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The Department of Chemical Engineering maintains an active research program at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Most of the graduate thesis research and
undergraduate theses, are carried out as part of externally sponsored research
projects. The majority of the externally sponsored research in the department is
in collaboration with industry and government agencies. Recent industrial
research collaborations include: Air Products and Chemicals, Bionix Engineered
Medical Technologies, Dupont & Co., GlaxoSmithKline, Inland Steel, Lucent
Technologies, and Merck & Co. The department has also received support from
government funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the
Department of Energy and from private foundations such as the Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation.
The faculty have a wide variety of
research interests. Recent graduate students have contributed to research in
the following topic areas:
- Thermal management of electronic devices
- Supercritical carbon dioxide for the formation of self-assembled
monolayers and polymer films
- Thermal decomposition of chlorofluorocarbons
- Computational fluid dynamic modeling of mixing and fermenters
- On-line process monitoring of fermentation processes
- DNA plasmid recovery optimization
- Nanofibers for heat transfer and catalytic applications
- Chemical mechanical planarization of electronics via environmentally
friendly processing
Selected Recent Graduate Theses Modeling Shear Damage
of CHO Cells in a Rotary Positive Displacement Pump Venkat H. Kamaraju, advisor
Dr. W. Kelly Tracking Dissolved Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide with Computational
Fluid Mechanics Using a Population Balance Model and Pressure Dependent User
Defined Function Files
Joseph M. Anderson, advisor Dr. W. Kelly
Dialkyldithiocarbamates: Self-Assembled Monolayers and Copper Chelation in
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Joshua Giuffre Richards, advisor Dr. R. Weinstein
Stormwater Total Hydrocarbon and Hydrologic Mass Balance and a Chloride Mass
Balance of the Villanova University Stormwater Wetland
David Salas-de la Cruz,
advisor Dr. V. Punzi
Computational Analysis of Fluorinated Compounds and Thermal
Decomposition of CHFClCF₃ and CHF₂Cl: an Experimental and Modeling Study
Robert
J. Colmyer, advisor Dr. E. Ritter
Process Modeling and Optimization of a
Pharmaceutical Semi-Batch Reactor
Manish Badlani, advisor Dr. K Muske |
