Six University of Utah professors in the chemical and bioengineering department have been awarded the "Best Paper of 1991" by the international journal Computers in Chemical Engineering.
They are J.D. Seader, S.A. Johnson, Keith Uns-worth, James Wiskin, Wen Jing Lin and Minoru Kuno. The award is being formally announced in the journal's April issue.The paper describes a mathematical method that increases product purity, maximizes profits and reduced pollution in chemical process plants. This technology can be applied to any scientific field that requires daily process control.
Since the paper was published, the state-funded Center of Excellence for Inverse Problems, Imaging and Tomography at the University of Utah has been using this research to help several Utah businesses solve their control and instrumentation problems.