BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH（报告人简介）

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.

Honors and Awards
Sir Alfred Egerton Gold Medal, The Combustion Institute; 1984,Kuwait Prize for Petrochemical Engineering, 1983; Walter Ahlström Prize, The Finnish Academies of Technology, 1993; Homer H. Lowry Award in Fossil Energy, Department of Enegy, 1996;  Percy Nicholls Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fuels
and Combustion Technology Division, 1996;  Lawrence K. Cecil Award, Environmental Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1998; Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, Honoris Causa, University of Naples “Federico II”, 1998; Energy Systems Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000;
Member, National Academy of Engineers, 2003; George Westinghouse Gold Medal, ASME, 2004.