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 37 …

Volume-based waste fee (VBWF): Effect on recycling and applicability to New York City

J Abrashkin

Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, April 21

Analysis of electronic waste recycling in the United States and potential application in China

S Liu

New York: Columbia University

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF A NOVEL BUILDING-‐INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC-‐THERMAL (BIPVT) SYSTEM

Y Sun

no. January

Small scale waste-to-energy technologies

C Ellyin, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 54570, 169-176

Reducing landfill methane emissions and expansion of the hierarchy of waste management

NJ Themelis

Proceedings of global waste management symposium, Global Waste Management …

Potential for the first WTE facility in Mumbai (Bombay) India

P Bhada, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 42932, 147-155

State of garbage in America recycling data analysis.

P Simmons, SM Kaufman, NJ Themelis

Waste-to-energy as a key component of integrated solid waste management for Santiago, Chile: A cost-benefit analysis

PE Weinstein

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University

Computational analysis of a three-dimensional plasma spray jet

B Dussoubs, P Fauchais, A Vardelle, M Vardelle, NJ Themelis

ITSC 1997, 557-565

Recovery of zinc in a slag resistance electric furnace

NJ Themelis, JG Peacey, Q Jiao

HH Kellogg International Symposium-Quantitative Description of Metal …

Transport phenomena in high-intensity smelting furnaces

NJ Themelis

Trans. Inst. Min. Metall. C 96

Rate phenomena in the oxidation of zinc, iron and copper sulfide pellets

YH Kim, NJ Themelis

Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 26 (4), 341-349

Mathematical modeling of flash converting of copper matte

Q Jiao, L Wu, NJ Themelis

Mathematical Modelling of Materials Processing Operations, 835-858

Fluid bed behavior in zinc roasters

NJ Themelis, GM Freeman

JOM 36, 52-57

Process for the continuous smelting and converting of copper concentrates to metallic copper

NJ Themelis, P Spira

US Patent 3,437,475

Global bright lights

N Themelis

Waste Management World 12 (1)

The 2007 IWSA directory of waste-to-energy plants

T Michaels

Integrated Waste Services Association 12, 32-45

Modeling of solid waste flow and mixing on the traveling grate of a waste-to-energy combustion chamber

M Nakamura, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 3736, 273-282

Transforming Waste to Wealth, Achieving Circular Economy

K Kalkanis, DE Alexakis, E Kyriakis, K Kiskira, J Lorenzo-Llanes, …

Circular Economy and Sustainability 2 (4), 1541-1559

Energy, environmental and greenhouse gas effects of using alternative fuels in cement production

J Zhang

Columbia University, USA

Development of waste-to-energy in China; and case study of the Guangzhou Likeng WTE plant

Y Dong

Np, Dec

The mounting problems with managing wastes in rapidly developing islands: the Mauritius case

R Mohee, A Karagiannidis, N Themelis, ST Kontogianni

Third international symposium on energy from biomass and waste …

Waste to energy: on the thermal treatment and energetic utilization of solid wastes

A Karagiannidis, B Bilitewski, G Tchobanoglous, NJ Themelis, …

Waste management research trends. Nova Science Publishers, New York, 105-164

Global growth of traditional and novel thermal treatment technologies

NJ Themelis

Waste Management World 50 (G), 37

Numerical analysis of size reduction of municipal solid waste particles on the traveling grate of a waste-to-energy combustion chamber

M Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 42045, 125-130

Advances in Thermal Spray Science and Technology

A Vardelle, P Fauchais, NJ Themelis, CC Berndt, S Sampath

ASM Int., Material Park, OH 175

A rate equation for the reduction of ferrous chloride by hydrogen

JC Yannopoulos, NJ Themelis

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 43 (4), 173-177

Systematic study of the formation and chemical/mineral composition of waste-to-energy (WTE) fly ash

Y Tian, NJ Themelis, ACT Bourtsalas, S Kawashima, Y Gorokhovich

Materials Chemistry and Physics 293, 126849

WTE plants installed in 10 European Cities

P Chaliki, CS Psomopoulos, NJ Themelis, C Stavroulakis

12th international conference on protection and restoration of the …

Improving methods on MSW measurement.

