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Francis De Winter

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Contract R&D and Engineering Consultancy in the Thermal Sciences

He is Vice-Chair of the American Solar Energy Society, past Member (3 terms), Board of Directors, International Solar Energy Society (ISES). He is the 1983 recipient of the ASES Charles Greeley Abbot Award, a member of the Solar Energy Hall of Fame since 1985, was designated Pioneer in the Field of Renewable Energy at the World Renewable Energy Congress in Denver in 1996, and is a Fellow of ASES.

Mr. de Winter has specialized in heat transfer and such associated fields as fluid flow and thermodynamics. He has worked on spacecraft solar power system design, in terrestrial solar energy applications. The de Winter "Heat Exchanger Factor" has become a standard part of the solar energy literature, and is used worldwide. He holds two US Patents, has written numerous technical articles, has prepared several surveys on solar energy activities, is the editor of the 1990 MIT Press annotated bibliography book on "Solar Collectors, Energy Storage, and Materials," and has edited the proceedings for numerous conferences on solar energy and other energy topics. He was the founder and president of the Altas Corporation, a company involved in contract R&D in solar energy between 1974 and 1988.
 

More at www.ecotopia.com/dewinter/
 

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