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alcohol and water--is heated, and
a vapor boils off. The vapor
contains more alcohol than water,
because alcohol is more volatile
than water. The vapor can be
condensed and the process
repeated until the desired con-
centration of alcohol is achieved.
In modern-day distillation, the
process is more efficient because
vapor is repeatedly pumped back
through liquid. The heat of the
vapor is thus recaptured and
reused, and the injected vapor
causes a more concentrated
vapor to be given off.
The most efficient distillation
columns contain packings to
maximize the vapor-liquid contact
area. Some packings, however,
create too much friction and
resistance and require excessive
energy for pumping. This friction is
called form drag.
High-efficiency packings
minimize form drag while maximiz-
ing vapor and liquid contact, said
Mr. Bravo. The experimentation
and modeling show that different
packings perform best in differentapplications, and no one packing
type outperforms the rest.
Other researchers on the
project are Christian Fischer, Chris
Martin, Bobby Reeves, and chemi-
cal engineering graduate stu-
dents Jeff Huffon and Gerald
McGlamery.
U
Eastman-Kodak, the Institut
Frangais de Petrole, and Kerr-
McGee Corp. have joined the
Separations Research Program as
sponsors, bringing the total num-
ber of sponsors to 29, James R.
Fair, head of the program, an-
nounced.
The sponsor meeting held April
6, attended by 102, was the
largest in the program's four years
of existence.
U
Separations researcher William
J. Koros has been named one of
four Outstanding Young Texas
Exes by the Ex-Students' Associa-tion of The
University of
Texas at Austin.
Dr. Koros
earned three
degrees in
chemical
engineering
from UT, includ-
ing a PhD, I
received in William I Koros
1977. At present he is the Paul D.
and Betty Robertson Meek and
American Petrofina Foundation
Centennial Professor in Chemical
Engineering at UT.
His research in separations with
polymer membranes is sponsored
by the center's Separations
Research Program, NASA, the US
Navy, and the National Science
Foundation. Dr. Koros also is a
Presidential Young Investigator.
U
Chemical engineering PhD
candidate Scott Barnicki in April
won a Fannie and John Hertz
Foundation Research Fellowship.EUT Austin Energy
DOE Funds National spokesman Bob Porter. DOE has
Oil Recovery Institute requested $17 million for oil and
gas recovery research, the largest
at UT Geology Bureau budget request on the topic since
1982.
To increase research on oil Marcus Milling, director of the
and gas recovery, the US Depart- geosciences institute, said DOE is
ment of Energy (DOE) has expected to increase funding
awarded $500,000 to form a incrementally for the institute. To
national consortium to be admin- receive funding, the members
istered by the UT Bureau of Eco- must match DOE grants one to
nomic Geology. one with nonfederal dollars.
Initial plans for the new Geo- UT and fourteen other univer-
sciences Institute for Oil and Gas sity and state organizations in oil-
Recovery Research were ap- producing regions will participate
proved in February at a meeting in the consortium. Universities that
among Allen Wampler, DOE assis- are not members of the institute
tant secretary for fossil fuels, Texas may propose projects for funding
Governor Bill Clements, and as well.
Bureau Director William L. Fisher.. The UT Austin representative
Because of the oil price on the institute's advisory board is
collapse and the decline of the Robert Finley, research scientist at
domestic petroleum industry, the the bureau, and the alternate is
federal government sees a need Gary A. Pope, professor of petro-
to fund research in oil and gas leum engineering.
recovery, according to DOE Dr. Milling said that in the next
4four to five months the institute will
develop a long-range plan, set
research priorities, and present
them to DOE for review. The
research emphasis will be on
reservoir characterization and oil
and gas recovery,
The concept of "mobile
unswept oil" is gaining recognition
among geoscientists, according
to Mr. Porter. About two-thirds of
the oil in a reservoir cannot be
recovered with standard tech-
niques. The oil was commonly
thought to be too viscous to be
mobile.
An alternative theory, under
study at the Bureau of Economic
Geology, holds that a great deal
of the oil is in fact mobile and can
be removed if wells are geologi-
cally targeted to the reserves.
Part of the impetus for the
institute came from recommenda-
tions of the Energy Research
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