Hong Yong Sohn

Professor, Metallurgical Engineering

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Metallurgical Engineering
William Browning
135 S 1460 East Rm 00412
Salt Lake City UT 84112-0114

Education

Seoul National University, Chemical Engineering, B.S., 1962
University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., 1970
State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Process Metallurgy, Postdoc. Assoc., 2/71

Research Statement

Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials, Hydrogen Storage Materials Development, Metallurgical Process Engineering, Fluid

Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:

Keywords: Fluid Dynamics (5); Hydrogen Fuel Thermochemical Processes; Hydrogen Fuel Transport; Materials Preparation or Fabrication; Materials Processing Engineering; Oil Shales or Tar Sands (6); Reaction Engineering (3)
Regions: Asia, East (Far East) (30); South America (27)
Languages: Korean (12)

Research Projects

A. U.S.-Egypt Joint Science and Technology Board/NSF, Grant No. OISE 0913513/MAN10011354-F1, “Preparation of High-Aspect Ratio Wollastonite Using Recycled Material,” $50,000, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011.

B. American Iron & Steel Institute, “Gas-Solid Suspension Ironmaking Technology,” $2,493,078, January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2010.

C. Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST), Pohang, Korea, “Fundamental Study for the Development of a New Ferro-Manganese Making Process Using Low-Grade Manganese Ores,” $172,932, June 1, 2009 – May 31, 2012.

D. Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST), Pohang, Korea, “Removal of Phosphorus by the Formation of High Volatile Compounds in the Smelting of Mn Ores,” $70,000, Dec. 1, 2009 – Sept. 30, 2010.

E. Pohang Steel Company (POSCO), Pohang, Korea, “Characterization of magnetite ore for better use in the FINEX process,” $85,000, Feb. 1 – Nov. 30, 2010.

F. Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST), Pohang, Korea, “Thermodynamic Investigation on the Refining of Mg Crown,” $70,000, Feb. 1 – Nov. 30, 2010.

G. Pohang Steel Company (POSCO), Pohang, Korea, “Study on the sulfur and nitrogen control under mass scrap melting in converter,” $62,000, May 1, 2010 – February 28, 2011.

Awards

● TMS 2009 Fellow Award, in recognition of outstanding contribution to the practice of metallurgical/materials science and technology, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME.
● Honored with “Sohn International Symposium on Advanced Processing of Metals and Materials: Principles, Technologies and Industrial Practice,” TMS, San Diego, California, August 27-31, 2006.
● AIME James Douglas Gold Medal Award, 2001 (for leadership and outstanding contributions in research and education of nonferrous extractive metallurgy and for work related to the modeling of gas-solid reactors and the development of novel solvent extraction systems), American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).
● KAST Fellow Award, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, March, 1998 (elected member March 1997).
● TMS Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal Award, 1993 (for the most notable contribution to Metallurgical Science in the 3–year period), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME.
● TMS Extractive Metallurgy Lecturer Award, 1990 (in recognition as an outstanding scientific leader in the field of nonferrous extraction and processing metallurgy), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME.
● TMS 2007 Extraction and Processing Science Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME, for paper entitled “The Influence of Chemical Equilibrium on Fluid-Solid Reaction Rates and the Falsification of Activation Energy,” Metall. Mater. Trans. B, 35B, 121-131 (2004). [The first 4-time winner of the TMS Science Award.]
● TMS 1999 Extraction and Processing Science Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME, for papers coauthored with S. PalDey entitled “Synthesis of Ultrafine Particles of Intermetallic Compounds by the Vapor–Phase Magnesium Reduction of Chloride Mixtures: Part I.  Titanium Aluminides” and “Part II.  Nickel Aluminides,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol. 29B, 457–464; 465–469 (1998).  
● TMS 1994 Extraction and Processing Science Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME, for papers coauthored with B. C. Paul and M. K. McCarter entitled “Model for Ferric Sulfate Leaching of Copper Ores Containing a Variety of Sulfide Minerals: Part I. Modeling Uniform Size Ore Fragments” and “Part II. Process Modeling of In Situ Operations,” Metallurgical Transactions B, vol. 23B, 537–548; 549–555 (1992).
● TMS 1990 Extractive Metallurgy Science Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of AIME, for a paper coauthored with Y. B. Hahn entitled “The Trajectories and Distribution of Particles in a Turbulent Axisymmetric Gas Jet Injected into a Flash Furnace Shaft,” Metallurgical Transactions B, vol. 19B, 871–884 (1988).

Private and Government Foundations
● Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher–Scholar Award (1977)
● Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer: Lima, Cuzco, and Arequipa, Peru, November 14–25, 1983
● Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship for Research and Lecture in Japan, 1990
● Appointed Advisor, LS-Nikko Co., Korea, 2005
● Fossil Energy Lecturer, U.S. Department of Energy, 1978–81
● Alcoa Foundation Science Support Grant, 1982

University of Utah
● Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, 2009–2010
● Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, 2005–2006
● Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, 2003–2004
● Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, 2002–2003
● Outstanding Teacher Award for 1985–86, College of Mines and Mineral Industries
● The Outstanding Professor Teaching Award, Department of Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering, 1986