STATUS REPORT

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


The University of Tulsa
600 South College Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74104




























SEPTEMBER, 2000 - AUGUST, 2001





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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S


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STATE OF THE DEPARTMENT

General ......................................................................................................................3

Faculty Activities ........................................................................................................3

Undergraduate Program..............................................................................................7

Graduate Program.....................................................................................................14

Research..................................................................................................................19


LIST OF TABLES

Table
1 Recent Undergraduate Enrollment Data.......................................................................8
2 Undergraduate Student Demographics.......................................................................10
3 Dec. 00-Dec. 01 Chemical Engineering BS Graduates................................................12
4 Current Chemical Engineering Seniors........................................................................13
5 Recent Graduate Enrollment Data.............................................................................15
6 2000-01 Chemical Engineering Masters and Ph.D. graduates.......................................16
7 Nature of Graduate Student Body...............................................................................17
8 Current Chemical Engineering Graduate Students.......................................................18
9 External Funding, Department of Chemical Engineering..............................................20
10 Funded Research Projects, Department of Chemical Engineering.................................21
11 Pending Research Projects, Department of Chemical Engineering................................23
12 2001-02 ChE Advisory Board Members.......................................................................24



LIST OF FIGURES

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1 Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment..........................................................9
2 Chemical Engineering B.S. Graduates...........................................................................9
3 Student Demographics..............................................................................................11
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GENERAL NEWS

We have had another very good year this year. The biggest news is that our ABET
accreditation was completely positive. We have received another six year accreditation. There
were some minor criticisms of some of the content of the lower level engineering science
courses that chemical engineering faculty teach from the visitor who was assessing the
mechanical engineering department, but these criticisms have been dealt with easily. There
were no substantive negative comments from the chemical engineering assessor. Our next visit
in 2006 will be based upon new criteria and procedures and we must begin preparing for the
changes very soon.
We are proud of Christi Patton, winner of the Kermit E. Brown Award for Teaching
Excellence in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences. Sheila Kumpe was recognized as
a staff Super Star last spring.
We have established a new level of interaction with our alumni. We sent out cards
asking for personal updates in the Fall of 2000, then followed that up with a newsletter that
mailed late in the summer of 2001. We had so many personal updates to put in the newsletter,
we hardly had room for departmental news. We now have a modest e-mail list of alumni that we
will be adding to, and we hope all this interaction will pay off in student referrals, job
opportunities for students, departmental visibility, and departmental gifts.
Our biggest concern is still enrollment. We have had a poor year recruiting new students
into the program. The reason for this is unclear, but we are trying to focus recruiting efforts this
semester. Our retention of students has been better.
Tommy Russell has picked up some our teaching duties, teaching Gas Plant Design this
fall so Frank Manning could get a little research work done. Some of the faculty are attending the
class and learning a lot as well, so that we will reap benefits from this interaction far into the
future. We were also lucky to get Rich Thompson to come out of retirement to take two sections
of engineering thermo from Laura Ford who went on maternity leave earlier this month.
Finally, on the personal side and as mentioned above, Laura Ford has a new baby boy,
Elias. Congratulations to her and her husband Gregory. She will be back full time soon.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Laura Ford taught the Chemical Engineering Problem Solving and the Engineering
Science Fluid Mechanics classes again last spring. This fall semester she taught the first three
weeks of Engineering Science Thermodynamics.
Laura is advising three graduate students. Chunyang Wei is working on the chemical
vapor etching reactor. Cherie Almeida and Kimberly Carter, co-advised with Dr. Sublette, are
remediating oil and brine spills. Both Chunyang and Cherie will be graduating with master's
degrees this semester.
Laura got her first federally-funded grant from the Integrated Petroleum Environmental
Consortium in May 2001. The National Science Foundation is currently reviewing a CAREER
proposal, and the Petroleum Research Fund is reviewing a Type G (beginning professor)
proposal.
Laura is the academic advisor for the sophomore class and the faculty advisor for the
student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She is serving on the Fringe
Benefits Committee. Laura helped the E-Week Committee hold an Engineering and Natural
Sciences Open House in February 2001. 215 middle school students visited displays of
engineering and science principles that were run by university students.

