Name: Dr. Tongfan Sun E-mail: Areas: Experimental and theoretical research of thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and fluid mixtures

Degrees:

Research Summary:

1. Measurements and prediction of density, viscosity and thermal conductivity of liquids and liquid mixtures at 300-500K and high pressures
2. Equation of state for modeling phase equilibria of binary and ternary systems

Publications:

1. "An ultrasonic method for the accurate determination of the melting line: Data for cyclohexane and benzene", T.F. Sun, S.N. Biswas, N.J. Trappeniers, and J.A. Schouten, Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 91, 1013 (1987).
2. "Raman noncoincidence effect of the carbonyl stretching mode in compressed liquid cyclocarbonates", T.F.Sun, S.Wallen, and J. Jonas, J. Chem. Phys. 94, 7486 (1991).
3. "Perturbation calculation of thermodynamic properties of liquid benzene using the six center Lennard-Jones potential",T.F. Sun, S.N. Biswas, C.A. Ten Seldam, and J.A. Schouten, Molecular Physics, 69, 615 (1990).
4. "A method for the prediction of the transport properties of dense fluids: application to liquid n-alkanes", T.F. Sun, J. Bleazard, and A.S. Teja, J. Phys. Chem., 98, 1306-1310 (1994).
5. "A simplified mean spherical approximation for the prediction of the osmotic coefficients of aqueous electrolyte solutions", T.F. Sun, J. Lenard, and A.S. Teja, J. Phys. Chem.., 98, 6870-6875 (1994).

Bio Sketch:

• 04/91 - present, Research fellow, School of Chem. Eng., Georgia Institute of Technology.
• 01/90 - 04/91, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, University of Illinois, Using laser Raman technology to study liquid molecular dynamics.
• 11/84 - 12/89, Ph D student, v.d.Waals Lab, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Using ultrasonics to measure sound speed and phase transitions of liquids at high pressures.

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