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Dr. Philip (Phil) J. Smith

Director

B.S. Physics, Brigham Young University, 1975
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1975
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1976
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 1979

Biographical Sketch:

  • Professor Philip J. Smith is the director of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE), a multidisciplinary research program for understanding the technical, policy and environmental issues for clean coal energy production and utilization.
  • He is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah.
  • He is also the chair of the American Flame Research Committee (AFRC) of the International Flame Research Foundation
  • Prof. Smith has been responsible for the hydrocarbon fire simulation aspects of CSAFE, the Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions, for the past 13 years. CSAFE is one of five DOE funded Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) university alliance centers with the purpose of advancing simulation science pedagogy.
  • In 1990 he was one of three founding partners of Reaction Engineering International, a consulting firm that uses coal combustion simulation software developed by him and his students for problem solving and design of coal and natural gas combustion boilers, furnaces and gasifiers.
  • In the 1980's he was an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering and the the lead faculty member for the coal combustion simulation development in the NSF Engineering Research Center (ACERC) at Brigham Young University.
  • He is a Canadian from Southern Alberta, raises Arabian horses and lives with his wife in Draper, Utah.

Publications

Journal & Book Publications

Julien Pedel, Jeremy N. Thornock, Philip J. Smith, Large eddy simulation of pulverized coal jet flame ignition using the direct quadrature method of moments, 2012

Parente, A.; Sutherland, J. C.; Dally, B. B.; Tognotti, L.; Smith, P. J., Investigation of the MILD combustion regime via Principal Component Analysis, Sep 2010

Hunsaker, Isaac L.; Glaze, David J.; Thornock, Jeremy N.; Smith, Philip J., Virtual Radiometers for Parallel Architectures - PrePrint, 2012

Wu, Yuxin; Smith, Philip J.; Zhang, Jiansheng; Thornock, Jeremy N.; Yue, Guangxi, Effects of turbulent mixing and controlling mechanisms in an entrained flow coal gasifier, 2009

Smith, Philip J.; Krishnamoorthy, Gautham; Rawat, Rajesh, Parallelization of the P-1 radiation model, 2006

Smith, Philip J.; Krishnamoorthy, Gautham; Rawat, Rajesh, Parallel computations of radiative heat transfer using the discrete ordinates method (Abstract only), 2005

J. Pedel, J.N. Thornock, S.T. Smith, P.J. Smith, Large eddy simulation of coal particles in turbulent coaxial jets using the direct quadrature method of moments, 2012

Smith, Philip J.; Voth, Gregory A.; Wight, Charles A.; Henderson, Thomas C.; McMurtry, Patrick A.; Pershing, David W., Simulating accidental fires and explosions (Abstract only), Mar 2000

J.Pedel, J. N. Thornock, P.J. Smith, Ignition of co-axial turbulent diffusion oxy-coal jet flames: experiments and simulations collaboration, 2012

Domino, Stefan P.; Smith, Philip J., State space sensitivity to a prescribed probability density function shape in coal combustion system: Joint B-PDF versus clipped Gaussian PDF, 2000

Topical Reports

Baxter, Larry L.; Eddings, Eric G.; Fletcher, Thomas H.; Kelly, Kerry E.; Lighty, JoAnn S.; Pugmire, Ronald J.; Sarofim, Adel F.; Silcox, Geoffrey D.; Smith, Philip J.; Thornock, Jeremy N.; Wendt, Jost O. L.; Whitty, Kevin J., Clean coal program research activities: Final report: Reporting period 07/01/2006-05/31/2009, May 2010

Allen, Richardson; Deo, Milind D.; Isaacson, Alan E.; Keiter, Robert B.; Kessler, Christopher; Levey, Raymond; Oh, Keyong S.; Smith, Philip J.; Spinti, Jennifer P.; Uchitel, Kirsten A., A technical, economic, and legal assessment of North American heavy oil, oil sands, and oil shale resources: In response to Energy Policy Act of 2005 Section 369(p), Sep 2007

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources. Quarterly Progress Report April 2010 to June 2010, Jul 31, 2010

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy From Coal - Phase 3 Statement of project objectives, Jul 01, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - October 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012, Jan 01, 2013

Wendt, J. O. L.; Eddings, E. G.; Lighty, J. S.; Ring, T.; Smith, P. J.; Thornock, J.; Jia, Y.; Morris, W.; Pedel, J.; Rezeai, D.; Wang, L.; Zhang, J.; Kelly, K., Oxy-coal Combustion Studies Task 3 Topical Report, Utah Clean Coal Program, Jan 06, 2012

Smith, Philip J.; Deo, Milind; Eddings, Eric G.; Sarofim, Adel F.; Gneishen, K.; Hradisky, Michal; Kelly, Kerry; Mandalaparty, P.; Zhang, H., Underground Coal Thermal Treatment - Task 6 Topical Report, Utah Clean Coal Program - Reporting Period October 2009 - September 2011, Dec 13, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - July 1, 2012 to September 30, 2012, Oct 01, 2012

