Research and Development.Richard J. Kerekes awarded the TAPPI TAPPI Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Research and Development Technical Award and William H. Aiken Prize [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr. Richard J. Kerekes, director of the University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. (UBC) Pulp & Paper Centre in Vancouver, Canada has been selected to receive the TAPPI Research and Development Technical Award and William H. Aiken Prize. This award recognizes outstanding accomplishments or contributions which have advanced the industry's technology. Kerekes earned his BASc. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, , followed by a Ph.D. from McGill University. He joined PAPRICAN PAPRICAN Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada in 1971 as a scientist. In 1978 he moved to Vancouver to develop a partnership between PAPRICAN and the University of British Columbia. He was named Honorary Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at UBC. In 1983 he founded and was named Director of the UBC Pulp and Paper Centre. He also founded the UBC Pulp and Paper Master of Engineering Program and established the Faculty Associate Program in the Centre. In 2001, Kerekes was appointed the first Paprican Professor of Pulp and Paper Engineering at UBC. Kerekes has made significant contributions to the science of papermaking in the areas of high temperature calendering, fiber flocculation flocculation /floc·cu·la·tion/ (flok?u-la´shun) a colloid phenomenon in which the disperse phase separates in discrete, usually visible, particles rather than congealing into a continuous mass, as in coagulation. , pulp refining, and blade gap forming and he has authored or co-authored more than 80 technical papers. His work on the calendering equation and high temperature calendering is often cited as crucial to the development of modern calendering techniques. In addition, he developed the concept of "Crowding Factor" in flocculation and he has made substantial contributions to paper-making hydrodynamics hydrodynamics: see mechanics. Hydrodynamics The study of fluids in motion. The study is based upon the physical conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy. . A TAPPI member since 1976, Kerekes has been active in the Fluid Mechanics Committee and he served on the TAPPI/CPPA Joint Committee of the Journal of Pulp and Paper Science. In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Kerekes was named a TAPPI Fellow in 1990 and he received the 1997 TAPPI Engineering Division Award. He also received the PAPTAC PAPTAC Pulp And Paper Technical Association of Canada John S. Bates Award and Gold Medal in 1999. |
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