Kraemer Luks recently completed a three-year grant from the National Science
Foundation to study the problem: effect of cosolvents on solute solubility in and separability
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between liquid phases in liquid-liquid-vapor equilibrium systems. During the last year the paper
(mentioned in last years report as under review) entitled Three-Phase Liquid-Liquid-Vapor
Equilibria of the Binary Mixture Carbon Dioxide + 1-Methylnaphthalene has appeared in the
J ournal of Chemical and Engineering Data [46, 679-682 (2001)]. A second paper
entitled Partial Miscibility Behavior of the Ternary Mixture Carbon Dioxide + 1-
Methylnaphthalene + Acetone has been accepted for publication in Fluid Phase Equilibria
and will be appearing shortly. Both of these papers were coauthored with Lydia Gutierrez. A
third more extensive paper on this research is being coauthored with Ms. Gutierrez, which
addresses the separate roles of polarity and solute-group similarity in cosolvent-enhanced
solubility. It should be submitted this fall.
Professor Luks is also working on fundamental classical thermodynamics problems in
the area of phase equilibrium computations. Collaboration continued with undergraduate
chemical engineering student J oseph Labadie. Since last year, two more papers coauthored
with Mr. Labadie have been accepted for publication and are in press:
The Continuous Phase Equilibrium Problem: Quadrature Compositional
Characterization and Asymptotic Convergence in I &EC Research; Computing Phase
Equilibria: How Gibbs Energy Considerations Reduce the Role of Rachford-Rice Analysis in
Chemical Engineering Education. A third paper with Mr. Labadie is currently being
written, addressing crystallization thermodynamics in complex systems. Professor Luks is
also studying he thermodynamic phase space topography of n-phase azeotropy from a
theoretical viewpoint.
Professor Luks is teaching ChE 3063, Equilibrium Thermodynamics and team-teaching
ChE 4003, Chemical Engineering Lab 1 with Dr. Patton this fall.

Frank Manning taught 8 courses (3 courses in the fall, 3 in the spring and 2 in the
summer) during the calendar year, September 2000 August 2001. In addition, Frank taught
two reviews (Introduction and Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Economics) of
the eight Saturday morning sessions for the F.E. examination. This F.E. review was offered in
both the fall and spring semesters. Frank also proctored the FE exam in April and in October
2001.
Frank Manning continues to serve as the Colleges designated representative to the
Midwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. He also serves as the
Colleges campus representative.
Frank also serves as the Colleges representative to the Faculty Financial Review
Committee in 2001/2002 and is also a member of the Faculty Development Summer Fellowship
Selection Committee.

Christi Patton continues to teach three classes per semester for the department. This
past year she taught ES 3053 (Engineering Thermodynamics), ChE 7863 (Advanced Problem
Solving in Chemical Engineering), ES 3073 (Heat Transfer), and ChE 7043 (Heat and Mass
Transfer) as well as team-taught ChE 4003 and 4013 (Senior Lab I and II) with Kraemer Luks.
Dr. Patton and Dr. Luks continue to upgrade the experiments in the laboratory as they work to
develop new experiments for the future. The course now has a greater emphasis on safety and
communications.
In addition to teaching, Christi has encouraged children to study science and engineering through
visits to several elementary, middle and high schools in the area and organizing SWE-Brownie
Science days. Last year more than 300 second and third grade Girl Scouts visited the University
of Tulsa to learn about polymers, water treatment plants, environmental clean-up, chemistry,
lasers and more.
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Christi also has worked to establish a chapter of Omega Chi Epsilon (the national Chemical
Engineering Honor Society) at TU. Once officers were elected and by-laws adopted, 21
undergraduate and graduate students were initiated into this charter group.

Geoffrey Price is in a final year of a grant supported by NSF and General Motors
researching zeolite based automotive emission catalysts. A jointly co-authored paper will be
presented by GM personnel at the AIChE meeting in early November on this research work, and
a full paper has been prepared and is waiting GM clearance for publication. GM has indicated
that they are interested in pursuing a renewal of the project and there is an ongoing effort to get
the proposal written. Amit Gujar, Dr. Prices PhD student who has been working on the GM/NSF
grant primarily making zeolites for the study, has been invited to spend the spring semester
working on the project at the GM research facility in Warren, Michigan. We are working on the
logistics and TU has cleared the visit as a legitimate field study so Amit can get university
research credit for the time he spends at GM.
Professors Price and Manning have a new project funded by BP/Amoco working on some
specialized combustion processes. Equipment is currently being fabricated by BP, which will be
installed soon up at the North Campus facility.
Professor Prices lab at TU is still in the building process, but enough progress has been
made so that a new NSF proposal entitled Novel Methods for Ion-Exchange of Zeolites has
been submitted to NSF. This proposal focuses on one of his research strengths, which is solid-
state ion-exchange.
In the area of teaching, Dr. Price has the same course schedule as last year. He teaches
ChE 4063 Reactor Design to the seniors in the fall, and ES 3053 Thermodynamics to all the
engineering students in the spring.