NJ Themelis, SM Kaufman

BioCycle 51 (1), 34-37

Energy and materials recovery from municipal solid wastes at the island of Rhodes

NJ Themelis, A Bourka, G Ypsilantis

2nd international conference on environmental management, engineering …

High-temperature corrosion phenomena in waste-to-energy boilers

SH Lee

Columbia University

Mathematical and physical modeling of mixing and flow phenomena of municipal solid waste particles on a reverse acting grate

M Nakamura

Columbia University

Energy recovery from global waste-to-energy

N Themelis

Summer Review Issue of Waste Management World, 1-9

Vapor‐liquid equilibria at high temperatures: The selenium‐tellurium system

JC Yannopoulos, NJ Themelis

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 42 (5), 219-221

Performance of Waste-to-Energy fine combined ash/filter cake ash-metakaolin based artificial aggregate

Y Tian, ACT Bourtsalas, S Kawashima, X Teng, NJ Themelis

Construction and Building Materials 327, 127011

Technical assessment of the CLEERGAS moving grate-based process for energy generation from municipal solid waste

MR Lusardi, MK Kohn, NJ Themelis, MJ Castaldi

Waste management & research 32 (8), 772-781

The role of waste-to-energy in urban infrastructure

NJ Themelis

Metropolitan sustainability, 500-519

Ultrafine particles from WTE and other combustion sources

L Yinon, NJ Themelis, VF McNeill

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 43932, 85-100

Waste as a renewable source of energy: current and future practices

K Millrath, NJ Themelis

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 37157, 157-167

Sources and Material Balance of Mercury in the New York-New Jersey Harbor

NJ Themelis, AF Gregory

Report to the New York Academy of Sciences, 17-19

The Noranda Process

GC McKerrow, NJ Themelis, P Tarassoff, GD Ikllett

Journal of Metals 24 (4), 25-32

Plasma assisted waste to energy processes

N Themelis, A Vardelle

Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, 8097-8112

WTE in China

N Themelis, Z Zhang

Waste Management World.[Online] http://www. waste-management-world. com …

The importance of WTE to China and the global climate

NJ Themelis, Z Zhang

Proceedings Waste Engineering, May

Waste-to-energy: Renewable energy instead of greenhouse gas emissions

NJ Themelis

Earth Eng. Center, Columbia Univ. New York, USA

Combating corrosion in WTE facilities: theory and experience

SH Lee, NJ Themelis, MJ Castaldi

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 42045, 175-185

Anaerobic digestion of organic waste in MSW

J Nickolas, S Themelis, S Verma

Waste Management World, 41-47

Analyzing data in state of garbage in America, EPA reports

NJ Themelis

BioCycle 44 (1), 22-22

Maximum distance to which cogenerated heat can be economically distributed in an urban community

GC Karvountzi, NJ Themelis, V Modi

ASHRAE Transactions 108, 334

Oxidation and evaporation of iron droplets in a plasma jet

H Zhang, G Espie, NJ Themelis, AM Vardelle, M Vardelle

14th Int. Symp. on Plasma Chemistry, Prague, 2775-2784

Assessment of projected technological innovation in the US copper industry

LJ SOUSSA, N WEISS, T NJ, G NE

Calculating tons to composting in the US

NJ Themelis, L Arsova

Bio Cycle 56, 27

Comparison of environmental performance of waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in France with Denmark and Germany

Y Benhamou

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MS in Earth …

The environmental impacts: Assessing waste-to-energy and landfilling in the US

NJ Themelis

Waste Management World 8, 176-189

Recovery of zinc from ironmaking dusts by NaOH leaching

ML Stamatovic, NJ Themelis

Extraction and Processing for the Treatment and Minimization of Wastes. 1994 …

Solid–Liquid and Gas–Liquid Interactions in a Bath-Smelting Reactor

NJ Themelis, PJ Mackey

Savard/Lee International Symposium on Bath Smelting, 353-375

Rate phenomena in a laboratory flash smelting reactor

NDH Munro, NJ Themelis

Copper 91(Cobre 91)

