Adel F. Sarofim

Presidential Professor

Adel Sarofim

Education

ScD. Chemical Engineering, MIT, 1962

S.M. Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, 1957

B.A. Chemistry, Oxford University, 1955

Curriculum Vitae

See Curriculum Vitae (PDF).

Faculty Web Page

http://www.ices.utah.edu/people/Sarofim.html

Class Web Pages

None at present.

Research

Dr. Sarofim is the author and co-author of over 200 papers on the subjects of radiative heat transfer, furnace design, circulation patterns in glass melts, the freeze process for desalination, nitric oxide formation in combustion systems, combustion generated aerosols, soot and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formation, and the characterization of carbon structure and reactivity. He received the Sir Alfred Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute in 1984; the Kuwait Prize for Petrochemical Engineering in 1983; the Walter Ahlström Environmental Prize of the Finnish Academies of Technology in 1993; the Senior Thermal Engineering and the Towend-BCURA Awards of the Institute of Energy in 1994; the University of Pittsburgh's 1995 Award for Innovation in Coal Conversion; the U.S. Department of Energy's 1996 Homer H. Lowry Award in Fossil Energy, and the Coal Division of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 1996 Percy Nicholls Award, the 1998 Lawrence K. Cecil Award of the Environmental Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,and an honorary doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 1998. He was the Hoyt C. Hottel Lecturer at the Combustion Institute in 1986 and the Lacey Lecturer at the California Institute of Technology in 1987.

Selected Publications

See publication list (PDF).