Chuck Sheppard is teaching the Graduate Kinetics and Reactor Design course (7033)
again this fall. Chuck, along with Keith Wisecarver and Mike Volk (Petroleum Engineering), are
conducting research on the Fundamentals of Delayed Coking J oint Industry Project. A paper
was presented at the spring AIChE meeting. This is the third year of three for this project. Most
of the 12 companies and DOE have indicated interest in renewing the project for an additional 3
years. Chucks fluidized catalytic cracker research is progressing with doctoral student Hisham
Bamufleh and masters students Deddy Donauw and Saeed S Al-Alloush.
Chuck has been active in the national AIChE/Center for Chemical Process Safety SACHE
(Safety and Chemical Engineering Education) committee (meeting quarterly). It is planned for
Chuck to lead a safety workshop for Chemical Engineering faculty in either Fall 2002 or Spring
2003.
As Graduate Student Advisor he reviews graduate applications and recommends which
students are to be evaluated by the graduate student selection committee for financial support.
This committee is open to all members of the chemical engineering department. This last year
many student applications were reviewed. New this fall are 9 students with 2 to 4 more coming
in the spring. Those who came included 1 TU trained student, 2 Arab supported students with
possibly two more due in the spring, and 6 Indian students with a seventh due in the spring
(supported on a research assistantship and university teaching assistantships). The graduate
program is growing with 32 students currently active.

Kerry Sublette organized and chaired the 7th International Petroleum Environmental
Conference held November 7-10, 2000 in Albuquerque, NM attended by approximately 350
education and industry personnel. Kerry has also been leading a major initiative to obtain
continued federal funding for the Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium (IPEC) which
is a joint effort of The University of Tulsa, The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
University, and The University of Arkansas. IPEC was successful in FY98 and FY99 in obtaining
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appropriations of $1.5 million in the VA/HUD Bill from the EPA account each year. IPEC received
appropriations for $750,000 for FY00 and FY01.
Kerry continues to lead a task force to raise funds for the construction and operation of
an ecological research station in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in cooperation with The Nature
Conservancy. The research station will consist of a 10,000-ft
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research and education building
featuring laboratories, classrooms, bunkrooms, and kitchen and mess facilities as well as long-
term housing for visiting scientists.
In December 1999 Kerry was instrumental in arranging the donation of the BioSep
patents from DuPont, which have been evaluated by PriceWaterhouseCoopers at $17 million.
BioSep is a unique immobilization matrix for microorganisms with wide ranging applications in
waste water and groundwater treatment. Kerry also serves as TUs technical champion for
BioSep raising money for additional research and seeking out technical development
partnerships.
Kerrys grant activity this year has included: 1) the restoration of soil ecosystems
following crude oil and brine spills (funded by DOE); 2) the biotreatment of hydrocarbon
contaminated air (funded by BP Amoco); and 3) bioreactor design for microbial oxidation of
sulfides (funded by DOE).
In addition to his extensive research activities, Kerry taught a course to non-science
majors entitled Ecosystem Damage and Recovery as well as ChE 4163 (Environmental
Engineering).