Semiautogenous Grinding of Copper Ores

NJ Themelis, L AW

Evaluation and selection of projects in industrial research

NJ Themelis

JOM 28, 15-20

Production of Copper by the Noranda process

NJ Themelis, GC McKerrow

Advances in Extractive Metallurgy and Refining (ed. MJ Jones), The …

Survey of MSW Generation and Disposition in the US

NJ Themelis, D Shin

MSW Management 25, 18-24

Evaluating the potential for energy recovery from wastes on Greek Islands

CS Psomopoulos, AD Papadiotis, NJ Themelis

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 22 (7b), 2111-2116

Current status of global WtE

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 44830, 49-55

Identification and Assessment of Available Technologies for Materials and Energy Recovery from Flexible Packaging Waste (FPW)

NJ Themelis, L Arsova

New York

A new screening metric to benchmark the sustainability of municipal solid waste management systems

SM Kaufman

Columbia University

Doubling the energy advantage of waste-to-energy: district heating in the northeast US

P Ulloa, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 47896, 29-39

Better together-gas turbine cogeneration improves energy recovery from WTE plants

N Themelis

Waste Management World 50 (G), 97

Removal of arsenic, antimony and bismuth from molten copper by injection of SF sub 6

B Zhao, Q Zhao, NJ Themelis

Co-Products and Minor Elements in Non-Ferrous Smelting, 39-52

Scientific visualisation of heat, mass and fluid flow phenomena in metallurgical reactor systems-a case history and future challenges

RIL Guthrie

HH Kellogg International Symposium: Quantitative Description of Metal …

Quantitative Description of Metal Extraction Processes: HH Kellogg International Symposium: Proceedings of a Symposium

NJ Themelis, PF Duby

Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

Production of zinc by flash smelting of calcined concentrates

J Asteljoki, HH Kellogg, IV Kojo, NJ Themelis

Extraction Metallurgy’89, 3-26

A world-wide survey of copper converting practice

RE Johnson, NJ Themelis, GA Eltringham

JOM 31 (6), 28-36

An evaluation of the pneumatic transport reactor

JC Yannopoulos, NJ Themelis, WH Gavvin

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 44 (4), 231-235

Gauvin, WH

NJ Themelis

Trans. ASME 65, 229

Energy and materials recovery from post-recycling wastes: WTE

NJ Themelis

Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 1-9

The role of energy recovery from wastes in the decarbonisation efforts of the EU power sector

CS Psomopoulos, K Kiskira, K Kalkanis, HC Leligou, NJ Themelis

IET Digital Library

Contribution of WTE Plants in Eu’s Targets for Renewables: A Review Until 2014

CS Psomopoulos, SD Kaminaris, GC Ioannidis, NJ Themelis

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste …

Waste–to–Energy, Introduction

NJ Themelis

Renewable energy systems. Springer New York, New York

Rapid Growth of WTE in China: Current Performance and Impediments to Future Growth

L Qiu, Y Dong, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 44830, 167-175

Analysis of the economics of Waste-To-Energy plants in China earth engineering Centre

L Qiu, NJ Themelis

Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

Identification and Assessment of Available Technologies for Materials and Energy Recovery

J Nickolas, LA Themelis

Report submitted to Flexible Packaging Association, New York City

Life Cycle Assessment-a Comparison of Various Thermal Spray Processes and Electroplating

A Vardelle, A Moign, JG Legoux, NJ Themelis

International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC)

Don’t trash waste-to-energy plants

NJ Themelis

Cape Cod Times; Cape Cod Media Group: Hyannis, MA, USA

Process for refining high-impurity copper to anode copper

NJ Themelis, B Zhao

US Patent 5,849,061

Metal production and greenhouse gases

NJ Themelis, IK Wernick

Minerals, Metals and Materials Society/AIME(USA),, 595-609

Kinetic study of As, Sb and Bi removal from copper by SF sub 6 injection

B Zhao, NJ Themelis

Gas Interactions in Nonferrous Metals Processing, 127-143

Flash reduction of metal oxides

NJ Themelis, B Zhao

NATO ASI Series E Applied Sciences-Advanced Study Institute 282, 273-294

An Experimental Slag Resistance Furnace

RM Westcott, NJ Themelis

EPD Congress 1994, 789-801

Injection Refining of Directly-Smelted Copper

NJ Themelis

International Symposium on Injection in Process Metallurgy, TMS Minerals …

HH Kellogg international symposium: quantitative description of metal extraction processes: proceedings of a symposium sponsored by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and …

