About the Author
Dr.-Ing. Martin Grabner is senior research engineer for coal gasification at the Research and Technology Center of Air Liquide in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Receiving scholarships from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and from the German National Academic Foundation, he has studied energy process engineering at the Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, and the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
For his excellent course of studies, he received the Georgius Agricola Medal and the Helmut Erich Rammler Award. While obtaining his doctoral degree from the Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, he spent several years working as team leader of the gasifier development group at the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering in Freiberg.