Olagoke Olabisi (AKA Lagoke Labisi) is an author, editor, educator, mentor, inventor, and entrepreneur.Olagoke Olabisi: https://litcaf.com/olagoke-olabisi/Olagoke Olabisi: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_V21nasAAAAJ&hl=enOlagoke Olabisi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olagoke-olabisi-38317a5/Olagoke Olabisi: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olagoke_OlabisiOlagoke Olabisi: https://patents.justia.com/search?q=olagoke+olabisi A Nigerian–American

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, Olagoke is the Chief Consultant and CEO of Infra-Tech consulting LLC, an energy

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focused on

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and materials engineering. He has 9 patents and a total of 97 publications including Fugacity and Vapor Pressure of Non-Polar Liquids at Low Temperatures, Thermoplastics Beyond the Year 2000: A Paradigm, and Handbook of Thermoplastics, 2nd Edition. He has been involved in

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Jump up to: “Olagoke Olabisi,” page 162: Who's Who in Nigerian Universities and Research Institutes, African Biographical Centre LTD, Lagos, Nigeria. 1990. and industry in the United States,

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, and

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. He is a mentor to students and young professionals.

Early life and education

Born in

Osogbo Osogbo (also ''Oṣogbo'', rarely ''Oshogbo'') is a city in Nigeria. It became the capital city of Osun State in 1991. Osogbo city seats the Headquarters of both Osogbo Local Government Area (situated at Oke Baale Area of the city) and Olorund ...

Osun State Osun State (; yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun), occasionally known as the State of Osun by the state government, is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states, to the north by Kwara State, to the south by Ogun S ...

on 25 September 1943, Olabisi had his secondary school education at Ibadan Boys' High School

Oyo State Oyo State is an inland state in southwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State, to the east by Osun ...

and proceeded to Government College, Ibadan, where he completed his advanced high school education in 1964. He was a 1965 recipient of a scholarship award from the African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU) administered by

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(AAI), to study

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

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. In 1969, he graduated with two degrees: one in

and the other in

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. He was the recipient of The John Clarence Lottes Memorial Award as the best senior student on the basis of scholastic ability in chemical engineering Jump up to: "Olagoke Olabisi", page 107: Farmus, Cristina; and his senior project was published. Olabisi proceeded to the

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where he earned MS degree in

in 1971 with a thesis entitled "Secondary and Primary Normal Stresses, Hole Error, and Reservoir Edge Effects in Cone-and-Plate Flow of Polymer Solutions", whose results were published in an article with the same title. He furthered his studies and earned a PhD degree in macromolecular science and engineering at

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in 1973, with a dissertation entitled Pressure-volume-temperature properties of amorphous and crystallizable polymers and oligomers (which is cited in an associated journal article) under the tutelage of Robert Simha.Robert Simha. https://history.aip.org/phn/11903007.html In 1980, he earned an MS degree in

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at the

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through a part-time self-development program.

Career

Olabisi received a PhD degree just prior to the

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which dramatically drove up the price of crude oil, petrochemicals, polymer, and plastics. An immediate plastics industry response to the crisis was to focus on plastics material conservation. There arose the need for plastics processes to employ less than a full density of plastics material in producing light-weight automotive and other plastics material articles having structural properties matching or exceeding those of solid (full density) plastics articles. While employed at the R&D Department of

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Olabisi earned eight patents that addressed the conservation issue. The two key process patents are: Process for the molding of plastics structural web and the resulting articles Olagoke Olabisi (1976). Process for the molding of plastic structural web and the resulting articles, US Patent No. 4,136,220; https://patents.justia.com/patent/4136220 and Structural foam molding process.Olagoke Olabisi (1976). Structural foam molding process, US Patent No. 4,255,368; https://patents.justia.com/patent/4255368 The conservation activity of developing new plastics materials through blending of two or more structurally different homopolymers, copolymers, terpolymers and other plastics, resulted in Olabisi's publications on Polyblends,Olagoke Olabisi (1981). Polyblends. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Vol. 18, 3rd ed. Chapter: 18 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Herman F. Mark et al., eds; Polymer Compatibilization: Blends of Polyarylethers with Styrenic Interpolymers Olagoke Olabisi and A. G. Farnham, (1978). Polymer Compatibilization: Blends of Polyarylethers with Styrenic Interpolymers. Advances in Chemistry Series No. 176, 574, Chapter: 29, American Chemical Society Press, Washington, D. C. S. L. Cooper and G. M. Esters, eds; and others. As part of the industry-university interaction with