NJ Themelis, P Duby

(No Title)

Pyrometallurgical process for producing metallic copper from copper sulfide concentrates

N Themelis, R Beck, J Wagner

US Patent 3,850,620

Recovery of copper from slags by milling

KN Subramanian, NJ Themelis

TMS PAPER NO. A 71-77, METALLURGICAL SOCIETY OF AIME, NEW YORK. 1971, 26 P

Chemical Recovery from Sodium-Base Spent Sulphite Liquors by the Atomized Suspension Technique

G Lee, NJ Themelis, WH Gauvin

Pulp and Paper Mag. Canada 59, 140-148

Industrial-scale Processes for Transforming Mixed Plastic Wastes to Oil

Y Lin, NJ Themelis

Department of Earth and Environmental EngineeringFu Foundation School of …

WTE: Thermal Plasma Processes

N Themelis, A Vardelle

Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, 1-17

Using Engineered Fuels as a Substitute for Fossil Fuels in Cement Production

N Awad

Thesis, Columbia University, Earth and Enivronmental Engineering Department …

Beneficial reuse of the fine fraction of incinerator bottom ash from a dry discharge system in the manufacture of pyroxene ceramics

A Bourtsalas, L Vandeperre, S Grimes, N Themelis, R Koralewska, …

Waste Management & Research (im Review)

The role of waste to energy facilities in the power sector of EU

P Chaliki, CS Psomopoulos, GC Ioannidis, NJ Themelis

MedPower 2014, 1-6

The Global WTERT Council and its role in advancing WTE technologies

E Kalogirou, N Themelis

Waste Management 2, 201-207

Changes in public perception of role of waste-to-energy for sustainable waste management of MSW

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 54570, 159-168

Ultrafine particle emissions: Comparison of waste-to-energy with coal-and biomass-fired power plants

L Yinon

Columbia University

Energy and climate change impacts of thermal treatment of municipal solid wastes

NJ Themelis

Challenges of Power Engineering and Environment: Proceedings of the …

Who’s the cleanest of them all? Emissions from WTE and coal-fired power plants in the US

NJ Themelis

WASTE MANAGEMENT WORLD 50 (G), 119

Modeling of transport and chemical rate phenomena in flash combustion of municipal solid wastes.

NJ Themelis, YH Kim

Yazawa International Symposium on Metallurgical and Materials Processing …

Technical and Economic Analysis of the New York City Recycling System

CE Todd

Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Fu Foundation of …

A preliminary evaluation of a combined tire-and refuse-derived fuel (TDF-RDF)

RI Stessel, T Amari, NJ Themelis, IK Wearnick

Columbia Univ., New York, NY (US)

Modeling of simultaneous plasma spraying of two powders

B Dussoubs, A Vardelle, G Mariaux, P Fauchais, NJ Themelis

ITSC 1999, 793-798

Method for controlling the temperature of metal lances in molten baths

NJ Themelis

US Patent 3,529,955

Using Waste-to-Energy Fine-Combined Ash as Sand or Cement Substitute in Cement Mortar

Y Tian, ACT Bourtsalas, S Kawashima, NJ Themelis

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 35 (11), 04023378

Waste management in Greece and in China and potential for waste-to-energy

K Songtao, E Kalogirou

ISWA 2011, 35-46

The Potential and Obstacles for Waste-to-Energy in Island Settings

ME Diaz Barriga, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 54570, 113-125

Anaerobic Acidogenesis of Food Waste and Application as a Supplemental Carbon Source for Denitrification

L Arsova, NJ Themelis, K Chandran

WEFTEC 2011, 1615-1623

Expanding the waste management hierarchy for reducing methane emissions from landfills

A KARAGIANNIDIS, NJ THEMELIS

Venice 2008 Proceedings. CISA Publisher

Increasing the Quantity and Quality of Metals Recovered at Waste-to-Energy Facilities

W Sunk, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 42045, 165-174

Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Two Options for MSW Management in New York City: Modern Landfilling vs. Waste to Energy

