Presidential Professor
B.A. Chemistry, Oxford University, 1955
S.M. Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, 1957
ScD. Chemical Engineering, MIT, 1962
1452 East 155 South
380 INSCC
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1114
Phone: 801-585-9258
Fax: 801-585-1456
email: sarofim[@]mit.edu
Office: 380 INSCC
Biographical Sketch
Adel F. Sarofim is Presidential Professor in the College of Engineering, University of Utah, co-director of the Utah Clean Coal Program, and Senior Technical Advisor to Reaction Engineering International in Salt Lake City. He was affiliated with MIT from 1958-1996 as an Instructor in Chemical Engineering in 1958 and 1960; Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering from 1961-1967; Associate Professor from 1967 to 1972; and Full Professor in Chemical Engineering since 1972. He held the position of Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT from 1989-1996, Emeritus from October 1, 1996. Dr. Sarofim has been a Visiting Professor at Sheffield University, England, the University of Naples, Italy; and at the California Institute of Technology.
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.
