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Hoyt C. Hottel
Hoyt C. Hottel
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His career in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1928 until his death at the age of ninetyfive on August IS, 1998, was filled with remarkable accompl~shments. His final technical contribution was his narration of the history of the Combustion Institute, of which he was a cofounder, videotaped at his home on July 29, less than three weeks before his death.
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The data that he generated in the 1930s yielded results that provided standards until the present. In addition to measuring gas emissivity, he established the mathematical framework for the quantitative treatment of furnaces and the zone method for furnace heat transfer.
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The studies led to the choice of the flat-plate collector as the most promising device for solar heating, development of the performance-predicting equations in use today for assessing such collectors and for testing new concepts, construction of the first solar-heated house and of three others that provided data for economic assessment of solar space-heating and hot water supply. Simultaneously, Professor Hottel maintained a balanced view of the significance of solar energy in national or world energy use, advocating the separation of emotional from logical inputs to the assessment of the prospects for economic use of the sun as an energy source.
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His professional awards include the United States Medal of Merit; King's Medal for Serv~ce In the Cause of Freedom, Great Britain; Founders Award, NAE; Founders Award, AIChE; Fritz Medal, United Engineers Trustees; Sir Alfred Egerton Gold Medal, the Combustion Institute; William H Walker Award, AIChE; Max Knob Awarcl, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and AIChE; ESSO Energy Award, Royal Society, London; anti Melchett Medal, Institute of Fuel, Great Britain.
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He was survived by four children: Lois Hottel Wood of Lebanon, New Hampshire; H Clarke Hottel, Jr., since deceased, of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts; Barbara Hottel Willis of Severna Park, Maryland; and Elizabeth Hottel Barrett of Annapolis, Maryland; ten grandchildren, and eighteen great grandchildren.
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