N Krishnan, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 37564, 193-201

Continuous flow reactors in pyrometallurgy

NJ Themelis, B Zhao

Metallurgical Processes for the Early Twenty-First Century 1, 879-896

Recovery of zinc from steel plant dust

MJ Stamatovic, NJ Themelis

Extractive Metallurgy of Copper, Nickel and Cobalt. 1, 1993

Mathematical modeling of in-situ vitrification

B Zhao, C Ting, NJ Themelis

Extraction and processing for the treatment and minimization of wastes: 1994

Reduction of Single Zinc Calcine Pellets

EM Weenink, NJ Themelis

EPD Congress 1992, 1101-1114

Interfacial tension between liquid steel and BaO-containing slags

W Liu, NJ Themelis, T El Gammal, FL Zhao

Iron & steelmaker 19 (6), 51-56

MERCURY EMISSIONS FROM HIGH-TEMPERATURE SOURCES

NJ Themelis, AF Gregory

Use of the Noranda and Codelco Processes for Expansion and Modernization of Copper Smelters

PJ Mackey, GD Hallett, F Procile, NJ Themelis

Extraction Metallurgy’85, 1101-1124

Technological Innovation in the US Copper Industry: A Special Survey

A Weiss, NJ Themelis, LJ Sousa, NE Guernsey

JOM 35, 55-58

NORANDA PROCESS-ALTERNATIVE TO REVERBERATORY AND CONVERTER SMELTING OF COPPER

NJ THEMELIS, TARASSOF. P, GD HALLETT, GC MCKERROW

JOURNAL OF METALS 24 (4), 25-&

Process for the gaseous deoxidation of anode copper

NJ Themelis, PR Schmidt

US Patent 3,545,962

Studies of the reduction of iron oxides in particulate systems.

N Themelis

McGill University

Waste Management in EU, Asia and Turkey

S Ozturk, NJ Themelis

Effects of water, acid, or alkali washing on Waste-to-Energy (WTE) bottom ash, fly ash, and combined ash

Y Tian, NJ Themelis, ACT Bourtsalas

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 12 (2), 111936

WTE: Thermal Plasma Processes, 2019, Recovery of Materials and Energy from Urban Wastes: A Volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology

NJ Themelis, A Vardelle

WTE: Thermal Plasma Processes,

Assessment of Waste Management Performance of Companies

R Mao, N Themelis, A Bourtsalas

Managing Municipal Solid Wastes: Japan, US and EU

K Matsunaga, NJ Themelis

Hazardous and Industrial Wastes: Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Mid …

Energy Recovery: An Essential Tool of Integrated Waste Management

NJ Themelis, YH Kim

Hazardous and Industrial Wastes, 89-103

A Re-Usable Landfill: The Aerobic Bioconversion Cell

NJ Themelis, YH Kim

Hazardous and Industrial Wastes, 124-139

An Industrial Ecology Approach to Dredging the New York/New Jersey Harbor: The Case of Mercury

T Wakeman, NJ Themelis

Hazardous and Industrial Wastes, 14-14

The 2016 Thermal Spray Roadmap (vol 25, pg 1376, 2016)

A Vardelle, C Moreau, J Akedo, H Ashrafizadeh, CC Berndt, JO Berghaus, …

JOURNAL OF THERMAL SPRAY TECHNOLOGY 26 (5), 985-986

INVENTORY OF US, SOURCES OF DIOXINS TO ATMOSPHERE

H Dwyer

Columbia University

Recovery of materials and energy from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the Republic of Korea

Y Seo, NJ Themelis

WASTE MANAGEMENT 39, II-III

Numerical simulation of flow and mixing behavior of solids on a moving grate combustion system

S Barone

Columbia University

EFFECT OF CALCINING ON THE PROPERTIES OF CERAMICS PRODUCED FROM FINE INCINERATOR BOTTOM ASH

A Bourtsalas, S Grimes, C Cheeseman, L Vandepperre, N Themelis

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, 15

THE ECONOMICS OF COLLECTING AND PROCESSING FLEXIBLE PACKAGING WASTE (FPW) TO A FEEDSTOCK FOR PYROLYSIS PLANTS

L Arsova

Waste-to-Energy-Griechenland-Die Abfallwirtschaft und das Waste-to-Energy—Potenzial in Griechenland

