Prof. James E. Smith 

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering 

University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA 

Email: smithje1@uah.edu 

Qualifications 

1982 Ph.D., University of South Carolina, USA, Chemical Engineering 

1977 B.S., University of South Carolina, USA, Chemical Engineering 

Publications (Selected) 

1. "Extraction of Cs+ and Sr2+ from HNO3 Solutions using Macrocyclic Polyethers”, with , Separation Science and Technology 16(5), 519-548, (1981). 
2. "A Modified Inductively Coupled Plasma Torch for Use with Methanol Solvents”, with Nobile, Jr., A. and Shuler, R., Atomic Spectroscopy, 5(3), 73-75 (1982). 
3. "Simultaneous Optimization for Multi-element Analysis”, with Shuler, R., Atomic Spectroscopy, 4(1), 37-38 (1983). 
4. "The Use of an Iron-Titanium Alloy as a Methanation Catalyst”, with Davis, Jr., M, Alternative Energy Sources V, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 365-374 (1983). 
5. "A Redetermination of the Succinonitrile-Water Phase Diagram”, with Frazier, D. and Kaukler, W., Scripta Met.,18(7), 677 (1984). 
6. "The Extraction of Cesium, and Strontium from Acidic High Activity Nuclear Waste Using a Purex Process Compatible Organic Extractant”, with Davis, Jr., M. W., et. al., Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, 3(5), 567-604 (1985).  
7. "Reversing Glass Wettability”, with Frazier, D. and Kaukler, W., NASA Tech Briefs, 9, 1, 100, (1985). 
8. "Extraction of Pd from Acidic High-Activity Nuclear Waste Using Purex Compatible Organic Extractants”, with Davis, Jr., M.W., et al., Polyhedron, vol. 6., no 4, 1125-1130 (1987). 
9. "Coal Liquefaction Using an Intermetallic Hydride to Distribute Hydrogen and Catalyze the Reaction”, with Johnson, S., Applied Catalysis, 44, 53-71 (1988). 
10. “Study of Gravitational Effects on the Rearrangement Stage of Liquid Phase Sintered Binary Metallic Alloys”, with Noojin, S., Vandegrift, J., Hartman, K., Transport Phenomena in Nonconventional Manufacturing and Materials Processing, ASME HTD, Vol. 259, 127-133, (1993). 
11. “Microgravity Processing of Dry Ceramic Mixtures”, with Miller, T., Transport Phenomena in Nonconventional Manufacturing and Materials Processing, ASME HTD, Vol. 259, 127-133, (1993). 
12.  “Morphological Instability of Pores in Microgravity Processed Liquid Phase Sintered Metal Compacts”, with Xue, Z. and Vandegrift, J., Microgravity Science and Technology, Vol. VIII/2, 112-117, (1995). 
13. “Liquid Phase Sintering Using ECLiPSE-HAB Flight Hardware Aboard STS-57, STS-60 and STS-63”, with Vandegrift, J., Noojin, S., Ryan, K., and Xue, Z., 7th International Symposium on Experimental Methods for Microgravity Materials Science, Robert Schiffman, Editor, 79-85, TMS Publications (1995). 
14. “Fate of Pores in Liquid Phase Sintered Metal Compacts Processed in Microgravity”, with Xue, Z., Vandegrift, J., and Nadarajah, A., 7th International Symposium on Experimental Methods for Microgravity Materials Science, Robert Schiffman, Editor, 147-152, TMS Publications (1995). 
15. “Pore Evolution During Liquid Phase Sintering of Metal Alloys Under Low Gravity: Results from Sounding Rocket and Space Shuttle Mission”, with Vandegrift, J., Xue, Z., and Noojin, S., The Fourth Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference, Akira Nagashima, Editor, Vol. 2, 361-364, Tokyo, Japan, (1995). 
16. “An investigation of the Activity of Coprecipitated Gold Catalysts for Methane Oxidation”, with Waters, R and Weimer, J., Catalysts Letters, 30, pp. 181-188, (1995)