Kent S. Udell
Democratic · UT
Kent S. Udell is a retired mechanical engineering professor who taught at UC Berkeley and chaired the University of Utah department. He focuses on water security and protecting public lands.
Where Kent S. Udell stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 2 support
Developed a steam-injection method to clean polluted soil and groundwater. Its first full use cleaned a Southern California Edison site in Visalia, California, in about four years. The site came off the national Superfund cleanup list on August 27, 2009.
August 27, 2009Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: superfund.berkeley.edu
Received a U.S. patent (No. 5,986,159) with three other inventors for a way to clean up buried toxic waste. The method pumps steam mixed with chemicals underground to push out metals, oily liquids, and radioactive waste.
November 16, 1999Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: patents.google.com
Track record — General
General · 1 record
Buried a 35-foot-wide, 40-foot-deep "ice ball" under the University of Utah campus. The experiment tested how heat and cold can be stored underground for later use.
May 25, 2012
Source: continuum.utah.edu
Past race Kent S. Udell ran in:
- United States Representative, Congressional District 3 · November 3, 2026 · Congressional District 3, Utah