Keith Wisecarver has kept busy with research and teaching. Keith taught ChE 7003
(Fluid Mechanics) and co-taught ChE 4183 (Petroleum Refinery Design) with Dr. Manning. Keith
is currently advising or co-advising (with Chuck Sheppard) eight of our graduate students.
Keith's research interests are generally in the areas of petroleum refining processes and
multiphase reactors. Keith and Chuck Sheppard continue to be busy with the DOE/J oint Industry
Project "Fundamentals of Delayed Coking." The project has continued to grow; we now have 12
member companies in the J IP (Baker Petrolite, Chevron, Citgo, Conoco, Equilon, Exxon-Mobil,
Foster Wheeler, Great Lakes Carbon, KBC, Marathon-Ashland, Petrobras, and Suncor) and a
three-year budget of over $2 million. More information on this project is available at the
Fundamentals of Delayed Coking web site (http://www.tudcp.utulsa.edu). Keith was also a co-
investigator for a NSF CRCD (Combined Research and Curriculum Development) project on
Multiphase Transport Phenomena. Other research projects Keith is working on include fluid
catalytic cracking, gas-liquid reactor design, and Fischer-Tropsch processes.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
The quality of our undergraduate students continues to remain excellent. The following
seniors were recipients of the Wilbur L. Nelson Award for academic excellence at the annual
Awards Ceremony in April:


NAME CURRENT POSITION
David L. Bradford Conoco
Nina V. Korzhova Conoco
Zola Afonso ChE Masters program
Ryan M. Moore Phillips Petroleum
J ill J . Brant Kellogg, Brown & Root
Daniel Z. Murphy December 01 graduate

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Undergraduate enrollment in the Department of Chemical Engineering continues to
decline. We have 14 fewer students this year than last, which can be attributed largely to two
effects. About half the decline is due to graduating more students than we recruited into the
freshman class and the other half is principally due to a loss of last years freshmen, translating
to fewer sophomores. We were aware of this problem when the Advisory Board met last year
and have already taken steps in our freshman classes to improve retention. Retention of
students has been much better since then.
Table 1 shows enrollment figures over the past twenty-two years. Figures 1 and 2 show
how chemical engineering enrollments and B.S. degrees have changed over the years.
Table 2 shows the demographics of the undergraduate student body. Female students
and international students as percentages of the total for recent years are shown in Figure 3.
The number of female students is down, while the number of international students is up. The
Middle East still dominates the countries of origin among international students accounting for
60% of those students. The great majority of international students are male (92%); among
U.S. students, females account for almost 32% of the total.
Table 3 shows the distribution of jobs for the December 2000 through December 2001
graduates. It has been another good year for employment for our students. As in the past, the
majority of job offers were in energy-related fields. Two of the students who will graduate in
December 2001 have multiple job offers on the table, two are still interviewing, two have
decided to go to graduate school, and one will be returning to his country.
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TABLE 1. Recent Undergraduate Enrollment Data at Census Date

Enrollments
Year Fr Soph J r Sr PT Total B.S.Degrees
1980-81 31 36 24 32 10 133 30
1981-82 24 43 34 24 13 134 21
1982-83 32 36 44 32 12 145 30
1983-84 32 34 32 45 13 147 33
1984-85 24 33 27 30 7 114 32
1985-86 25 24 18 28 7 95 32
1986-87 21 33 17 16 1 88 13
1987-88 16 21 18 27 1 82 21
1988-89 20 23 15 26 0 84 19
1989-90 25 17 15 29 4 86 25
1990-91 19 20 17 16 3 72 15
1991-92 38 33 20 10 1 101 8
1992-93 38 41 34 22 0 135 16
1993-94 43 35 51 36 2 167 28
1994-95 38 38 32 54 1 163 40
1995-96 44 34 46 52 3 179 49
1996-97 24 44 30 59 -- 157 51
1997-98 32 18 41 33 -- 124 25
1998-99 27 26 20 43 -- 116 32
1999-00 25 25 25 29 -- 104 23
2000-01 23 17 21 22 -- 83 21
2001-02 15 12 15 27 -- 69






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TABLE 2. Undergraduate Student Demographics


Year Class Men Women International Total
2001-02 Fr 11 4 8 15
So 9 3 5 12
J r 9 6 6 15
Sr 18 9 6 27
Total 47 22 25 69
(68.1%) (31.9%) (36.2%)

International Students

Fr So J r Sr Total
Angola 2 2
Costa Rica 1 1
Ethiopia 1 1
India 1 1 2
Indonesia 1 1
J ordan 1 1
Oman 1 1
Qatar 1 1 2
Saudi Arabia 3 2 5
United Arab Emir. 2 2 2 6
United Kingdom 1 1
Venezuela 2 2
Total 8 5 6 6 25

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Figure 3: Student Demographics
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TABLE 3. December 2000 December 2001 Chemical Engineering B.S. Graduates

