Environment champion
Technology to reduce carbon emissions during steel production has won Professor Veena Sahajwalla a Telstra NSW Business Women's Award.
Published on the 05 Oct 2011
Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla has been named as a winner in the 2011 Telstra NSW Business Women's Awards.
Professor Sahajwalla was selected for the Nokia Business Innovation Award. Telstra says the Awards program aims to celebrate the success of extraordinary women.
The NSW winners proceed to the national finals of the Awards, to be announced in Melbourne on 18 November.
Professor Sahajwalla is helping the steel industry combat great environmental challenges. As Director at the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology at UNSW, she developed technology to reduce carbon emissions during steel production and recycle end-of-life materials that would otherwise go to landfill.
"Growing up in India, I would walk past huge mountains of waste supporting communities of rubbish pickers and imagine what it would take to convert 'rubbish' into something more valuable," says Professor Sahajwalla.
Full story is on the Faculty of Science website