Hampton University Chair
Dr. Adeyinka Adeyiga

Dr. Adeyiga received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1980 with supporting fields in Physics and Applied Mathematics. His experience spans more than 25 years in Chemical Engineering practice and Engineering education. Research includes vapor-liquid equilibrium for acid gas constituents in natural gas, oil, and coal-derived fluids; and mathematical modeling of chemical processes and heat transfer, catalytic and non-catalytic gas-solid reactions, environmental and waste management. He has authored and/or co-authored over 45 publications in this field. He has held research engineering positions with E.I. DuPont and De Nemoir Company, reservoir engineer with Shell Petroleum (International), and was Chief Consultant for Padson Engineering in Nigeria. Dr. Adeyiga was the founding Chair of the Department of Engineering at Hampton University where he has spent the last eighteen years and has been awarded more than 10 research projects exceeding $4 million dollars since comi! ng to the University in 1985. He also has performed research for the Department of Energy, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. During his tenure as the Department Head, he oversaw construction of a new 5.2 million dollar Olin Engineering Building with state-of-the-art facilities for Engineering instruction and research. He led the Hampton Engineering programs to hosting the first ABET/EAC visit, which resulted in receiving the first accreditation for all of Hampton University's engineering programs in 1992. Accreditation for all engineering programs has been maintained since then. Dr. Adeyiga was featured in the Summer 1995 issue of U.S. Black Engineers Magazine. His memberships in professional organizations include American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Chemical Society, among others with listings in Who's Who Among African Americans, Who's Who in America South and Southwest 26th Edition, Who's Who! in American Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in America 54th Ed ition.

A Discussion with Dr. Adeyiga on Program Goals

"The establishment of the DOE-EM Dr. Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence provides an excellent opportunity for Hampton University to be involved in cutting edge environmental issues in the 21st Century. The Hampton University Massie Program focuses on:

At the initial stage of the development of this program, work was conducted in the area of how formic acid recovery from waste streams could be accomplished effectively. The last several years have been spent on the removal of priority metal ions such as cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, thallium, zinc, etc., from industrial and municipal wastewater by using natural wastes. The process uses tree leaves to adsorb the metal ions in the wastewater. The ultimate goal is to develop inexpensive, highly available, effective metal ion adsorbents from natural wastes as an alternative to existing commercial adsorbents, and also to explain the possible adsorption mechanism that is taking place.

This technology uses natural wastes to eliminate other wastes. Obviously, there are several advantages: (1) the negative impact on environment is eliminated, (2) the complicated regeneration step is not needed, and (3) the procedure saves money and energy.

The research work in the area of wastewater treatment will continue extending into organics. For the immediate future, Hampton plans to expand investigations in the following areas:

The Program will strategize involvement of more U.S. companies with similar research interests.

Environmental Justice

Hampton University has formed partnerships with the City of Portsmouth and the City of Chesapeake, the only two cities with black mayors in the Tidewater of Virginia (Mayor James Holley and Mayor William Ward). Over the years, several areas of the City of Portsmouth have had dilemmas with lead contamination. The Program with the Cities focused attention on the need to more actively ensure equitable environmental protection for all, and to empower those most often disenfranchised from the decision making process - the blacks."

Recent Publications in Refereed Journals

Bukur, Dragomir, Ma, Wen-Ping, Vazquez, Victor H., and Adeyiga, Adeyinka, "Spray Dried Iron Catalysts for Slurry Phase Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis". Final paper number 105. Presentation, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, September 7-11, 2003.

Liang Hu and Adeyinka Adeyiga, "Kinetic Model of Gas-Liquid-Liquid Decomposition Extraction", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2002.

Liang Hu, Adeyinka Adeyiga, Tina Greer, Efat Miamee, and Adeleke Adeyiga, "Removal of Metal Ions From Wastewater With Roadside Tree Leaves", Chem. Eng. Comm., 189: 1-11, 2002.

Kandis Sudsakorn, James G. Goodwin, Jr., and Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, "Effect of Activation Method on Fe FTS Catalysts: Investigation at the Site Level Using SSITKA". Journal of Catalysis, 2002.

Liang Hu and Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, "Kinetic Model of Gas-Liquid-Liquid Decomposition Extraction". Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2002.

Adeyinka Adeyiga, Liang Hu, Efat Miamee, "Attrition-Resistant Iron-Based Catalyst for F-T SBCRS". Presentation, University Coal Research/Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions Programs Review Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-5, 2002.

Adeyinka Adeyiga, Liang Hu, Efat Miamee, "Development of Attrition-Resistant Iron-Based Catalyst for F-T Catalysts". Presentation, University Coal Research/Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions Programs Review Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-5, 2002.

Kandis Sudsakorn, James G. Goodwin, Jr., K. Jothimurugesan, and Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, "Preparation of Attrition Resistant Spray-Dried Fe Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts using Precipitated SiO2". Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2001, 40, 4778.

Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, "Development of Attrition-Resistant Iron-Based Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts". Presentation, UCR-HBCU Contractors Review Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-6, 2001.

Liang Hu, Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, Tina Greer, Shuming Zheng, Leke Adeyiga, "Metal removal from industrial and municipal wastewater by natural wastes". Accepted by Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 1999.

Liang Hu, Brian R. Chen, Shuming Zheng, Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, "Kinetic model of decomposition extraction process". AIChE Annual Meeting, 1998.11

Liang Hu, Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, Shuming Zheng, "Adsorption of metal ion on tree leaves", AIChE Annual Meeting, 1998.11

Liang Hu, Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, Shuming Zheng, G. Hanidu, Alfonso Pujol, Jr., "Analysis of the decomposition-extraction process", Industrial and Engineering Chemical Research, 37, 5, 1998, p 1977-1982

Liang Hu, Adeyinka A. Adeyiga, "Feasibility investigation of the adsorption of metal ions on leaves", U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Technology Center, 1998.4

Hu, Liang, and Adeyiga, A.A., "Extraction of Formic Acid from Sodium Formate", I&E C Research, 1997, 36, 6, p. 2375-2379.

Hu, Liang, and Adeyiga, A.A., "Equilibrium of Extraction of Formic Acid from Sodium Formate", AIChE Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL; 199611.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Hot Coal Gas Desulfurization with Zinc Based Sorbents", 3rd International Symposium and Exhibition: Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 18-20, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Catalytic Decomposition of Ammonia in Coal Gas", 3rd International Symposium and Exhibition: Gas Cleaning at High Temperatures, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 18-20, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A.A., and Gangwal, S.K., "Hot Coal Gas Desulfurization with Zinc-Based Sorbents", High Temperatures Gas Cleaning, (Eds. E. Schmidt, T. Pilz and A. Dittler) p 630-637, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A.A., and Gangwal, S.K., "Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide from Hot Coal Gas Streams", Thirteenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference Proceedings, "Coal-Energy and the Environment" (Eds. S.H. Chiang), 596-601, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A.A., and Gangwal, S.K., "Advanced Hot-Gas Desulfurization Sorbents", Proceedings of the Advanced Coal-Fired Power Systems '96, Review Meeting, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide From Hot-Coal Gas Streams", Thirteenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference:, Pittsburgh, PA, September 3-7, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Catalytic Decomposition of Ammonia in Coal Gasification Processes," Fourth Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Private Sector-Energy Research and Development Technology Transfer Symposium, Greensboro, NC, April 1-3, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Regenerable Sorbents for Desulfurization Sorbents", Fourth Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Private Sector-Energy Research and Development Technology Transfer Symposium, Greensboro, NC, April 1-3, 1996.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Development of Advanced Hot-Gas Desulfurization Sorbents, Proceedings of the Advanced Coal-Fired Power Systems '95 Review Meeting, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, WV, DOE/METC/95/1018, 402-406, 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Simultaneous Removal of H2S and NH3 from Hot Coal Gas", Twelfth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference Proceedings, "Coal Energy and the Environment" (Eds. S.H. Chiang), 1201-1206, 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Development of Advanced Hot- Gas Desulfurization Sorbents", Annual AIChE Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, November 12-17, 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K. Adeyiga, A. A. and Gangwal, S. K.: "Simultaneous Removal of H2S and NH3 in Hot Coal Gas," Twelfth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 11-15, 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A. and Gangway, S. K.: Development of Advanced Hot-Gas Desulfurization Sorbents", Advanced Coal-Fired Power System '95 Review Meeting, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 27-29, 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A. And Gangwal, S. K., "Development of Advanced Hot-Gas Desulfurization Sorbents", Proceedings of the Advanced Coal-Fired Power Systems '95 Review Meeting, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, West Virginia, DOE/METC/95/1018, 402-406, 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A., and Gangwal, S. K., "Development of Advanced Hot-Gas Desulfurization Sorbents", Third Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Private Sector Energy Research and Development Technology Transfer Symposium, Atlanta, GA, April 1995.

Jothimurugesan, K. Adeyiga, A. A. and Gangwal, S. K.: "Simultaneous Removal of H2S and NH3 in Coal Gasification Process," Second Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Private Sector Energy Research and Development Technology Transfer Symposium, April 18-22, 1994.

Jothimurugesan, K., Adeyiga, A. A. and Gangwal, S. K.: "Simultaneous Removal of H2S and NH3 in Coal Gasification Process," proceedings, Coal-Fired Power Systems 94 - Advances in IGCC and PFBC Review Meeting, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, WV, DOE/METC/94/1008, 398-402, June 21-23, 1994.

Jothimurugesan, K. and Adeyiga, A. A.: A Manual for the Unit Operations Laboratory, 1994.

Adeyiga, A. A. (speaker): "U. S. Department of Energy - Minority Honors Training/ Minority Undergraduate Training for Energy Related Training Program," presented at Howard University, Washington, DC (October 12-14, 1993).