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, Olabisi was appointed

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to teach a graduate-level course based on his book, Polymer-Polymer MiscibilityOlagoke Olabisi, L. M. Robeson, and M. T. Shaw (1979). Polymer-Polymer Miscibility, Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ; that provided some basis for research projects on plastics materials conservation. Following the impact of

, the

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(NNPC) was established (1977) and, in the same year, Nigeria joined

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as the 11th member country. A fully-fledged petrochemical complex was in operation in Nigeria in the early 1980s when Olabisi was appointed a professor of

University of Lagos The University of Lagos, popularly known as UNILAG, is a public research university located in Lagos, Nigeria and was founded in 1962. UNILAG is one of the first generation universities in Nigeria and is ranked among the top universities in th ...

. The need for teaching, research, and public service in petrochemicals, plastics, and polymer materials engineering was high in the country. Olabisi initiated courses and researchOlagoke Olabisi and O. M. Akinlade (1989). A Mixed Integer Model of the Development of Petrochemical Industry in Nigeria 19th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, November, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336207677 for a PhDO. M. Akinlade (1990). Modeling the development of the downstream petrochemical industry in Nigeria, University of Lagos, https://unilag.edu.ng/ program in petrochemicals. Through his adjunct professorship and other linkages with the

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and Case Western Reserve university, he was able to secure opportunities for some students to earn postgraduate fellowships to pursue PhDAjayi Adewale, (1993). Experimental and theoretical isothermal flow studies in modular intermeshing counter-rotating twin screw extruders, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/Adeyinka Adedeji (1995) Morphological studies of homopolymer/block copolymer blends with exothermic interfacial mixing, Case Western Reserve University, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?p10_etd_subid=50724&clear=10Kolapo Adewale, (1996). Modeling of melt flow instabilities of high molecular weight polymer with narrow molecular weight distribution, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/Domasius Nwabunma (1999) Photopolymerization-induced phase separation and morphology development in liquid crystal/polymer blends, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/Gbolarumi Adebayo 2001 Design, validation and implementation of on-line measurement techniques to study the phase behavior of partially miscible PMMA/PaMSAN blends under quiescent and flow conditions, and application to filled-PVC in quiescent mode, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/ in the two universities. These graduates eventually became professors, executives of government parastatals, or captains of industry. In response to the global events, the new

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(LASU), established in 1985, decided on having a comprehensive engineering program and Olabisi was appointed the foundation

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of the faculty of engineering, technology, and

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(FETES) in 1985. Aside from establishing the traditional departments, Olabisi established a department of polymer technology, the first such department in any Nigeria university. An award of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Senior Traveling Fellowship enabled him to establish a fruitful linkage with the

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resulting in LASU receiving an equipment donation worth more than a million dollars in 1987. On returning to the

in 1987, Olabisi was appointed the Head of Department, Chemical Engineering. By 1988, the devaluation of the

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forced an economic quandary on NigeriaIhonybere, Julius (1993). Economic crisis, structural adjustment and social crisis in Nigeria, World Development Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 141–153; and Olabisi was appointed the managing director, UNILAG Consult,

. In response to the economic climate, he organized the National Workshop on Economic Recovery Program. He also initiated activities on Baseline Ecological Studies of the Niger Delta Basin; Soil Maps of Nigeria; and assisting the government's ongoing Delivery of Technical Aid to

