President Bush honoured Dr. Haren
Gandhi for his work in automotive emissions control
December 13, 2003
President Bush honoured Haren Gandhi for his work in automotive emissions
control in reducing pollution and improving air quality in the US and
India. His work has lead to the development and improvement of the catalytic
converter for automobiles that reduces the amount of exhaust pollutants
by changing some of the exhaust into innocuous substances that do not
harm the atmosphere.His advances in curbing harmful emissions, developed
during his years at Ford Motor Company, have spread throughout the U.S.
auto industry and around the world.His research has found ways to reduce
by 50 per cent the use of precious metals in the catalytic converters.
This advance can cut in half the cost of the device.It has also led
to improvements in the recycling of the precious metals from discarded
catalytic converters. We effectively recycle 98-99 per cent of the precious
metals.
Gandhi has also worked to help India to monitor and improve the emission
control in its vehicles for the lastr 20 years,
Emissions from U.S. automobiles have been reduced by more than 96 per
cent from the levels of the 1960s, and Gandhi's pioneering work is an
important factor in this advancement.
NRI,
Dr. Haren Gandhi, the highest-ranking scientist/engineer at Ford Motor
Company has won the
2002 National Medal of Technology for
research, development and commercialisation of automotive exhaust catalyst
technology.
Oct. 23, 2003
Secretary of Commerce Don Evans today congratulated
the recipients of the 2002 National Medal of Technology, the nations
highest honor for technological innovation.
I join the President in honoring this years
National Medal of Technology laureates, said Secretary Evans.
Their revolutionary innovations and discoveries in microelectronics
and materials science, clean air technologies and industrial leadership
to improve our environment have given American producers a leading
competitive edge on a global level and set a high standard for excellence.
As teachers, role models and managers of change, they have transformed
personal achievement into inspiration for future generations of innovators.
The 2002 National Medal of Technology laureates announced
that Haren S. Gandhi, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. a research
pioneer in automotive technology to improve environmental standards,
For research, development, and commercialization of automotive
exhaust catalyst technology, shaping the industry from its very beginning
and continually pushing to improve the quality of the air we breathe.
Dr. Gandhi has also led the automotive industry in ensuring the judicious
use of precious metals, including conservation measures such as recycling
of spent converters and technological advances in precious metal utilization.
Dr. Gandhi has also conducted pioneering research in the areas of three-way
catalysts (TWC), catalysts for alternative fuels, oxygen storage components
in TWCs, poisoning of automotive catalysts, and novel catalyst formulation
strategies.
His work has resulted in over 70 technical publications and over 40
U.S. patents in automotive exhaust catalysis and related areas.
As a top official of Ford Motor Company, Gandhi favors
the use of CNG in India, calling it the best fuel available for Delhi
at present. On fuel basis CNG is the cleanest and most environment-friendly
fuel available at present for Delhi, said Gandhi at an Auto Expo
in India.
Born in Calcutta on May 2, 1941 and raised in Bombay,
Gandhi earned a degree in chemical engineering from Bombay University,
before receiving his doctorate at the University of Detroit. Gandhi
joined Ford in 1967 as a research engineer and has held a number of
research engineering and staff scientist positions within the company.
Dr Gandhis distinctions is his recent election
to ( (NAE) the National Academy of Engineering. He has had an illustrious
career wherein he has won includes numerous technical awards, including
five Henry Ford Technological Awards in 1985, 1988, 1989 and two in
1994. He has published more than 70 technical publications and over
40 US patents in automotive exhaust catalysis and related areas.
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