Greenhouse Engineering: Integrated Energy Management

About Ilhami Yildiz

Dr. lhami Yldz is a controlled environment systems engineer and has expertise in energy environment and sustainability issues such as bioreactors environmental biotechnology microalgae-based biofuels and bioproducts production using liquid and gaseous waste streams complex systems modeling air- and ground-source heat pumps combined heat and power generation flue gas recovery and greenhouse gas mitigation hydronic heating and hot water storage systems and energy and water conservation. He has designed and built a number of environment friendly commercial energy systems transferring extensive research findings to commercial operations in Canada Mexico Russia Turkey and the United States. One of his milestones includes the Gazprom Headquarters Complex in Moscow (at the time comprising the tallest building in Russia) executed by GAMA Holding. He is the author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles books book chapters and audio-visual publications.Overview: Professor Engineering Dalhousie University; Associate Professor - BioResource & Agricultural Engineering Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo California; Assistant Professor - Earth & Environmental Sciences University of Windsor; Ph.D. in Food Agricultural and Biological Engineering (Ohio State); M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Ohio State); M.Sc. in Agricultural Meteorology (Ohio State); B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering (University of Ankara). He has been honoured with the Grand Challenge Award by the U.S. Government (2008); Outstanding Faculty Award at Cal Poly (2008); Presidential Letter of Appreciation at Cal Poly (2008); and Gold Medal Performance Award by the University of Windsor (2004).