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Bio
Jim Evans is Professor of Metallurgy and holder of the P. Malozemoff Endowed Chair in Mineral Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. He is the author/co-author of three books and 300 papers. His research deals with rate phenomena governing the productivity of processes for producing metals and other materials. This has involved investigations of wide ranging technologies such as aluminum reduction cells, electromagnetic casters, chemical vapor deposition, fluidized bed electrodes and batteries. His current projects include mathematical modeling of the treatment of molten metals, wireless monitoring of the electrolytic cells used for producing aluminum, recovery of water and copper from semiconductor industry waste streams, modeling of new technology for producing titanium and lithium batteries for energy storage in wireless technology. He received the Extractive Metallurgy Science Award of TMS in 1973 and again in 1983. He served as a Director of TMS from 1986 to 1989. In 1994, he was the Extractive and Processing Lecturer of AIME. In 2004 he was the recipient of the James Douglas Gold Medal of AIME as well as the Brimacombe Prize.
Date and Place of Birth: Aug. 22, 1943, England
Citizenship: USA
Education
B.Sc. (Chemistry), University of London, England, 1964
Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970
Professional Experience
1964-65 Technical Advisor, International Computers, Ltd., London, England
1965-67 Chemist, Cyanamid of Canada, Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
1970-72 Engineer, Ethyl Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1972-76 Assistant Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1977- Principal Investigator, Materials Science Division/Energy & Environmental Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1976-80 Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1981 Visiting Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Magnetohydrodynamique de Grenoble, France
1980- Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1986-90 Chairman, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
2003- Plato Malozemoff Endowed Chair in Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Selected Publications
“Development of a Three Dimensional Mathematical Model of the Electromagnetic Casting of Steel� (with R. Kageyama), ISIJ International, vol. 42, pp. 163-170 (2002)
“Characterization of the SEI on a Carbon Film Electrode by Combined EQCM and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry� (with K. Kwon, F. Kong and F. McLarnon), J. Electrochem. Soc., vol. 150, pp. A229-233 (2003)
“Transient Flows in Gas Stirred Vessels During Initial and and Post Gas Injection Periods� (with D. Mazumdar, C. Seybert and D. Steingart), ISIJ Int., vol. 43, pp. 132-134 (2003)
“Effect on Al Corrosion of LiBF4 Addition into Lithium Imide Electrolyte; a Study Using the EQCM� (with S-W. Song, T. J. Richardson, G. V. Zhuang and T. M. Devine), Electrochimica Acta, vol. 49, pp. 1483-1490 (2004)
“Measurements of Granular Flows in Two Dimensional Hoppers by Particle Image Velocimetry; Part I: experimental method and results � (with D. A. Steingart), Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 60, pp. 1043-1051 (2005)
“PIV Measurements of Velocity of Water in the Presence of Ice and Comparison with Calculated Values� (with C. D. Seybert), Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transport, vol. 48, pp67-73 (2005)
“Macroscopic Models for Gas-Stirred Ladles� (with D. Mazumdar), ISIJ Int., vol. 44, pp. 447-462 (2004)
“The Production and Processing of Inorganic Materials� (with L. C. De Jonghe), TMS, Warrendale, PA (2002)
“Laboratory and Full-Scale Measurements of Bubble Behavior in Gas Fluxing Units�, (with A.J. Fjeld and D. C. Chesonis), pp. 755-760, ‘Light Metals 2004’, A. T. Tabereaux ed., TMS, Warrendale, PA (2004)
“Experiments on Wireless Instrumentation of Potlines�, (with M. H. Schneider, D. Ziegler, P. Wright and D. A. Steingart), pp 407-412, ‘Light Metals 2005’, H. Kvande ed., TMS, Warrendale, PA (2005)
Teaching Interests
Production of Inorganic Materials
Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing
Honors & Awards
Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Fellowship, State University of New York at Buffalo (1969- 70). Awarded to the most outstanding graduate student at SUNY, Buffalo.
Extractive Metallurgy Science Award of AIME (1973). Awarded for the best paper on the science of extractive metallurgy appearing in Institute publications for past two years.
Extractive Metallurgy Science Award of AIME (1983 and 2002)
Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal of the Metallurgical Society of AIME (1984)
Extractive and Processing Lecturer of AIME (1994)
Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award, State University of New York at Buffalo (1994)
Chancellor’s Professor, UC Berkeley, (1996 - 2000)
D.K.C. MacDonald Lecturer, 9th Canadian Materials Science Conference, Quebec (1997)
Light Metals Technical Service Award of TMS, (2001)
Aluminum Distinguished Service Award of TMS,(2002)
Plato Malozemoff Endowed Chair in mineral Engineering, (2003 - 2008)
The James Douglas Gold Medal of AIME, 2004
The Brimacombe Award, 2004
Professional Societies
The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
The Electrochemical Society