Dr. Philip L. Hanst- President and Founder

Dr. Phil Hanst Education

B.S. in Chemistry (w/ Distinction) George Washington Univ., 1950

M.S. in Physical Chemistry, Univ. of California, 1952.

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Ohio State Univ., 1958.

Present Position

President of Infrared Analysis, Inc. (Anaheim,CA), a corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of instrumentation and software for the analysis of trace gases. The company also offers consultation and research services on problems of air pollution measurement and air pollution chemistry.

Prior Positions

1975 to 1984 Senior Research Scientist and Chief, Atmospheric Characterization and Special Projects Group, Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Studied Los Angeles smog using the spectroscopic method, with a 1 kilometer folded light path. Directed a program of research on the fate of halogenated pollutants in the atmosphere and on the interaction of the halogenated pollutants with stratospheric ozone. Developed new techniques of measuring ultra-trace air pollutants.

1970 to 1975 Chief, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Branch, Division of Chemistry and Physics, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N.C. Directed a group of twenty-five scientists in a program of research on air pollution transformation and removal processes. Applied spectroscopic methods to obtaining answers to long-standing basic questions of the physics and chemistry of the polluted atmosphere. Discovered carbonyl sulfide as the principal sulfur-carrying species in the atmosphere.

1965 to 1970 Chief, Chemical Physics Branch, Optics and Microwave Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Directed a program of research in optics and spectroscopy; developed optical methods of detecting and measuring trace constituents of the atmosphere; created a program of development of remote sensing systems for atmospheric pollutant measurement; supervised the work of fifteen scientists working in the NASA laboratory on the development of gas lasers and the application of gas lasers to NASA purposes; sponsored outside contracts and grants.

1958 to 1965 - Senior Staff Scientist, AVCO Research and Advanced Development Division, Wilmington, Mass. Studied optical radiation emitted by ablating heat shield materials. Measured heat shielding properties of plastics when exposed to intense radiant heat flux. Studied refractory vapors at high temperatures by means of a long path absorption spectroscopy. Studied techniques of optically discriminating nose cones from decoys. Analyzed spectroscopic properties of planetary atmospheres.

1957 to 1958 - Research fellow at the Ohio State University. Studied chemical kinetics and mechanisms of photochemical oxidations.

1953 to 1957 - Senior Research Chemist at the Franklin Institute Laboratories. Analyzed Los Angeles "smog" by infrared techniques in a trailer laboratory located at South Pasadena, CA. Studied the photochemistry and kinetics of the reactions of gaseous air pollutants at the Philadelphia laboratory. Studied the chemical mechanism of CS2 - O2 explosions. Discovered peroxy nitrates to be a toxic component of smog.

1952 - Atomic Energy Commission Fellow at the University of California. Studied the triplet state of organic molecules.