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On Thursday December 16, 2021, colleagues from the University of 新浪彩票 and former industry partners will gather at a private function to thank Associate Professor Peter Mullinger for his many contributions, and to celebrate his rich and varied career, which was at the core, dedicated to increasing fuel efficiency, and lowering carbon emissions.

It is not surprising to learn that Peter鈥檚 work has had a large impact on Professor Gus Nathan and colleagues from the Centre for Energy Technology, and helped to inspire the idea behind the CRC for Heavy Industry Low-Carbon Transition (HILT CRC). He also left a huge legacy in the hundreds of students he trained at the school of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials. However, to understand how Peter Mullinger came to be at the University of 新浪彩票, he says that you have to look back to how his career began.

鈥淢y career has exceeded my wildest expectations. As a 16-year-old I expected to be a draughtsman working on a drawing board for my life,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 never dreamt that I would travel the world solving the challenges of the high temperature process industries and finish my career at The University of 新浪彩票鈥�.

He credits the achievements of his career with not being afraid to take risks, change paths and embrace opportunities, since one thing inevitably leads to another.

鈥楶eter had uncanny ability to get to the bottom of a complex problem鈥� adds Professor Nathan. 鈥楬e also had an enormous capacity for hard work, great leadership skills, a brilliant mind and a penchant for independent thinking. Peter inspired confidence in being able to overcome difficult industrial challenges 鈥� and overcome he did.

Attending university was not on Peter鈥檚 radar when he began a technical apprenticeship. It was on his boss鈥檚 recommendation that he transferred to Leicester University to complete his engineering qualification. In 1967, he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, which also covered topics in civil engineering and electrical and electronic engineering, but strangely did not include chemical engineering, which would become the focus of his later work and study.

Peter began his engineering career, as a mechanical engineer, designing oil burners for very large power stations.

In 1970, an opportunity arose for him to join the University of Sheffield as an Experimental Officer working on atomisation of oil burners for the Royal Navy. To upskill in the area, Peter undertook a PhD in chemical engineering at Sheffield, which he completed in 2.5 years. His thesis, 鈥淭he Atomisation of Liquid Fuels鈥� won the Lubbock-Sambrook Award for the best paper on any subject dealing with liquid fuels, from the Institute of Fuel (now known as the Institute of Energy), in London.

It was then that his career took an unexpected turn. He graduated at the time of the OPEC embargo and oil crisis of 1973, the price of oil sky rocketed and oil became a rare commodity. Using it as an energy source was now out of the question. Peter was left wondering what to do next.

Rather than feeling sorry for himself, he took the opportunity to live out a boyhood dream of working on the railways and driving steam locomotives. He got a job working on the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in South East Kent, possibly the busiest steam train line in Britain at the