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The 2003 Max Jakob Award was presented to
Kenneth J. Bell
at the
Heat Transfer Honors & Awards Luncheon
during the
2004
Heat Transfer / Fluids Engineering Conference
in Charlotte, North Carolina
on
July
12, 2004
Ken Bell's professional
interests have focused upon the development, selection,,
application, design, and trouble-shooting of heat
exchangers for the process, energy, and environmental
control industries. This interest was initiated during
his graduate work in the Department of Chemical Engineering
at the University of Delaware. His research was in
the ASME-sponsored Cooperative Research Program on
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers, with Professors Allan
Colburn and Olaf Bergelin as mentors. This program
culminated in the "Delaware Method" for
the design of that equipment.
Receiving the Ph.D. in 1955, Ken
joined General Electric at the Hanford Operations,
conducting laboratory and in-reactor testing of advanced
fuel elements. He joined the faculty of Case Institute
of Technology, his undergraduate school, in 1956.
At this time, he became an Associate of Dr. Donald
Kern's consulting firm and became broadly familiar
with the heat exchanger industry.
In 1961, Ken joined the School of
Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University,
from which he retired in 1994 as Regents Professor
Emeritus. He was major advisor to 30 Ph.D. and 45
M.S. students. Shortly after going to Oklahoma State,
he became a consultant to Phillips Petroleum and the
newly-formed HTRI, where he developed life-long associations
with Drs. Jerry Taborek and Joe Palen. Ken has consulted
for more than 60 industries, government agencies,
and law firms. For 10 years, he was a part-time staff
member at Argonne National Laboratory. He has conducted
over 100 short courses on Process Heat Transfer and
related topics for engineers in industry. He maintains
an office at the University and is active in consulting,
lecturing, and editing.
Ken was a Founding Editor and for
18 years Editor-in-Chief of "Heat Transfer Engineering",
an international journal for practicing engineers.
He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers and has received the Donald Q. Kern and
Heat Transfer Division Awards.
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