Welcome to the homepage for Surfactant Associates, Inc., where you will find information on surfactant training at our regular offerings of short courses. These opportunities to bring in-depth understanding of surfactant processes to key personnel or even to large numbers of workers, with on-site short courses at your company, result in improved products and processes to add to corporate efficiency and profitability.  We offer further options to optimize your corporate budget by contracting research within our company and share the results in presentations to your company.  We are pleased to share our long history of expertise in the field in these courses and contract research, and here, with selected publications by our industry-leading authors and with links to other sites related to the study and application of surfactants that provide a richer understanding of the field.

COMPANY PROFILE

Surfactant Associates, Inc. (SA) is a small private corporation formed by University of Oklahoma faculty members with expertise in surfactant science and applications.  SA performs contract research for industry and government agencies and has trained thousands of scientists and engineers worldwide with our Short Course in Applied Surfactant Science and Technology, for those in industry requiring surfactant training to expertly optimize product processes and formulation.  

SA's expertly trained personnel in well-equipped labs have performed custom-tailored contract research for companies including Alliance Pharm., Alpha Metals, American Tech. Group, Arco, Boehringer-Mannheim, Clorox, Conoco, Dial, DuPont, EIC Labs, IBAH, Inc., Kerr-McGee, Lonza, Lubrizol, Mobil, the National Institute of Health - Center for Disease Control, National Science Foundation, Phillips Petroleum, PPG Industries, Reckitt & Colman, Syva, Tinker Air Force Base, Unilever, U.S. Dept. of Defense, U.S. Dept. of Energy and Warner Lambert, among others.

SA's Short Course in Surfactant Science and Technology is held regularly in Norman, Oklahoma in the U.S.A. and periodically in Bangkok, Thailand, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  Additionally, the short course is frequently contracted on-site for companies which provides an attractive method for providing surfactant training for large numbers of employees at central locations.  For example, the course has been given on-site at divisional locations of 3M, Akzo Nobel, Clorox, Cytec, Dial, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Kimberly-Clark, Kiwi Brands, Monsanto, Parker Amchem, Procter & Gamble (U.S., Far East and the Phillippines), S.C. Johnson, Sasol, (S. Africa), Unilever, Varn Products, Witco and others.

Jeffrey H. Harwell

~ President, 

Surfactant Associates, Inc.

~Conoco Dupont Professor, 

School of Chemical Engineering 

& Materials Science, 

University of Oklahoma

~ Associate Dean, 

College of Engineering,

University of Oklahoma

David A. Sabatini 

~ Sun Company Chair & Blackburn Presidential Professor,

School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Science,

University of Oklahoma 

~ Director,

Environmental

Water Institute, 

University of Oklahoma

~Associate Director, 

Institute for Applied

Surfactant Research, 

University of Oklahoma

John F. Scamehorn

~ Asahi Glass Chair 

& George  Lynn Cross Professor,

School of Chemical Enginering & Materials Science,

University of Oklahoma 

~Director,

Institute for Applied 

Surfactant Research, 

University of Oklahoma

If you are interested in improving your understanding of surfactant technology to improve your industrial processes and products by attending a short course for surfactant training, or arranging an on-site course for your company, or if you would like to receive further information about our company and research opportunities we offer, please contact us at:

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