AHFME Academic Member 2011 Total Annual Earnings Survey
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to determine the 2011 annual earnings of hospitality financial management educators. Forty percent of AHFME's members affiliated with educational institutions responded. Annual base salaries ranged from $67,000 to $185,000. The lowest paid member is an assistant professor while the highest paid member is a full professor. Many respondents supplement their base salaries by both teaching during summer school and consulting. The total annual earnings of members ranged from $75,000 to $293,000. Hospitality financial management educators appear to be more highly compensated than the average college professor.
AHFME Academic Member 1998 Total Annual Earnings Survey
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to determine the 1998 annual earnings of hospitality financial management educators. Sixty percent of AHFME's members affiliated with educational institutions responded. Annual base salaries ranged from $43,000 to $115,000. The lowest-paid member is an assistant professor while the highest-paid member is a full professor. Most respondents supplement their base salaries by teaching during summer school and doing consulting work. The total annual earnings of members ranged from $48,000 to $190,500. Hospitality financial man-agement educators appear to be more highly compensated than hospitality industry financial executives.
Influence of pressure and fluidization velocity on the hydrodynamics of a fluidized bed containing horizontal tubes
Abstract An experimental investigation of the influence of horizontal tubes on the bubble behaviour and through-flow velocity of gas inside bubbles was carried out and the influence of pressure and fluidization velocity was studied. The visible bubble flow rate and the gas velocity through the bubbles were measured simultaneously in a pressurized fluidized bed, using capacitance and Pitot-static pressures probes respectively. Silica sand with a mean particle diameter of 0.7 mm was fluidized at pressures between 01. and 1.6 MPa, in a bed of 0.2 × 0.3 m cross-section. Six different horizontal tube configurations were used and comparisons were made with results obtained in the same bed operated without tubes. The results from the bed with tubes show that the influence of pressure and fluidization velocity is basically the same as in the bed without tubes; an increase in pressure and fluidization velocity increases the bubble activity. At low excess gas velocities, the influence of immersed tubes on the bubble behaviour is less pronounced than at high excess gas velocities. Measurements and visual observations show that a small tube pitch gives a more uniform distribution of the visible bubble flow over the bed cross-section. At a combination of high pressure, high excess gas velocity and a large tube pitch, a preferred bubble path was observed in the centre of the bed cross-section. The pressure probe measurements show that the through-flow velocity of gas inside the bubbles is in most cases higher when tubes are present in the bed. The through-flow velocity consistently decreases with increasing pressure in the bed without tubes. The tendency is largely the same at a low excess gas velocity when tubes are present, but at a high excess gas velocity the through-flow velocity first decreases and then increases as the pressure is increased.