E Kalogirou, K Manolis, A Bourtsalas, NJ Themelis, A Karagiannidis

Mull und Abfall 43 (5), 211

Disposal technology of waste materials Disposal technology of waste materials, 1977

W TONGAMP, J KANO, Y SUZUTA, F SAITO, NJ THEMELIS

Journal of material cycles and waste management 11 (1), 32-37

Quantitative Analysis of the Flow, Mixing, and Size Segregation Phenomena of Municipal Solid Waste Particles on a Traveling Grate of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Combustion Chamber

MR Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 48807, 253-258

The Center for Sustainable Utilization of Resources: Quantifying Climate Change Impacts of Managing Wastes

M Zannes, M Barlaz, M Castaldi, NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 48807, 145-151

Computational and experimental studies of the flow, mixing, and size segregation phenomena of heterogeneous granular materials

MR Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts 61, MM. 010

Letter to the Editor| Ecological Economics-Volume 66, Issue 4

NJ Themelis

Ecological Economics 66 (4), 555-556

Trends and Patterns in a New Time Series of Natural and Anthropogenic Methane Emissions, 1980-2000

E Matthews, L Bruhwiler, NJ Themelis

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2007, B51F-08

WTERT: May 2006–May 2007 Highlights

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 47896, 207-217

Yongxiang Yang

I Milo, MA Reuter, NJ Themelis

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics 7 (1), 1

To MACT or not to MACT: Mercury Emissions from Waste-to-Energy and Coal-fired Power Plants Nickolas J. Themelis and Nada Assaf-Anid2

ME from Waste-to-Energy

To MACT or Not to MACT: Mercury Emissions From Waste-to-Energy and Coal-Fired Power Plants

NJ Themelis, N Assaf-Anid

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 37564, 203-209

The Puzzle of Drastic Reduction of Point Source Emissions and Continuing High Deposition of Mercury in Florida

NJ Themelis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 37564, 11-17

Markov Chain Simulation of Solid Waste Fuel Flow and Mixing on the Reverse Acting Grate

M Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

廃棄物学会研究発表会講演論文集 15, 43-45

Substance and Perceptions of Environmental Impacts of Dioxin Emissions: An Interim Report

NJ Themelis, P Deriziotis

North American Waste-to-Energy Conference 36657, 225-230

Replacing” incinerator” with” waste-to-energy”‘

NJ Themelis

BIOCYCLE 43 (6), 11-11

La projection plasma: une technique propre de traitement de surface?

M VARDELLE, NJ THEMELIS, A VARDELLE, P FAUCHAIS

Colloque annuel-SFT, 280-285

Minerals, metal production and greenhouse gases

NJ Themelis, I Wernick

Global Warming International Center, Woodridge, IL (United States)

Rate control of the flash reduction of zinc calcines

EM Weenink, NJ Themelis

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 28, 201-207

Thermal spray: A united forum for scientific and technological advances

B Dussoubs, P Fauchais, A Vardelle, M Vardelle, NJ Themelis, CC Berndt

ASM Int. Mater. Park. Ohio, USA

Kinetics of arsenic and antimony removal from molten copper by Na sub 2 CO sub 3 fluxing

B Zhao, NJ Themelis

EPD Congress 1996, 515-526

The Vanyukov Furnace and Other Bath-Smelting Processes

NJ Themelis

Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 15 (1), 201-201

A Japanese Center of Excellence: The Institute for Advanced Materials Processing (Sozaiken) of Tohoku University

NJ Themelis

JOM 46, 66-68

(12) RATE PHENOMENA IN A SLAG RESISTANCE ELECTRIC FURNACE (Miscellany)

NJ Themelis

東北大学素材工学研究所彙報= Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Materials …

Flash Oxidation and Flash Reduction: a Comparison

NJ Themelis

Extractive Metallurgy of Copper, Nickel and Cobalt. 1, 567-581

A Gravimetric Falling Ball Method for Measuring Liquid Viscosities

W Liu, NJ Themelis, T El Gammal

EPD Congress 1992, 957-967

ENERGY RECOVERY: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL OF

NJ Themelis, YH Kim

Hazardous and Industrial Waste: Proceedings of the… Mid-Atlantic …

NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY HARBOR: THE CASE OF MERCURY

T Wakeman, NJ Themelis

Hazardous and Industrial Waste: Proceedings of the… Mid-Atlantic …

Rate Phenomena in a Laboratory Flash Smelting Reactor, Paper from COPPER 91, Volume 4, Pyrometallurgy of Copper, an International Symposium held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada …

NDH Munro, NJ Themelis

Papers, 475-494

Proceedings of the International Symposium on quantitative description of metal extraction processes

NJ Themelis

Warrendale, PA (United States); The Metallurgical Society Inc.

