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Research Areas
Biochemical Engineering
Investigation of nonlinear oscillations in different bioreaction systems, electro-permeabilization of plant cells and tissues, renewable biomass conversion, and membrane bioreactors.
Biomedical Engineering
Microvascular fluid dynamics and macromolecular transport in organs and tissues in situ and ex vivo, dust particle-macrophage interactions in cell culture, and image analysis.
Carbon Products from Coal Research Projects
Isotropic and anisotropic graphites, pitch development, pitch reactivity and rheology, carbon foam materials, ultrapure coal derivatives, activated carbons and adsorbents.
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Research Projects
Higher alcohol synthesis, catalytic cracking, characterization of molybdenum sulfides, catalyst design, catalyst development, catalytic coal liquefaction, waste tire liquefaction and coking, poisoning and hydrothermal stability of zeolites.
Fluid Particle Sciences Research Projects
Wet/dry agglomeration phenomena, particle size and shape charac-terization, sedimentation, classi-fication, prediction of fine powder flow properties, material science of fine powders, particle coating in fluidized beds, application of fluid bed coatings to pharmaceutical industry. Mechanisms of particle attrition and agglomeration.
Fluidization Research Projects
Fine powder fluidization, characterization of emulsion phase rheological properties, transient behavior, stability, three-phase fluidization, high temperature fluidiz- ation, heat transfer in bubbling beds, HAP metal clean up from incinerator flue gases using fluid beds, hydro-dynamic modeling of circulating, fluidized beds, and investigation of flow patterns in spouted fluidized beds.
Optoelectronic Materials Research Projects
Investigation of nucleation and growth mechanisms for diamond, silicon carbide, and gallium nitride, development of novel processing techniques, and computational and theoretical modeling of growth processes.
Polymers and Materials Engineering Research Projects
Synthetic fibers, suspensions and emulsions, blends and composites, and materials characterization.
Thermodynamics in Process Design Research Projects
Vapor-liquid equilibria, calorimetry, design uncertainty and risk analysis, optimization, thermodynamic model sensitivity, model and algorithm synthesis.
     
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