Trends in Thermal Engineering Leadership

Q1. You’ve led major engineering, thermal-systems and innovation programs across your career — could you briefly outline how your responsibilities have evolved as you moved into senior technical and leadership roles?

Though my career has evolved in the thermal and renewable energy sectors, my roles have shifted from individual contributor to senior leadership, including VP.

In the initial stages, I worked on ground processes, thermal calculations, and order execution. In the later phase, I have overseen the engineering, design calculations, and operations. However, during my latest role in the Thermal Energy system, I designed from scratch and then built the team, so I handled all micro-design activities, including concept design, thermal and heat transfer calculations, material selection, overseeing simulations, fabrication drawings, prototype development, etc.

Q2. As industries push toward decarbonization, how do you see demand for alternatives to fossil-fuel-based thermal systems evolving, especially in process heating and industrial steam applications?

It has and will further enhance demand for renewable process heating and industrial steam applications, driven by market demand, and all major corporations are positioning their products as Green and pushing their vendors to use Green energy.

Also, each country that participated in Global climate summits (COP) has made policy…