Name Grad.
Date
Current Employment
Saeed, Adel Dec. 00
Detherow, Dustin Dec. 00 Ozark Fluorine Specialties, Inc.
Vullum, Fride Dec. 00 TU Graduate School (ChE)
Adams, Lula Dec. 00 Ford Visteon Glass Plant
Brown, J ason A. Dec. 00 Schlumberger
Al-J unaibi, Omar Dec. 00
Carter, Kimberly Dec. 00 TU Graduate School (ChE)
Hirt, Eric Dec. 00
Al-Ghamdi, Ahmad May 01
Afonso, Zola May 01 TU Graduate School (ChE)
Bradford, David May 01 Conoco
Brant, J ill May 01 Kellogg, Brown & Root
Edwards, Deana May 01 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Hill, Patricia May 01 BP Amoco
Korzhova, Nina May 01 Conoco
Moore, Ryan May 01 Phillips Petroleum
Nichols, J acqueline May 01
Vokoun, Aaron May 01 Williams Companies
Al-Badi, Abdulaziz Aug. 01
Le, Thi Aug. 01
Mayfield, Christopher Aug. 01 Schlumberger
Binsomait, Abdulla Dec. 01 To Return to the UAE
Laeger, J ohn Dec. 01
Murphy, Daniel Dec. 01
Shrimanker, Amisha Dec. 01 To attend TU Graduate School (ChE)
Slusarchuk, Karma Dec. 01
Dominguez Guidi, J acquelyn (Taylor) Dec. 01
Williamson, J ohannie Dec. 01 To attend TU Graduate School (MBA)


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TABLE 4. Current Chemical Engineering Seniors

Al-Kathir, Mohamed
Ali, Faisal
Baker, Misha
Battle, Terriekka
Binsomait, Abdulla
Bogatko, J oseph
Calvert, Errol
Dominguez Guidi, J acquelyn (Taylor)
Farr, Leela
Hulsey, Kevin
Hunter, Brett
Kelderhouse, Benjamin
Labadie, J oseph
Laeger, J ohn
Murphy, Daniel
Nataatmadja, Triaman
Nelson, Eric
Orf, J ason
Owen, Isaac
Pim, Kelly
Sharief, Mubashir
Sharp, Suzanne
Shrimanker, Amisha
Slusarchuk, Karma
Sublet, J ohnathan
Talley, Ryan
Williamson, J ohannie


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GRADUATE PROGRAM

Chuck Sheppard took over as Graduate Program Director three years ago. Graduate enrollment
this year increased quite a bit from the previous year. Those who joined us since the last status report
includes 1 U.S. trained student and 3 TU trained students, 2 Arab supported students with possibly two
more due in the spring, and 6 Indian students with a seventh due in the spring (supported on a research
assistantship and university teaching assistantships). The enrollment figures are shown in Table 5,
while Table 6 lists last years Masters graduates. There were no Ph.D. graduates. Table 7 shows the
graduate student demographics for recent years. As you can see, the percentage of female students has
increased and the percentage of international students has decreased slightly due to the addition of U.S.
part-time students, which total 4 this semester. Table 8 gives the graduate student enrollment at the
universitys census date.
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TABLE 5. Recent Graduate Enrollment Data

Fall Enrollment Graduates.
Year Full-Time Part-Time MS* PhD Total Masters PhD
1981-82 16 12 20 8 28 9 2
1982-83 19 14 26 7 33 8 3
1983-84 24 9 22 11 33 14 2
1984-85 31 9 25 15 40 9 3
1985-86 26 6 21 11 32 11 2
1986-87 24 7 19 12 31 8 3
1987-88 19 6 11 14 25 3 4
1988-89 21 9 19 11 30 5 1
1989-90 19 6 16 9 25 7 1
1990-91 23 4 18 9 27 2 4
1991-92 27 3 18 12 30 8 1
1992-93 35 6 26 15 41 7 4
1993-94 40 7 33 14 47 8 4
1994-95 33 8 29 12 41 11 4
1995-96 33 4 24 13 37 12 4
1996-97 25 2 16 10 27 4 2
1997-98 22 1 17 6 23 5 1
1998-99 21 1 16 6 22 6 0
1999-00 22 3 16 9 25 5 0
2000-01 24 2 17 8 25 5 0
2001-02 28 4 27 5 32

* Includes M.E. students
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TABLE 6. 2000-01 Chemical Engineering
Masters and Ph.D. graduates


