Prof B B Argent
BMet PhD DMet CEng FIMMM CPhys FinstP MRSC
Emeritus Professor of Materials
Address:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 5498
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 5943
Email: b.argent@sheffield.ac.uk
Bernard Argent joined the Department as an undergraduate in 1950 and apart from a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley has spent his academic career at The University of Sheffield. For six years he was a member of the British Council´s Advisory Committee on Engineering and Technology and is currently a Guardian and Member of the Executive Committee of Sheffield Assay Office.
Research Interests
These are broadly-based and have covered a wide variety of topics ranging from
- Experimental determination and computation of thermodynamic properties and phase diagrams for metals, alloys, glasses and ceramics.
- Process engineering topics involved in the materials and energy industries including environmental issues.
Selected Publications
- B. B. Argent, K. Jones and B. J. Kirkbride, "Vapours in Equilibrium with Glass Melts", "The Industrial use of Thermochemical Data", sp Pub 34, pp 379-390. Chemical Society (1980).
- C. E. McDonnell, D. R. Triger and B. B. Argent “Characteristics of Steelworks Dusts", Ironmaking and Steelmaking, 16 (6), (1989), 435 - 445.
- I. Delay, J. Swithenbank and B.B. Argent, “Prediction of the distribution of alkali and trace elements between the condensed and gaseous phases generated during clinical waste incineration” J. Alloys and Compounds, (2001), 320, (2), 282-295.
- B. B. Argent and D.Thompson, “Prediction of the distribution of trace elements distributions between the product streams of the PRENFLO gasifier and comparison with reported data” Fuel (2002) 81 555-570.
- R. R.Jha, C.W.Haworth and B.B.Argent: “The formation of Diffusion Coatings on some Low-Alloy Steels and their High Temperature Oxidation Behaviour Part 2 Oxidation studies” CALPHAD 2002 25 (4) 667-689.
- Chen-Feng Chan, Bernard B. Argent and William E. Lee “Prediction of the Effect of additives on slag resistance of Al2O3-SiO2-SiC-C refractory bond phases in air”, CALPHAD, 2003, 27, (1) 115-125.
- B. B. Argent, R.G.J. Edyvean, D. A. Spears and D. Thompson, “Perspective on Environmental Pollution”, Materials Science and Technology, April 2004, 20 (4) pp 411- 430.
- B.M. Gibbs, D. Thompson and B. B. Argent, “A thermodynamic equilibrium comparison of the mobilities of trace elements when washed and unwashed coals are burnt under pf firing conditions”, in press Fuel 2004.