Overall Energy and Material Balances Using the Outokumpu-HSC and the LOTUS 123 Programs

L Wu, A Roine, NJ Themelis

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Software in Chemical …

Modelling of gas-particles fluid flow and heat transfer in a non-transferred plasma jet

Q Jiao, NJ Themelis

Production and Processing of Fine Particles, 827-845

Flash Reaction Processes

DGC Robertson, HY Sohn, NJ Themelis

Salt Lake City, 1988

Flash Reaction Processes: Center for Pyrometallurgy Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 15-17, 1988

NJ Themelis, HY Sohn, DGC Robertson

Center for Pyrometallurgy, University of Missouri-Rolla

Flash Reaction Processes: Center for Pyrometallurgy Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 15-17, 1988

DGC Robertson, HY Sohn, NJ Themelis

Center for Pyrometallurgy, Fulton Hall, University of Missouri-Rolla

REMOVAL OF IMPURITIES FROM MOLTEN COPPER BY MEANS OF FLUX INJECTION

T STAPUREWICZ, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 39 (10), A88-A88

APPLICATION OF A MATHEMATICAL-MODEL IN THE DESIGN OF FLASH REACTORS

L WU, Q JIAO, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 39 (10), A88-A88

CHARACTERISTICS OF CONDUCTION AND GENERATION OF THERMAL-ENERGY IN SUBMERGED ELECTRIC FURNACES

Q JIAO, L WU, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 39 (10), A89-A89

COPPER TECHNOLOGY 1987 AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE

NJ Themelis, PJ Mackey

Copper 87 1, 31

MIXING AND MASS-TRANSFER PHENOMENA IN BOTTOM-INJECTED GAS-LIQUID REACTORS

T STAPUREWICZ, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 37 (11), A35-A35

A MATHEMATICAL-MODEL OF THE PARTICULATE FLASH OXIDATION SYSTEM

YH KIM, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 37 (11), A5-A5

CORRELATIONS OF ELECTRICAL-CONDUCTIVITY TO SLAG COMPOSITION AND TEMPERATURE

Q JIAO, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 37 (11), A109-A109

RATE PHENOMENA IN THE OUTOKUMPU REACTION SHAFT

NDH MUNROE, J MAKINEN, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 36 (12), 67-67

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN THE ROASTING OF COPPER-IRON SULFIDE PARTICLES

NJ THEMELIS, YH KIM

CIM BULLETIN 77 (866), 48-48

Technological Innovation in the Copper Industry. Volume 1. Methodology

A Weiss, N Themelis, N Guernsey

PRINCIPLES OF SULFIDE SMELTING, CHAPTER FROM ADVANCES IN SULFIDE SMELTING, VOLUME 1. BASIC PRINCIPLES

NJ THEMELIS, HH KELLOGG

BOOKS

Foerfarande och anordning foer kontinuerlig smaeltning och konvertering av kopparkoncentrat

NJ Themelis, GC Mckerrow

GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT IN ELECTRIC SMELTING FURNACES

NJ THEMELIS, R WESELY, CL HUANG

JOURNAL OF METALS 35 (12), A53-A53

PROCESS DESIGN OF FLUID BED ROASTERS

NJ THEMELIS, GM FREEMAN

JOURNAL OF METALS 35 (12), A32-A32

Pyrometallurgical process for producing metallic copper from copper sulfide concentrates

RR Beck, NJ Themelis, JV Wagner

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY IN COPPER PRODUCTION.