Adeyiga, A. A., Walsh, D., (1992). "Changing the Culture for Engineering Education." Presented at ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nashville, TN November 11-14, 1992.

Hanidu, G. A. (speaker); Jothimurugesan, K.; Oladipupo, A. O.; Williams, J.; and Adeyiga, A. A.: "Community College Linkages," presented at the Engineering Pipeline National Conference, Woodland, TX (September 24-26, 1992).

Hanidu, G. A. (speaker); Jothimurugesan, K.; Oladipupo, A. O.; and Adeyiga, A. A.: "Academic Enrichment Summer Program," presented at Engineering Pipeline National Conference, Woodland, TX (September 24-26, 1992).

Adeyiga, A. A. (speaker): "U. S. Department of Energy - Minority Honors Training/Minority Undergraduate Training for Energy Related Training Program," presented at Florida International University, Miami, Florida (April 1-2, 1992).

Adeyiga, A. A. (speaker): "U. S. Department of Energy - Minority Undergraduate Training for Energy Related Training Program," presented at the Berkeley Conference Center, Berkeley, California (June 11-12, 1991).

Akyurtlu, J. F.; Jothimurugesan, K.; Akyurtlu, A.; and Adeyiga, A. A.: "Catalytic Gasification of Coal Chars by Potassium Sulfate and Ferrous Sulfate Mixtures," abstract for presentation submitted to the Conference on Chemical Reaction Engineering III to be held in Santa Barbara, California on February 11 16, 1990.

Akyurtlu, J. F.; Akyurtlu, A.; Jothimurugesan, K.; and Adeyiga, A. A.: "Disposable Catalysts for Coal Gasification," abstract for presentation submitted to the 9th International Congress on Energy and Environment held in Miami Beach, Florida (December 11 13, 1989).

Akyurtlu, J. F. (speaker); Akyurtlu, A.; Adeyiga, A. A.; and Jothimurugesan, K.: "Catalytic Gasification of Coal Chars by Potassium Sulfate and Ferrous Sulfate Mixtures," presented at the Department of Energy University Coal Research and HBCU Contractor's Review Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (July 10 13, 1989).

Adeyiga, A. A.; Akyurtlu, A.; and Akyurtlu, J. F.: "Evaluation of On Board Hydrogen Storage Methods for Hypersonic Vehicles," Proceedings of AIChE and Petro Chemical Expo '89, Houston, Texas. (April 2 6, 1989)

Akyurtlu, A; Akyurtlu, J. F.; Perdue, S. (speaker); and Adeyiga, A. A.: "Evaluation of On Board Hydrogen Storage Methods for Hypersonic Vehicles," presented at the 3rd NASA HBCU Science and Engineering Research Forum, Alabama A and M University, Normal, Alabama, (March 22 23, 1989).

Akyurtlu, A.; Akyurtlu, J. F.; and Adeyiga, A. A.: "A Manual for Chemical Engineering Laboratory." (1988)

Adeyiga, A. A.; Akyurtlu, A.; Akyurtlu, J. F.; and Northam, G. B.: "Evaluation of On Board Hydrogen Storage Methods for High Speed Aircraft," Proceedings of the 2nd NASA HBCU Forum, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Georgia. (October 22 26, 1987)

Adeyiga, A. A.; Akyurtlu, A.; and Akyurtlu, J. F.: "Catalytic Gasification of Coal Chars by Non Transition Metal Catalyst," Proceedings of the HBCU Research Seminar, Grambling State University/U.S. Department of Energy, Grambling, Louisiana. (December 9 10, 1986)

Adeyiga, A. A.; Akyurtlu, A.; and Akyurtlu, J. F.: "Zinc Ferrite as a Desulfurization Sorbent for Coal Derived Fuel Gases," Proceedings of the HBCU Research Seminar, Grambling State University/U.S. Department of Energy, Grambling, Louisiana. (December 9 10, 1986)

Adeyiga, A. A.: "Equilibrium Constants for Physical Solvents in Natural Gas," Ph.D. Dissertation, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. (1980)

Adeyiga, A. A.; Mains, G. J.; and Maddox, R. N.: "Vapor Liquid Equilibrium Coefficients for Acid Gas Constituents and Physical Solvents," Proceedings of the 30th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (October 19 22, 1980)

Adeyiga, A. A.: "Treatment of Waste Fibers to Increase Digestibility," M.S. Thesis, University of Missouri Columbia. (1976)

Professional Organizations/Associations

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

American Chemical Society

Order of Engineers' Organization

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Omega Chi Epsilon

Society of Petroleum Engineers

American Society for Engineering Education

U. S. Black Engineer Career Communication Group Award for outstanding service and contribution to Engineering Education (February 1987)

Listed in Who's Who Among African Americans

Listed in Who's Who in America South and Southwest 26th Edition

Listed in Who's Who in America Science and Engineering

Listed in Who's Who in America 54th Edition

List of Accomplishments

1980

PhD in Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University

1976

M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri

1974

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University

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