Jost O.L. Wendt is Presidential Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Previously he was Head of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Jost obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., and his B.Sc. in the same subject from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The author of over 100 peer reviewed papers and over 250 presentations, Jost is internationally recognized for his wide-ranging research on reduction of emissions from combustion processes. His research within academia, industry and EPA laboratories, has led to ‘reburning’ for NOx control, to mitigation of waste incinerator emissions through control of ‘transient puffs’ and ‘rogue droplets’, to the management of fine particle and toxic metal emissions using sorbents. He is currently active in oxy-coal combustion and mercury sequestration technologies