Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 1988
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 1992
50 South Central Campus Drive
Room 3290
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1114
Phone: 801-585-3931
Fax: 801-581-9291
Email: eddings[@]che.utah.edu
Office: 3290 MEB
Biographical Sketch
Prof. Eddings' research interests encompass:
1) formation, control and fate of air pollutants, for a variety of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels
2) soot formation and large hydrocarbon reaction mechanisms
3) heat transfer and fluid dynamics in hydrocarbon fires
4) behavior of high-energy materials exposed to fire environments
5) characterization of transportation fuels and minimization of particulate emmissions in commercial engines
Prof. Eddings has been involved in both experimental and computational work, and these studies have been carried out with a wide variety of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels for a range of industries, which include the electric utility, cement, metallurgical, chemical process and pulp and paper industries. The experimental work encompasses fundamental lab-scale research through pilot-scale verification. Prof. Eddings is Leader of the Validation Team in the Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions (C-SAFE), whose ten-year mission is to develop large-scale, massively-parallel simulations of explosives engulfed in large-scale hydrocarbon pool fires. Prof. Eddings is also Experimental Lead of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy at the University of Utah, with responsibility over two laboratory sties, including the 20,000 sq. ft. Industrial Combustion and Gasification Research Facility (ICGRF). The ICGRF houses a wide variety of pilot-scale combustion facilities for use in process evaluation, model validation and technology development.
