09-26-94 Engineers Honor OSU Prof for Technical Achievement

ENGINEERS HONOR OHIO STATE PROFESSOR FOR TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

     COLUMBUS -- Robert H. Essenhigh, holder of the Ervin G.
Bailey Chair in Energy Conversion at The Ohio State University,
is the recipient of the 1994 Percy Nicholls Award recognizing
notable scientific achievement in the field of solid fuels.

     Professor Essenhigh, an UPPER ARLINGTON resident, will be
honored at the International Joint Power Generation Conference &
Exposition, Oct. 3-5, in Phoenix, Ariz.  The meeting is sponsored
by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

     ASME confers the Percy Nicholls Award jointly with the
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engineers.  The organizations cite Essenhigh's "outstanding
contribution to the fundamental understanding of coal combustion
and to the clean and efficient utilization of coal for energy."

     At Ohio State, Essenhigh has studied the effect of chemical
kinetics upon the rate of coal combustion.  The research has
supported the development of mechanistic combustion models for
engineering applications.

     Essenhigh's numerous technical papers have been published in
scholarly journals around the world, gaining the professor
international acclaim.  Most recently, Essenhigh visited
Pennsylvania State University Sept. 12-16 to present the Fifth
Annual Peter H. Given Lectureship in Coal Science.

     Essenhigh is the 51st recipient of the Percy Nicholls Award,
which commemorates the engineer Percy Nicholls, who died in 1942.
Among numerous major technical contributions, Percy Nicholls
invented the Nicholls heat meter which allowed engineers to
determine heat flow through existing structures.

     The first recipient of the Percy Nicholls Award was Ervin G.
Bailey in 1942.  Bailey, an Ohio State graduate in mechanical
engineering in 1903, left a bequest to the university which
created the Bailey Chair in Energy Conversion.  Essenhigh, who
came to Ohio State in 1978, is the first and only holder of that
chair.

     The 125,000-member ASME is a worldwide engineering society
focused on technical, educational, and research issues.  It
conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing
operations, holds some 30 technical conferences and 200
professional development courses each year, and sets many
industrial and manufacturing standards.
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Contact:  John Verrasi, Public Information with ASME, at (212)
705-8158 or Robert Essenhigh at (614) 292-0403.


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Tue, 27 Sep 1994 08:22:50 -0500 (EST)]
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