Qua, 06 dezembro 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Tipo de evento:
Seminário
Localização específica:
Room 217D - Edifício Departamental
WEDNESDAY - December 6
12:00 am
Room 217D - Edifício Departamental
7th LAQV-UCIBIO Conference Cycle
SEMIH ESER
Penn State University
Carbon: A Singular Element for Revolutionary Materials and Processes
Host: Isabel Fonseca
Abstract
Solid carbons have played significant roles as key materials to lead revolutionary transformations in technology, such as using charcoal for smelting iron, graphite electrodes for recycling scrap iron and steel, carbon-carbon composites in aircraft brakes, anodes in Li-ion batteries to name a few. Carbon displays an extraordinary diversity in structure, properties, and applications of materials consisting of just one element. A basis of this diversity will be introduced in fundamental terms to present examples of applications and reactions of carbon materials. Contrasting contributions to revolutionary progress in desired material properties, carbon has also been implicated in undesirable deposit formation on metal surfaces in internal combustion engines – a drain on engine efficiency and need for costly maintenance. Metal surface effects on solid carbon deposition from hydrocarbon fuels will also be discussed to develop means for controlling deposit formation in engine fuel systems.
Semih Eser is a Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Penn State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and his Ph.D. in Fuel Science from Penn State University. Eser teaches courses on petroleum refining, energy engineering capstone design, energy and the environment, and carbon materials. His research activities include processing and molecular analysis of petroleum fractions, coke/carbon formation and deposition mechanisms in industrial processes, and inhibition of undesired carbon deposition in combustion engines. Eser has served as Program Chair, Chair, and Councilor in the Fuel Chemistry Division, currently the Energy and Fuels Division of American Chemical Society. He has also served as member on the Advisory Committee and Awards Secretary of the American Carbon Society. Eser was inducted as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2014 and awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Izmir, Turkey in Fall 2014.
