Professor, Chemistry
Biographical Sketch:
Eyring was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Goettingen, Germany in 1960-1961. His research supervisor that year was Professor Manfred Eigen. Eyring began a tenure track Assistant Professor appointment on the Chemistry faculty at the University of Utah in Fall, 1961. He was promoted in rank to Associate Professor in 1965 and to Professor in 1968. He served as Department Chair in 1973-76 and again in 1984-1985. He served in 1993- 1996 as Associate Dean of the College of Science. Eyring has coauthored over three hundred refereed scientific publications. In the first few years of his professorial career Eyring specialized in what were then called "fast reaction" rates and mechanism studies in liquid solutions using relaxation methods learned in Eigen's lab. He later branched out into applications of lasers, elevated pressure techniques, and infrared spectoscopies in investigations of liquid and solid state systems. In this evolution of chemical interests Eyring and his students have developed expertise in preparation and evaluation of heterogeneous catalysts that have practical applications in areas such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of vehicle fuels and in the selective capture and release of gases such as xenon at high dilution and carbon dioxide. Eyring's many former graduate students and postdoctoral students have had notably successful careers in industry and academia. Over a teaching career at the University of Utah spanning almost fifty years, Eyring has lectured several thousand General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry undergraduates. One of the notable firsts in his teaching was his use of "service learning" concepts to show freshman chemists how their new knowledge of chemistry can mitigate the hazards posed by the element lead in the environment of low income families.Publications
Journal & Book Publications
Covington, Daniel; Webster, Matthew C.; Pugmire, Ronald J.; Ernst, Richard D.; Dunn, Brian C.; Cole, Paul; Eyring, Edward M.; Shah, Naresh; Huffman, Gerald P., Silica aerogel supported catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (Abstract only), 2005
Cole, Paul; Pugmire, Ronald J.; Meuzelaar, Henk L. C.; Dunn, Brian C.; Covington, Daniel J.; Ernst, Richard D.; Heider, Emily C.; Eyring, Edward M.; Shah, Naresh; Huffman, Gerald P.; Seehra, M. S.; Manivannan, A.; Dutta, P., Silica xerogel supported cobalt metal Fischer-Tropsch catalysts for syngas to diesel range fuel conversion (Abstract only), 2004
Hilton, Steven A.; Pahnke, Jorg; Eyring, Edward M.; Dunn, Brian C.; Guenneau, Catherine; Dworzanski, Jacek; Meuzelaar, Henk L. C.; Hu, J. Z.; Solum, Mark S.; Pugmire, Ronald J., Production of diethyl carbonate from ethanol and carbon monoxide over a heterogeneous catalyst (Abstract only), 2002
Kim, Dae Jung; Dunn, Brian C.; Cole, Paul; Turpin, Greg; Ernst, Richard D.; Pugmire, Ronald J.; Kang, Min; Kim, Ji Man; Eyring, Edward M., Enhancement in the reducibility of cobalt oxides on a mesoporous silica supported cobalt catalyst (Abstract only), 2005
Eyring, E. M.; Konya, G.; Lighty, J. S.; Sahir, A. H.; Sarofim, A. F.; Whitty, K., Chemical Looping with Copper Oxide as Carrier and Coal as Fuel (Abstract only), Apr 12, 2011
Topical Reports
Eyring, Edward M.; Konya, Gabor, Chemical looping combustion kinetics, Dec 01, 2009
Sarofim, Adel F.; Lighty, JoAnn S.; Smith, Philip J.; Whitty, Kevin J.; Eyring, Edward; Sahir, Asad; Alvarez, Milo; Hradisky, Michael; Clayton, Chris; Konya, Gabor; Baracki, Richard; Kelly, Kerry, Chemical Looping Combustion Reactions and Systems Task 5 Topical Report, Utah Clean Coal Program - Reporting Period October 2008 to March 2011, Aug 2011
Conference Papers
Baraki, Richard; Tucker, Kevin R.; Konya, Gabor; Ring, Terry A.; Eyring, Edward M.; Sarofim, Adel F., Effect of pressure on copper/copper-oxide system functioning as an oxygen carrier in chemical looping combustion, Jun 10, 2010
Conference Presentations
Lighty, J. S.; Sahir, A. H.; Sarofim, A. F.; Clayton, C. K.; Whitty, K. J.; Eyring, E. M.; Konya, G., Coal Combustion using Chemical Looping with Copper Oxide as Carrier, Aug 06, 2010
Baraki, Richard; Konya, Gabor; Eyring, Edward M., Copper functioning as an oxygen carrier in chemical looping combustion, Nov 12, 2010
Baraki, Richard; Konya, Gabor; Wang, H. Paul; Eyring, Edward M., Investigation of the reaction kinetics of oxygen carriers in chemical looping combustion (Abstract only), Sep 24, 2009
Eyring, E. M.; Konya, G.; Lighty, JoAnn S.; Sahir, Asad H.; Sarofim, Adel F.; Whitty, K., "Chemical looping with copper oxide as carrier and coal as fuel", 1st International Conference on Chemical Looping (Abstract only), Mar 2010
Lighty, JoAnn S.; Sarofim, Adel F.; Sahir, Asad H.; Eyring, E. M.; Konya, G., Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling: Design calculations and process engineering simulations using kinetic data (Abstract only), Oct 2010
Eyring, E.; Wang, H. P., Chemical structure of CuO-NiO/chabazite oxygen carrier in chemical-looping combustion (Abstract only), Mar 26, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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