M.S. degree

Saad Saad Al-Hajri
Talal Khamis Al-Wahaibi
Lydia Gutierrez
Hassan Murizen Asiree
J in Wang

Ph.D. degree

None
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TABLE 7. Nature of Graduate Student Body

Category 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02

Full-Time 89% 89% 96% 91% 88% 92% 88%
Part-Time 11% 11% 4% 9% 12% 8% 12%

Masters 65% 63% 74% 73% 64% 68% 84%
PhD 35% 37% 26% 27% 36% 32% 16%

Male 84% 81% 87% 95% 80% 80% 72%
Female 16% 19% 13% 5% 20% 20% 28%

International 81% 70% 70% 73% 72% 72% 69%


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TABLE 8. Current Chemical Engineering Graduate Students


Name Started Program Citizenship Advisor
Afonso, Zola Spring 01 MS Angola Wisecarver/
Sheppard
Almeida, Cherie Nebel Fall 99 MS USA Sublette/Ford
Al-Alloush, Saeed Fall 01 MS Saudi Arabia Sheppard
Al-Aqeel, Mohammad Fall 01 MS Saudi Arabia Wisecarver
Al-Hashmi, Abdul-Aziz Spring 01 MS Oman (temporarily returned
home)
Al-Merri, Hamad Spring 98 PhD Kuwait Wisecarver/
Sheppard
Bamufleh, Hisham Fall 97 PhD Saudi Arabia Wisecarver/
Sheppard
Boone, Marjorie Fall 01 MS USA (not assigned)
Bu-Naiyan, Ahmad Fall 00 MS Saudi Arabia Wisecarver
Carter, Kimberly Spring 01 MS USA Sublette/Ford
Chandrasekaran, Sumathi Fall 01 MS India Ford
Deshpande, Rohit Fall 01 MS India Mitra/Ford
Donauw, Deddy Fall 00 MS Indonesia Sheppard
Fidler, Brandy Fall 00 PhD USA Sublette
Gujar, Amit Fall 00 PhD India Price
Hawkins, Claude Shack Fall 00 MS USA Sheppard
Hogue, J oshua Fall 00 MS USA Sheppard
Holderman, Robert Fall 01 MS USA (part-time)
Keller, J oleen Fall 97 MS USA (part-time)
Kumar, Atul Fall 01 MS India DiCesare
Matteson, Mike Fall 99 MS USA (part-time)
Mehta, Chintan Fall 00 MS India Sublette
Moralwar, Aditya Fall 01 MS India Sublette/Ford
Nugali, Safwan Fall 00 MS Saudi Arabia Wisecarver
Pasikki, Riza Fall 00 MS Indonesia Harris
Robles, Marco Fall 00 MS Peru Harris
Stapley, Larry Fall 01 MS USA (part-time)
Subbiah, Rajesh Fall 01 MS India Teeters
Vullum, Fride Fall 99 MS Norway Harris
Wei, Chunyang Fall 99 PhD China Ford
Yalamanchili, Srikanth Fall 01 MS India Wisecarver/
Sheppard
Zambrano, Tomas Fall 99 MS Venezuela Wisecarver/
Sheppard

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RESEARCH

Research in the department decreased slightly from last year as shown in Table 9. New grants
were up considerably but continued grants declined.
Table 10 lists the new and continued external grants for the department.
Table 11 lists pending contracts as of May, 2001. These figures are not included in the Total
Research Dollars in Table 9. The pending contracts would add a nice sum if the majority are funded.

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TABLE 9. External Funding
Department of Chemical Engineering*


Year Research Dollars
1985-86 $407,806
1986-87 $142,419
1987-88 $524,708
1988-89 $558,449
1989-90 $806,088
1990-91 $927,225
1991-92 $1,158,767
1992-93 $1,036,617
1993-94 $859,285
1994-95 $816,841
1995-96 $698,085
1996-97 $1,080,404
1997-98 $1,031,216
1998-99 $3,526,292
1999-00 $2,977,733
2000-01 $2,039,684

*Numbers based on the University of Tulsa Office of Research 2000-2001 Annual Report, which includes
new and continued contracts. Does not include pending contracts.

