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for converting coal into clean (non-polluting) fuels. One approach under study is the gasification of coal to provide a clean low-CV gas for fuelling gas turbines and combined-cycle power systems. Another is the conversion of coal to a substitute for natural gas and to high-octane gasoline. This approach involves the instantaneous heating of coal in hydrogen at high pressure followed by quenching the vapour products after only a few seconds at reaction temperature.
Dr Squires holds sixteen US patents on fuel processing, gas cleaning, fluid-particle technology, and power generation; he has published more than thirty technical papers in these fields.
Before his present academic position, Dr Squires engaged in 25 years of industrial activity, including eight years as a consultant to the chemical process industries. He joined the faculty of the City College in 1967, and he became Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department in 1970. Dr Squires, a native of Kansas, graduated in chemistry from the University of Missouri in 1938; he obtained his doctorate (PhD) in physical chemistry, under the late John Kirkwood, at Cornell University in 1947. His interest in engineering was aroused during World War II through his assisted in the process design of the Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion plant for concentrating uranium-235.
The Henry H. Starch Award will be presented to Dr Squires at Chicago in August during the Fall meeting of the association with Manson Benedict, now of MIT, whom he American Chemical Society.
The following papers have been accepted (8 May 1973) for publication in future issues of FUEL Diffusion of methane through coal. E. D. Thimonsand F. N. Kissell Reactions of coal with discharge-generated (excited) nitrogen species. S, Nishida and N. Berkowitz Reactions of coal with nitrogen/hydrogen mixtures in a discharge.
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