Amir Shabrin Khaidi, student of the Department of Mineralogy (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences) at Eötvös Loránd University, won the tender announced by ExxonMobil Hungary with his master's thesis research (supervisor: Erzsébet Harman-Tóth). The aim of the energy-innovation competition announced for students in Hungarian higher education is to mark the directions with the help of which the ever-increasing humanity can get cleaner and more energy.
Amir, from Malaysia, participated as a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holder in the Environmental Science master programme of ELTE and continues his research as a first-year student at the Environmental Science Doctoral School. At the forefront of his research are the solid combustion products of biogas engines, which degrade the efficiency of energy production due to increased maintenance costs. The project would not have been possible without the industrial companies applying the technology in Hungary as well - such as the strategic partner of the Faculty of Science, the Budapest Waterworks Co. Ltd. and the Kecskemét-based NRG-Agent Kft.
Amir won a study trip to ExxonMobil's European Technology Center in Brussels.
(Caption: Amir Shabrin Khaidi and his thesis supervisor, Erzsébet Harman-Tóth, in the company of the studied biogas engine cylinder heads. The name of the BePrimitive research group came from the slogan of the third member of the team, Tamás G. Weiszburg, suggesting that the simplest solutions shall be sought even in complex environmental systems.)