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. His activities at UNILAG Consult earned Olabisi a special award for dynamic, innovative, and result-oriented leadership in 1990. Olabisi was the Founder and CEO of the African Biographical Centre LTD, Publisher of Who's Who in Nigerian Universities and Research Institutes. Prior to 1990, gel-casting of ceramic powders was a continuing cooperative

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.O. O. Omatete, R. A. Strehlow, and B.L. Armstrong (1990) Forming of silicon nitride by gelcasting, Annual automotive technology development contractors coordination meeting, Dearborn, MI (USA); https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6261217 between Allied-Signal Aerospace Company and

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(ORNL). As a visiting consultant with the

during the summer of 1990, Olabisi had an Energy Systems Invention Disclosure (ESID No. 917-X: Alternative Low-Toxicity Monomeric Gel Casting Methodology for Molding Ceramic Powders for High-Heat Engine Components) relating to the program, which involved the use of a variety of water-soluble monomers. The results were subsequently subsumed in the patent entitled Method for molding ceramic powders using a water-based gel casting.Mark A Janney, Ogbemi O Omatete, Method for molding ceramic powders using a water-based gel casting, US Patent No. 5,028,362; https://www.osti.gov/doepatents/biblio/867892 In spite of the

and the

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, the petrochemicals organizations in the

countries, including

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, still depended on licensing third-party process technologies to fulfil their resin needs. One of the ways

sought to reduce or eliminate the dependence was to initiate a research program at the

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, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals KFUPM,

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. In 1990, Olabisi was appointed a professor and Senior Research Engineer at

KFUPM King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) ( ar, جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن, – short: ar, جامعة البترول ), after 1975 as the University of Petroleum and Minerals and initially as the ...

. His activities in the

-sponsored program resulted in a joint patent entitled Catalyst and process for ethylene oligomerization.Zahoor Mohammad Akhtar, Al-Sherehy Fahad, Olabisi Olagoke, Abdillahi Mohammed M, and Saeed Mian Rahat Catalyst and process for ethylene oligomerization, US Patent No.6184428; https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US6184428 His subsequent activities as a Consulting Engineering Specialist at

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earned Olabisi a 2003

Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Achievements in Engineering & Operations Services. He had a number of publications exemplified by some key articles.Olagoke Olabisi (2000) Emerging Nonmetallic Materials in the Exploration and Production Industry, Saudi Aramco Journal of Technology, Pages 2–11, March; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262493940Olagoke Olabisi, A. V. Rao, R. E. Khoury (2002) SSL Application in Saudi Aramco – First in the World; Saudi Aramco Journal of Technology, Pages 57–64, September; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262494345Olagoke Olabisi, G. M. Fallatah, A. O. Somali, A. A. Badghaish, A. G. Gibson (2003), Reinforced thermoplastic pipe for oil and gas, Saudi Aramco Journal of Technology, Pages 20–27, September; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262494358 The

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(DOT) Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) sponsored a research project DTPH56-08-T-000012 at Corrpro (a subsidiary of Aegion). In 2007, Olabisi was appointed director, Internal Corrosion Engineering, as well as the

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of the PHMSA project, the

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David H. Kroon, Olagoke Olabisi, Larry G. Rankin, James T. Carroll, Dale Lindemuth, and Marlane L. Miller (2011). Improvements to the External Corrosion Direct Assessment Process – Part I; Materials Performance 50(3):30–34, February https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264883367David H. Kroon, Olagoke Olabisi, Larry G. Rankin, James T. Carroll, Dale Lindemuth, and Marlane L. Miller (2011) Improvements to the External Corrosion Direct Assessment (ECDA) Process -. Part II; Materials Performance 50(4):30–37, March https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264884969 of which made an impact on the external corrosion direct assessment (ECDA) process. He also became the lead developer of the Pipeline Corrosion Integrity Management (PCIM) Course Corrpro Companies, Inc. (2007) Pipeline Corrosion Integrity Management (PCIM) Course;

NACE International The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), is a professional association focused on the protection of assets and performance of materials. AMPP was created when NACE International and SSPC the Society for Protective Coatin ...