NJ THEMELIS, P MT

THE IMPACT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON COPPER SMELTING TECHNOLOGY

NJ Themelis

DEVELOPMENT OF THE KENNECOTT CONVERTER SMELTING PROCESS, CHAPTER 30 FROM WORLD MINING AND METALS TECHNOLOGY

JW DONALDSON, DA KINNEBERG, NJ THEMELIS

BOOKS

Rate Phenomena in Process Metallurgy

ET Turkdogan

American Scientist 60 (4), 517-517

Production of Cu by the Noranda Process

NJ Themelis, GC McKerrow

Proc. Internat. Symposium on Advances in Extractive Metallurgy and Refining …

PRODUCTION OF COPPER BY THE NORANDA PROCESS, PAPER FROM ADVANCES IN EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY AND REFINING

NJ THEMELIS, GC MCKERROW

BOOKS

RECOVERY OF COPPER FROM SLAGS BY MILLING

SUBRAMAN. KN, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 22 (12), A32-&

NORANDA PROCESS FOR CONTINOUS SMELTING AND CONVERTING OF COPPER CONCENTRATES

GC MCKERROW, NJ THEMELIS, TARASSOF. P, GD HALLETT

JOURNAL OF METALS 22 (12), A32-&

RECOVERY OF SELENIUM FROM COPPER ANODE SLIMES

WA DUTTON, VANDENST. AJ, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 22 (12), A66-&

SOLUBILITY OF COPPER IN SLAGS

P SPIRA, NJ THEMELIS

JOURNAL OF METALS 20 (1), A169-&

Studies of the Reduction of Iron Oxides in Particulate Systems

Nickolas. J. Themelis

McGill University Libraries

基于炉排和循环流化床技术的中国固体废弃物能源回收分析

B AC, Q Huang, H Zhang, NJ Themelis

废弃物处置与可持续能源 2 (1), 27-36

中国禁塑令对全球塑料废弃物处置的影响

W Wang, NJ Themelis, K Sun, AC Bourtsalas, Q Huang, Y Zhang, Z Wu

废弃物处置与可持续能源 1 (1), 67-78

Using Waste-to-Energy Fine Combined Ash as Substitute in Cement Mortar Production

Y Tian, AC Bourtsalas, S Kawashima, NJ Themelis

Shiho and Themelis, Nickolas J., Using Waste-to-Energy Fine Combined Ash as …

Physical and Stochastic Modeling of Mixing Phenomena of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Particles on a Traveling Grate

M Nakamura, MJ Castaldi, NJ Themelis

STATE 0F (SRBAGE IN AMERICA-DAT AND METH0D010GY

NJ Themelis, SM Kaufman

LCA Comparison of Electroplating and Other Thermal Spray

A Moing, A Vardelle, JG Legoux, NJ Themelis

A SYSTEMIC APPROACH ON CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENT PROCESSES FOR HAZARDOUS WASTES: THE CASE OF FLY-ASH FROM WASTE-TO-ENERGY FACILITIES FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES

P Samaras, A Karagiannidis, E Kalogirou, N Themelis, S Kontrogianni, …

Symposium on I nternational, 84

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AM Vardelle

Aktuální stav celosvětového WTE průmyslu

NJ Themelis

Detailed Examination of the Flows of Municipal Solid Waste Through Three EPA Region 9 States (CA, HI, and NV)

SM Kaufman, NJ Themelis

Environmental Impact of Fabric Filter Bag Incineration (FFB White Paper)

MJ Castaldi

Energy recovery from New York City municipal solid wastes

YH Kim, MH Brady

ARTICLE TITLE: Use of waste derived fuels in cement industry: a review

CS Psomopoulos, N Chatziaras, NJ Themelis

Importance of Waste-to-Energy to China and to the Global Climate

NJ Themelis, Z Zhang

Controlling particle injection in plasma spraying …,

NJT A Vardelle, KI Li, B Dussoubs

Roadmap plasma spraying

AD A Vardelle, NJ Themelis, J Brogan, AC Bourtsalas

Perspective..

NJT A Vardelle, C Moreau

Transport and Chemical Rate Phenomena

BD A Vardelle, NJ Themelis

Heat generation

NJT A. Vardelle, P. Fauchais, B. Dussoubs

The impact from the implementation of Waste to Energy to the economy. An macroeconomic approach for Greece

CS Psomopoulos, A Lyras, V Kostopoulos, I Venetis, NJ Themelis

Prof. Themelis is the recipient of many other professional awards:

Phoenix Award of the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP; 2016)