Professor Bodo Linnhoff (born 1948)[1] is a chemical engineer and academic who developed Pinch Analysis, a methodology for minimising energy usage in the process industries.
[5] He joined the company ICI in 1977[5] and moved to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1982 where he was appointed to a Chair in chemical engineering.
dissertation (1972, ETH Zurich) and in his PhD thesis "Thermodynamic Analysis in the Design of Process Networks" (awarded 1979, Leeds University).
[7] Although he and his PhD supervisor John R. Flower had difficulty getting the first paper accepted, it became one of the most highly cited in the history of chemical engineering.
Linnhoff led the multi-author team which produced the IChemE User Guide on Process Integration for the Efficient Use of Energy, 1st edition, in 1982.
[9] The early papers and awards led to sufficient academic status for his appointment to a Chair of Chemical Engineering at UMIST at age 33.
Around 1990, several projects for government agencies were set up including MITI (Japan), UBA, LFU (Germany), DTI, DoE (UK), EPA, EPRI (United States) and the European Commission to advise on incoming environmental legislation.