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1. Professor
Susu is retired from teaching and research activities in chemical
engineering at the University of Lagos where he was the Head of the
Chemical Engineering Department for six years (1980-1986) and Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering for four years (1991-1995). He holds the degrees
of B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Idaho in 1966 and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering obtained Stanford
University, Stanford, California, USA, in 1967 and 1971, respectively.
His undergraduate and graduate programs were funded through scholarship
schemes of the US government: the ASPAU Scholarship program for
undergraduate studies and the AFGRAD Scholarship program for graduate
studies. He received an NSF Grant for undergraduate research in Physical
Chemistry and was First in the Graduating Class in 1966. He was a
research assistant at Stanford University throughout his postgraduate
years and was an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and a
Research Fellow, Radiation laboratory, at the Notre Dame University,
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA from 1970-1973.
2. Professor Susu was the recipient of the Nigerian
National Order of Merit (NNOM) in 2003 for his pioneering works in
refinery catalysis and the novel work on Leak Detection Systems, a work
that has earned him and his doctoral student a US patent (No. 6,970,808)
in 2005. He was also the winner with his doctoral student, of the
maiden edition of the LNG Science Prize in 2004 for the work on Leak
Detection Systems. He is the recipient of the 1999 Distinguished
AFGRAD/ATLAS Alumni Award for “professional achievements and
outstanding contributions towards African development, including through
your extensive career in higher education as a faculty, researcher and
administrator”.
3. As a Professional Engineer, Professor
Susu is registered as No. R0723 by COREN (The Council for the
Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria). He is a Fellow of the Nigerian
Academy of Science (FAS), a founding Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of
Engineering (FA Eng.) and Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE)
and the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (FNSChE). He is a member
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical
Society.
4. Professor Susu’s teaching activities in
chemical engineering covers many areas of undergraduate and graduate
studies that include Separation Processes, Kinetics and Thermodynamics,
Reaction Engineering and Design (Undergraduate) and Advanced Catalysis
and Advanced Thermodynamics at the Graduate Level. He has supervised the
PhD theses of 15 students and continues the supervision of PhD candidates
in the areas of Catalysis, Biomedical Engineering, Bioremediation and
Biodegradation of PCBs and Reservoir Engineering Research. He was a
Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering, University of
Tokyo, Japan (1978-1979).
5. His research interests include the
following:
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Stability of Reservoir Fluids (Multicomponent,
Multiphase Systems) and Chemically Reacting Systems;
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Kinetics and Catalysis of Reforming
Reactions;
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Environmental Engineering
(Bioremediation & Biodegradation);
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Biomedical Engineering; and
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Adsorption Studies of Multicomponent
Systems
Professor Susu has published 125 journal
articles and has written four books and has also given lectures on areas
of his research to audiences that include the following: an Inaugural
Lecture at the University of Lagos, the Nigerian Academy of Science
Quarterly Lecture, the NLG lecture at the NIIA, Victoria Island, Lagos as
a celebration of the 2004 NLG Science Prize and the 2006 Nigerian
National Merit Award Winners’ Lecture.
4. Professor
Susu has been engaged in Consultancy Works since 1974 on arrival at the
University of Lagos. These activities were prosecuted with the Nigerian
Oil Companies that includes a continuing Crude Oil Characterization works
for reservoir fluids, Environmental Impact Assessment Projects and Post
Impact Assessment/Monitoring Projects and Oil Clean-Up Projects in the
oil producing areas of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, Bioremediation
of Oil Spills and the difficult Bioremediation of Drill Cuttings in
On-shore and Off-shore locations. The activities in drill cutting
bioremediation technology are currently being prosecuted with Shell
Nigeria Limited. He was also an Engineering Consultant in the Catalytic
Model Plants established by the Raw Materials Research and Development
Council (RMRDC) for the Manufacture of Soda Ash from Trona Ore, for the
design and manufacture of a Cocoa Processing Facility and the
Beneficiation of Talc Ore. The total cost of these projects was in excess
of 50 million naira in 1988. Professor Susu has developed a Kerosine
Deodorization Process that attracted initial funding from the RMRDC; the
project has undergone incubation at a Federal Government Incubation
Centre in Lagos and is now ready for full scale commercialization.
5. The most recent of these consultancy
activities is the research and development project being sponsored by the
Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) for the development, design,
fabrication of a Prototype Leak Detection System that will utilize the
new model Leak Detection Model for which the LNG prize was awarded. The
first phase of this project, the development and design of the leak
development facility, costs 10 million naira. Some of the outstanding
activities include the following: (i) the building of the prototype in
collaboration with some overseas manufacturing companies and (ii) the
development of computer software based on our leak detection model, for
use in the prototype facility.
6. Professor
Susu is the Coordinating Consultant/Professor in the School of
Chemical/Petrochemical Engineering and Oil Technology and an Associated Graduate
School. His responsibilities also include the establishment of a Research
Institute in the area of Chemical Technology and the setting up of a Gas
& Oil Research Centre. Apart from his teaching responsibilities in
Chemical engineering and related subjects in Petrochemical and Petroleum
Engineering, Professor Susu is to ensure the effective take-off of the
School/Graduate School of Chemical/Petrochemical and Petroleum
Engineering, including the development of the mandate, functions and
structure of these Academic Units, Curriculum development and the
establishment of affiliate Research Institutes, related Research and
Development Activities and Interaction with Industries. |
