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Yiannis Levendis All Experts

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Expertise
  • Alternative fuels
  • Atmospheric Pollution
  • Clean Coal
  • Combustion Engineering
  • Efficiency Improvements
  • Energy conversion
  • Fire Suppression
  • Incineration of hazardous wastes
  • Turbomachinery
Contact
y.levendis@neu.edu
617.373.3806

Yiannis Levendis In the Media

  • Scientific American

    VW scandal causes small but irreversible environmental damage

  • Boston Herald

    VW diesel scam bugs drivers

Yiannis Levendis for Northeastern

  • Yiannis Levendis, Distinguished Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, has been elected a 2019 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

    Corn stalks and old plastic could be the new coal


    Yiannis Levendis, Distinguished Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern, who was recently elected as a fellow to the National Academy of Inventors, has spent his career creating reusable products, cleverly repurposing our waste, and lighting a remarkable number of things on fire.

    • by Laura Castañón   January 15, 2020
  • Faculty experts weigh in on Volkswagen scandal


    VW’s admitted installation of software in diesel cars to cheat emissions tests raises questions in fields ranging from law and business to the environment, public health, and technology. We asked Northeastern faculty experts to discuss these issues.

    • by Thea Singer   September 30, 2015
  • Are plastics the new natural gas?


    Researchers in the College of Engineering have developed a combustion system that burns plastics as cleanly as natural gas—and has the added capability of producing carbon nanotubes.

    • by Angela Herring   December 4, 2013
  • Journey to a cleaner future


    Engineering professor Yiannis Levendis was awarded the 2013 George Westinghouse Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to the power field of mechanical engineering.

    • by Angela Herring   June 5, 2013

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