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TABLE 10. Funded Research Projects
Department of Chemical Engineering*


NEW GRANTS (as of May, 2001)

P.I . Source Title Amount
Laura Ford
Tom Harris
Kerry Sublette
IPEC Remediation of Brine Spills with Hay $79,103
Laura Ford
Tom Harris
Kerry Sublette
Shell E&P Company Remediation of Brine Spills with Hay $32,000
Pat Hall
Nancy Felts
Kerry Sublette
U.S. Department of
Energy
7
th
Annual International Petroleum
Environmental Conference
$27,000
Geoffrey Price National Science
Foundation
GOALI: High Stability Copper Zeolites for
Lean N
ox
Automotive Catalysis
$115,354
Geoffrey Price General Motors
Corporation
GOALI: High Stability Copper Zeolites for
Lean N
ox
Automotive Catalysis
$17,910
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools
Implementation Project
$60,000
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools
Implementation Project
$66,962
Kerry Sublette
Laura Ford
U.S. Department of
Energy
Risk Reduction and Soil Ecosystem
Restoration in an Active Oil-Producing
Area in an Ecologically Sensitive Setting
$258,797
Kerry Sublette
Laura Ford
U.S. Department of
Energy
Risk Reduction and Soil Ecosystem
Restoration in an Active Oil-Producing
Area in an Ecologically Sensitive Setting
$4,501
Kerry Sublette
Laura Ford
U.S. Department of
Energy
Risk Reduction and Soil Ecosystem
Restoration in an Active Oil-Producing
Area in an Ecologically Sensitive Setting
$1,870
Kerry Sublette
Laura Ford
U.S. Department of
Energy
Risk Reduction and Soil Ecosystem
Restoration in an Active Oil-Producing
Area in an Ecologically Sensitive Setting
$5,508
Kerry Sublette BP Amoco Biotreatment of Hydrocarbon
Contaminated Air
$11,535
TOTAL $680,540
*Numbers based on the University of Tulsa Office of Research 2000-2001 Annual Report

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CONTI NUED GRANTS (as of May, 2001)

P.I . Source Title Amount
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Training/Development (Supplement)
$3,000
Chuck Sheppard
Mike Volk
Keith Wisecarver
Various companies Fundamentals of Delayed Coking, Year 3 of
3
$240,000
Chuck Sheppard
Mike Volk
Keith Wisecarver
U.S. Department of
Energy, National
Petroleum
Technology Office
Fundamentals of Delayed Coking, Year 3 of
3 (J IP match)
$335,000
Kerry Sublette Lockheed Martin
Idaho Technologies
Co.
Bioreactor Design and Demonstration for
Microbial Oxidation of Sulfides Year 2
$117,438
Kerry Sublette The University of
Oklahoma
IPEC (match-Shah) $89,843
Kerry Sublette The University of
Oklahoma
IPEC (match-Suflita & Ulrich) $190,000
Kerry Sublette The University of
Oklahoma
IPEC (match-Nanny) $116,370
Kerry Sublette The University of
Oklahoma
IPEC (match-Fletcher) $84,580
Kerry Sublette Oklahoma State
University
IPEC (match-Apblett $20,000
Kerry Sublette Oklahoma State
University
IPEC (match-Lanno) $85,945
Kerry Sublette Oklahoma State
University
IPEC Technology Transfer (match) $76,968
TOTAL $1,359,144
*Numbers based on the University of Tulsa Office of Research 2000-2001 Annual Report

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TABLE 11. Pending Research Projects
Department of Chemical Engineering*


PENDI NG GRANTS (as of May, 2001)

P.I. Source Title Amount
Pat Hall
Kerry Sublette
Nancy Felts
U.S. Department of
Energy (NPTO Office)
7
th
Annual International Petroleum
Environmental Conference
$27,000
Peter LoPresti
Francis Manning
Integrated Petroleum
Environmental
Consortium
Locating Oil-Water Interfaces in
Process Vessels
$19,982
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Indoor Air Quality Tools for
Schools Training-Region 9
$25,000
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Childrens Health Project:
Developing an Asthma
Assessment Tool for Homes & Day
Cares-Region 6
$33,934
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Schools Implementation of Tools
for Schools Kit-Region 6
$70,335
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Healthy Home Program
Development-Region 6
$75,270
Richard
Shaughnessy
Housing & Urban
Development,
Healthy Homes
Demonstration &
Education
Environmental Assessment Tools
to Address Multiple Health &
Safety Hazards in Low-Income
Minority Homes
$880,206
Richard
Shaughnessy
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Tools for Schools Implementation
Project-Region 4
$50,000
Kerry Sublette University of
Arkansas
A Mesoscale Laboratory
Investigation of the Fate of
Hydrocarbons in the Vadose Zone:
The Microbial Ecology of Natural
Attenuation Processes
$16,627
Kerry Sublette Chevron Ecological Indicators of the
Restoration of Soil Ecosystems
$124,480
Kerry Sublette U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
National Center for
Environmental
Research and Quality
Assurance
Integrated Petroleum
Environmental Consortium (IPEC),
Year 4
$2,000,000
TOTAL $3,322,834
*Numbers not included in Table 9, External Funding. These are for informational purposes only.

