STATUS REPORT

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

The University of Tulsa 600 South College Ave.

Tulsa, OK 74104

SEPTEMBER, 2000 - AUGUST, 2001

The University of Tulsa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. For EEO/AA information, contact the Office of Legal Compliance at (918) 631-2423; for disability accommodation, contact Dr. Jane Corso at (918) 631-2315.

2

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S Page 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 Figure 1 Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment..........................................................9 2 Chemical Engineering B.S. Graduates...........................................................................9 3 Student Demographics ..............................................................................................11

3

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

4

between liquid phases in liquid-liquid-vapor equilibrium systems. During the last year the paper (mentioned in last year’s report as “under review”) entitled Three-Phase Liquid-Liquid-Vapor Equilibria of the Binary Mixture Carbon Dioxide + 1-Methylnaphthalene has appeared in the Journal 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 Joseph 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 College’s designated representative to the Midwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. He also serves as the College’s campus representative.

Frank also serves as the College’s 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.

5

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. Price’s 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 Price’s 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 Joint 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. Chuck’s 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

6

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-ft2 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 TU’s technical champion for BioSep™ raising money for additional research and seeking out technical development partnerships. Kerry’s 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/Joint Industry Project "Fundamentals of Delayed Coking." The project has continued to grow; we now have 12 member companies in the JIP (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 Master’s program Ryan M. Moore Phillips Petroleum Jill J. Brant Kellogg, Brown & Root Daniel Z. Murphy December ’01 graduate

7

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 year’s 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.

8

TABLE 1. Recent Undergraduate Enrollment Data at Census Date Enrollments

Year Fr Soph Jr 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

Figure 1: Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment

0

50

100

150

200

’80-’81

’81-’82

’82-’83

’83-’84

’84-’85

’85-’86

’86-’87

’87-’88

’88-’89

’89-’90

’90-’91

’91-’92

’92-’93

’93-’94

’94-’95

’95-’96

’96-’97

’97-’98

’98-’99

’99-’00

00-'01 01-'02

Year

Nu

mb

er o

f S

tud

ents

Figure 2: Chemical Engineering B.S. Graduates

0

20

40

60

’80-’81

’81-’82

’82-’83

’83-’84

’84-’85

’85-’86

’86-’87

’87-’88

’88-’89

’89-’90

’90-’91

’91-’92

’92-’93

’93-’94

’94-’95

’95-’96

’96-’97

’97-’98

’98-’99

’99-’00

00-'01

Year

Nu

mb

er o

f G

rad

uat

es

10

TABLE 2. Undergraduate Student Demographics Year Class Men Women International Total 2001-02 Fr 11 4 8 15 So 9 3 5 12 Jr 9 6 6 15 Sr 18 9 6 27 Total 47 22 25 69 (68.1%) (31.9%) (36.2%)

International Students Fr So Jr Sr Total Angola 2 2 Costa Rica 1 1 Ethiopia 1 1 India 1 1 2 Indonesia 1 1 Jordan 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

11

Figure 3: Student Demographics

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

’92-’93 ’93-’94 ’94-’95 ’95-’96 ’96-’97 ’97-’98 ’98-’99 ’99-’00 00-'01 01-'02

% female% international

12

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, Jason A. Dec. ‘00 Schlumberger Al-Junaibi, 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, Jill 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, Jacqueline 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, John Dec. ‘01 Murphy, Daniel Dec. ‘01 Shrimanker, Amisha Dec. ‘01 To attend TU Graduate School (ChE) Slusarchuk, Karma Dec. ‘01 Dominguez Guidi, Jacquelyn (Taylor) Dec. ‘01 Williamson, Johannie Dec. ‘01 To attend TU Graduate School (MBA)

13

TABLE 4. Current Chemical Engineering Seniors

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

14

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 year’s 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 university’s census date.

15

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

16

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 Jin Wang Ph.D. degree None

17

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%

18

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, Joshua Fall ‘00 MS USA Sheppard Holderman, Robert Fall ‘01 MS USA (part-time) Keller, Joleen 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

19

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.

20

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.

21

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

7th Annual International Petroleum Environmental Conference

$27,000

Geoffrey Price National Science Foundation

GOALI: High Stability Copper Zeolites for Lean Nox Automotive Catalysis

$115,354

Geoffrey Price General Motors Corporation

GOALI: High Stability Copper Zeolites for Lean Nox 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

22

CONTINUED 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 (JIP 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

23

TABLE 11. Pending Research Projects Department of Chemical Engineering*

PENDING GRANTS (as of May, 2001) P.I. Source Title Amount Pat Hall Kerry Sublette Nancy Felts

U.S. Department of Energy (NPTO Office)

7th 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

Children’s Health Project: Developing an Asthma Assessment Tool for Homes & Day Cares-Region 6

$33,934

Richard Shaughnessy

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

School’s 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.

24

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. 72nd 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. 38th 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. 29th 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

25

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