Hradisky, Michal; Smith, Philip J., Development of CFD-Based Simulation Tools for In Situ Thermal Processing of Oil Shale/Sands, Feb 2012

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources. Quarterly Progress Report October 2010 to December 2010, Jan 2011

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources: Quarterly progress report: October 2012 to December 2012, Jan 2013

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources. Quarterly Progress Report January 2011 to March 2011, Apr 01, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources - Quarterly Progress Report October 2011 to December 2011, Jan 2012

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - April 1, 2011 to June 30, 2011, Jul 2011

Bauman, J.; Burian, S.; Deo, M.; Eddings, E.; Gani, R.; Goel, R.; Huang, C. K.; Hogue, M.; Keiter, R.; Li, L.; Ruple, J.; Ring, T.; Rose, P.; Skliar, M.; Smith, P. J.; Spinti, J. P.; Tiwari, P.; Wilkey, J.; Uchitel, K., UTAH HEAVY OIL PROGRAM - Final Scientific/Technical Report - Project Period: June 21, 2006 to October 20, 2009, Jan 31, 2010

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources: Quarterly progress report: April 2012 to June 2012, Jul 2012

Smith, Philip J., Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: January 1, 2010 to March 31, 2010, May 31, 2010

Smith, Philip J., Project Management Plan: Revision D - Clean and Secure Energy from Coal April 6, 2012, Apr 06, 2012

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - October 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011, Feb 16, 2012

Smith, Philip J., Clean and secure energy from coal, oil shale, and oil sands: Quarterly progress report: January 1, 2009 to March 31, 2009, Apr 30, 2009

Smith, Philip, Accelerating Deployement of Retrofitable CO2 Capture Technologies Through Predictivity (Simulation, Verification, Validation / Uncertainty Quantification) - 2010 Annual Report (for year 1 of 3) to DOE NNSA from The University of Utah, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Phase 2: Clean and secure energy from coal: Quarterly progress report: July 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010, 2010

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources. Quarterly Progress Report July 2010 to September 2010, Oct 2010

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources. Quarterly Progress Report April 2011 to June 2011, Jul 01, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - April 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012, Jul 01, 2012

Whitty, Kevin; Fletcher, Thomas; Pugmire, Ronald; Smith, Philip; Sutherland, James; Thornock, Jeremy; Hunsacker, Isaac; Li, Suhui; Kelly, Kerry; Punati, Naveen; Reid, Charles; Schurtz, Randy, Gasification Studies October 2009 to July 2011, Oct 2011

Smith, Philip J., Phase 2: Clean and secure energy from coal: Quarterly progress report: October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010, Jan 31, 2011

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

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources: Quarterly progress report: July 2012 to September 2012, Oct 2012

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - January 1, 2012 to March 30, 2012, May 01, 2012

Smith, Philip J., Project Management Plan: Revision B - Clean and Secure Energy from Coal June 30, 2011, Jun 30, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources - Quarterly Progress Report July 2011 to September 2011, Sep 2011

Smith, Philip J., Quarterly Progress Report Phase 3: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal - July 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011, Sep 2011

Smith, Philip J., Attachment 2 - Statement of Program Objectives Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources, Dec 2011

Smith, Philip J., Project Management Plan: Revision C - Clean and Secure Energy from Coal November 22, 2011, Nov 22, 2011

Conference Papers

Hunsaker, Isaac L.; Glaze, David J.; Thornock, Jeremy N.; Smith, Philip J., A New Model for Virtual Radiometers, Jul 08, 2012

Hunsaker, Isaac; Harman, Todd; Thornock, Jeremy; Smith, Philip J., Efficient Parallelization of RMCRT for Large Scale LES Combustion Simulations, 2012

Conference Presentations

Pedel, Julien; Thornock, Jeremy; Smith, Philip, Large Eddy Simulation of axial pulverized coal flames in O2=CO2 environments (Abstract only), Nov 12, 2010

Smith, Philip J., Welcome and Introduction: 2009 Western U.S. Oil Sands Conference, Feb 27, 2009

Smith, Philip J., The Utah Heavy Oil Center, Sep 21, 2006

Smith, Philip J., 2012 Uconventional Fuels Conference Introduction, May 15, 2012

Smith, Philip J., 2011 University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference Intro, May 17, 2011

Smith, Philip J., Environmental technologies applicable to shale development: Integrating simulation and experiment, Nov 13, 2008

Smith, Philip J., 2011 Unconventional Fuels Conference - Welcome/opening remarks, May 17, 2011

Spinti, Jennifer; Smith, Philip J.; Hochstrasser, Brandon, Oxy-gas process heaters for efficient CO2 capture, Apr 28, 2010

Philip Smith
155 South 1452 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Office: INSCC 380
Work Phone: 801-585-3129
Fax: 801-585-1456