Dr. Scherello completed his studies at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany as Dipl.-Ing. Mechanical Engineering. He specializes at Energy Technologies (Power Plant Combustion Simulation). In 1996 he finished his PhD thesis about pressurized coal combustion. Then he switched to Gas- und Wärme-Institute, Essen, Germany and became Head of the Dept. Industrial Gas Utilization. Since 2007 Dr. Scherello is with E.ON Ruhrgas and later with OGE (Open-Grid Europe) as Project Leader CHARM®. In parallel he is working in several committees of the German Gas Association (DVGW) and CEN for standard and guideline generation on the topics of methane detection, quantification and pipeline safety.