Frederick L. Dryer received his Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1966 and a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey in 1972. After serving on the Professional Research Staff in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Princeton University for eight years, he joined the academic faculty of the department as a tenured Associate Professor in 1981 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1983. Dr. Dryer served as Undergraduate Departmental Representative for his department from 1984 to 1987, and as Associate Dean, Academic Affairs of the School from 1987 to 1990.
Dr. Dryer's principal research interests are in the fundamental combustion sciences with particular emphasis on: chemistry/chemical kinetics of fuels and hazardous waste materials as related to ignition, combustion, and emissions generation/abatement; the fundamentals of formation/ignition/secondary atomization/liquid phase chemistry of conventional and synthetic fuel droplets as related to heavy industrial fuel combustion/emission control, gas turbine/reciprocating engines and liquid fuel fire safety related issues on earth and in micro gravity environments; solid phase/gas phase interactions as related to particle burning phenomena and materials processing. Research efforts are supported by grants and/or contracts from government, private foundations, industrial research institutes, and individual private industries.
Dr. Dryer has published extensively, and he has lectured and consulted for the government, industry and legal profession on the above as well as other combustion, fire safety, energy, and emissions-abatement-related subjects. His recent interests in environmentally related subjects has concentrated on hydrocarbon emissions from internal combustion engines, nitrogen oxides, aerosol particulates, and other pollutant interactions in high-performance gas turbines, and emissions interactions including chlorine, sulfur and ash (metals) component effects in stationary energy conversion, chemical processing, and incineration. He has also served as a full time consultant to the petroleum and energy conversion industries during three academic sabbaticals (1982-83, 1990-91, 1996-97).
Dr. Dryer is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Sigma Xi Engineering Honoraries, The Combustion Institute, The American Chemical Society, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Society of Automotive Engineers, and The American Society of Engineering Educators. He is a former associate editor of Combustion Science and Technology (eight years), a co-editor for the Proceedings of the Twenty Sixth International Symposium on Combustion, and will co-edit the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion in 1998. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics.
Dr. Dryer recently served on the National Materials Advisory Board/National Research Council Committee on Improved Fire and Smoke Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors, on the NASA Scientific Advisory Panel for the Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project, and on the National Materials Advisory Board/National Research Council Committee on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety.
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