Sabri Ergun

Sabri Ergun was a Turkish chemical engineer, born in Gerede in 1918, best known for the Ergun equation, which expresses the pressure drop across a packed bed of particles. He moved to the United States in 1943, earned bachelor and master degrees in chemical engineering at Columbia University and a doctorate of science at the Vienna University of Technology in 1956. His career included work at the Coal Research Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, a post as project coordinator of solid state physics at the United States Bureau of Mines, a visiting professorship at the University of Karlsruhe in 1969, consulting on waste-to-oil processes at Bechtel, and research on synthetic fuels from coal and biomass at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1977 until he retired in 1980.