, 30 March, https://www.nace.org/education/courses-by-program/pipeline-industry/pipeline-corrosion-integrity-management for

. The other Corrpro

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corrosion projects he managed were on behalf of several clients including ENI US Operating Co., Inc. North Slope Alaska;Olagoke Olabisi (2013). Corrosion Rate as Key Performance Indicator in the North Slope; Materials Performance 52(8):50–56, July, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262493837 Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska, Inc. North Slope Alaska; Gulf South Pipeline Company LP; Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP; SCANA Transmission Pipelines; Trunkline LNG Company, LLC; Cheniere Energy; and Murphy Exploration & Production Company. His contributions to the Internal Corrosion Monitoring Services (ICMS) Project of

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included a publication on Black Powder in Export Gas LinesOlagoke Olabisi, Saleh Al-Sulaiman, Amer Jarragh, Yousef Khuraibut, and Ashok Mathew, (2017). Black Powder in Export Gas Lines Materials Performance 56(5):50–54, March; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315739997 as well as others.Olagoke Olabisi, Saleh Al-Sulaiman, Amer Jarragh, Adel Al-Mutairi (2015). Ribosomal RNA Characterization of Bacteria: Linkage with Field Data Based on Culture Media, NACE International Conference, Corrosion2015, March, Olagoke Olabisi, Abdul Razzaq Al-Shamari, Saleh Al-Sulaiman, Amer Jarragh, and Ashok Mathew (2017). Ranking Asset Integrity Risk of Oilfield Water Handling Systems, Materials Performance 56(12):58–62, November, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321677872Olagoke Olabisi, Saleh Al-Sulaiman, Amer Jarragh, and Shibu Abraham Nanthalathu Ayrukuzhyil (2018), Ranking pipeline leakage susceptibility, Materials Performance 57(6):60–64, May. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325789619 He continues to consultOlagoke Olabisi, Amer Jarragh, and Ashok Mathew, (2020). Ranking Asset Integrity of Oilfield-Water Systems in Two Production Lifecycles, Materials Performance 59(2):38–44 February. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339029470 in his capacity as the Chief Consultant, Infra-Tech Consulting LLC, Olabisi remains a member of international professional and engineering organizations.

Honors and awards

*1966 Member of

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Honor Society, Zeta Chapter *1968 Member of

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Honor Society, Alpha of Indiana *1968

President's Academic Award *1969

President's Academic Award *1969 The John Clarence Lottes Memorial Award as the best senior student on the basis of scholastic ability,

, School of

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*1974 Member of

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Honor Society, The Scientific Research Society of North America, Union Carbide Plastics Chapter *1975 Member of

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*1986 Senior Traveling Fellowship Award, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) *1989 Merit Award for Excellence in the Field of Engineering and Technology,

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, Nigeria *1990 Special Award for Dynamic, Innovative, and Result-Oriented Leadership, UNILAG Consult

*1991 Fellow of the

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*1996

Special Award for "New concepts & Best Idea for Using Plastic Material in New Application" *1999 Fellow of the

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*2001

Outstanding Achievement Award in Engineering & Operations Services. *2007 Outstanding Achievement Award by US Chapter of

. *2022 Distinguished Leadership Award for Excellent Leadership, Extraordinary Commitment & Years of Loyal Service by Faculty of Engineering

. *2022 Fellow of the

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. *2023 A Past Head of Department Award in Commemoration of 50th Anniversary of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering,

Patents and publications

Olabisi is an author, editor, educator, mentor,inventor, and entrepreneur; he has 9 patents and a total of 97 publications. on different topics in the fields of

, Materials Engineering,

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Petrochemicals Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sou ...

, Oil and Gas.

Personal life

Olagoke Olabisi resides with his wife, Juliet Olabisi, in

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References

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