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Table 12. 2001-02 ChE Advisory Board Members

(1) Ellen Boyer
Femgineering
2206 Stafford
Arlington, TX 76012
VOICE: (817) 460-6777
FAX: (309) 273-2848
CELL: (817) 296-3914
Femgineering@email.com

(2) Brian Habeck
Dow Chemical Company
West Virginia Operations
P.O. Box 8004, Bldg. 50
South Charleston, WV 25303
VOICE: (304) 747-1757
FAX: (304) 747-3125
PAGER: (304) 341-1889
habeckbd@ucarb.com

(3) Brenda Habeck
DuPont Corporation
Washington Works
P.O. Box 1217
Parkersburg, WV 26102
VOICE: (304) 863-4561
FAX: (304) 863-4641
brenda.k.habeck@usa.dupont.com

(4) Jay Hawkins
Account Manager
NALCO/Exxon Energy Chemicals, L.P.
605 Robinwood Drive
Robinson, IL 62454
VOICE: (618) 546-1132
jehawkins@nalcoexxon.com

(5) John D. Hottovy
Phillips Petroleum Company
101-G PRC
Bartlesville, OK 74004
VOICE: (918) 661-9595
FAX: (918) 661-1709
jdhotto@bvemx.ppco.com

(6) Dan Lansdown
Domain Engineering Inc.
406 S. Boulder, Suite 234
Tulsa, OK 74103
VOICE: (918) 582-4280, Ext. 11
FAX: (918) 582-4283
dan.lansdown@domain-engineering.com
(7) Reed Melton
President
ThermaTran, Inc.
P.O. Box 35725
Tulsa, OK 74153-0725
VOICE: (918) 748-4406
FAX: (918) 481-5123
thermatran@home.com

(8) Bob Purinton
Tulsa Heaters, Inc.
1350 S. Boulder, Suite 800
Tulsa, OK 74119-3207
VOICE: (918) 582-9918
FAX: (918) 582-9916
bobpurinton@tulsaheaters.com

(9) Wayne Rumley
President
R&R Engineering Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 700005
Tulsa, OK 74170
VOICE: (918) 252-2571
FAX: (918) 252-2574
WRUMLEY@coolersbyRR.com

(10) Thomas H. Russell
T.H. Russell LLC
4222 E. 72
nd
Place
Tulsa, OK 74136
VOICE: (918) 481-5682
FAX: (918) 492-7828
t_h_Russell@attglobal.net

(11) Mike Soper, M.D.
Soper Eye Center
329 S. 38
th
Street
Muskogee, OK 74401
VOICE: (918) 687-9998
FAX: (918) 687-4135
sopereyecenter@hotmail.com

(12) Tom Steiner
Engineering Director
Vapor Recovery Products
John Zink Company
6831 S. 29
th
W. Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74132
VOICE: (918) 234-2953
FAX: (918) 234-1968
steinert@kochind.com
(13) Kent Van Valkenburgh
Vanco Engineering
7033 E. 40th
Tulsa, OK 74145-4523
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VOICE: (918) 627-1920
FAX: (918) 627-6742
kent@vanco-inc.com

(14) W. Wayne Wilson
Manager
Process Technology and Optimization
Conoco, Inc.
P. O. Box 1267
Ponca City, OK 74602-1267
VOICE: (580) 767-3280
FAX: (580) 767-3579
w-wayne.wilson@usa.conoco.com

(15) Stephen Yeretsky
2310 Butler Drive
Friendswood, TX 77546
VOICE: (281) 482-1405
sjyere@hypercon.com