Dr. Donald D. Joye

Interests

• Heat transfer in complex flow systems including boiling and mixed convection
• Non-Newtonian fluid flow and rheology focusing of polymers, sludges, and complex fluids
• Extraction and recovery of natural products from plants and fruits

Selected Publications

• "Evaluation of immersion coil designs for natural convection driven batch cooling or heating in tanks," Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 47-54, 2000 (with M. A. Smith).
• "Process for selective extraction of pectins from plant material by differential pH," Carbohydrate Polymers, Vol. 43, pp. 337-342, 2000 (with G. A. Luzio).
• "TREX®- A Wood-Polymer Composite from Recycled Materials - Properties and Future Development" Proceedings Int’l Conf. on Advanced Polymers and Processing, ICAPP 2001, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan, November, 2001 (with C. Abeles).

Dr. C. Michael Kelly

Interests

• New technology implementation and optimization
• Process simulation and mathematical modeling of chemical processes
• Theoretical and experimental investigation of two phase flow systems

Selected Publications

• "Reactor design for chemical vapor deposition of tungsten carbide", Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 54/55, pp. 198-203, 1992 (with D. Garg).
• "Sustained Oscillations in Simple Models for Chemical Vapor Deposition", Thin Solid Films,Vol. 207, pp. 57-64, 1992 (with D. Skaf).
• "Kinetics of Chemical Vapor Deposition of Tungsten Carbide", Thin Solid Films, Vol. 219, pp. 103-108, 1992 (with D. Garg and P.N. Dyer).

Dr. William J. Kelly

Interests

• Flow and shearing investigations in biotechnology process equipment
• Computational fluid dynamics of mixing, valves, and centrifuges with complex fluid flow
• Process equipment effects on the integrity and structure of DNA plasmids
• Equipment optimization and design for fermentation and biological processes

Selected Publications

• "Flow of viscous shear-thinning fluids behind cooling coil banks in large fermentors," Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 40, No. 17, pp. 3829-3834, 2001 (with S. Patel).
• "A CFD-based model for predicting shear-induced DNA breakage in mixing tanks," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Applications in Biotechnology, pp. 257-261, 2001 (with V. Narong and A. Ekombaron).

Dr. Kenneth R. Muske

Interests

• Nonlinear model-based control and optimization
• Reaction system analysis, optimization and advanced control using on-line mass spectrometry
• Numerical methods for the solution and optimization of large-scale systems
• Modeling and optimization of pharmaceutical production processes

Selected Publications

• "Hydrothermal treatment of C-N-O-H wastes: Model-based reactor effluent control," Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 1397-1405, 2001 (with J. D. Littell, P. C. Dell'Orco, L. Le, and R. L. Flesner).
• "Model-based control of a thermal regenerator. Parts 1 & 2", Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 2509-2533, 2000 (with J. W. Howse, G. A. Hansen, and D. J. Cagliostro).
• "Disturbance modeling for offset-free linear model predictive control", J. Process Control, 12(5), pp. 617-632, 2002 (with T. A. Badgwell).

Dr. Vito L. Punzi

Interests

• Novel waste treatment and minimization technologies for liquid toxins
• Mathematical modeling and experimentation of heavy metal adsorption on various adsorbents
• Wastewater treatment systems for the removal of trace levels of mercury
• Health risk assessments

Dr. Edward R. Ritter

Interests

• Experimental and modeling investigations into the thermal decomposition of CFCs
• Kinetic modeling and product prediction of complex chemical reaction systems
• Kinetic and thermodynamic property estimations from quantum chemical calculations
• Byproduct formation and minimization in chemical processes

Selected Publications

• "Computational Study of the dissociation of 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropane,” Proceedings of the Third Joint Meeting of the U.S. Sections of the Combustion Institute, 2003 (with J.W. Dawson).
• "Pathways to perfluoropropene: an MCSCF investigation”, Chemical and Physical Processes of Combustion, 2001 Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, 2001 (with W.H. Kohler).
• "An experimental study of the formation of perfluoroisobutene", Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 134, pp. 65-85, 1998 (with R. P. Salmon and J. J. Difelice).

Dr. Dorothy W. Skaf

Interests

• Effects of processing conditions on chemical vapor deposition
• Electrochemical deposition of alloy coatings from solutions containing mixed metal ions
• Cadmium sulfide/cadmium telluride solar cell development
• Methods for estimating mixture flammability limits

Dr. Randy D. Weinstein

Interests

• Heat transfer studies and novel thermal management of electronic devices
• Self-assembled monolayers and polymeric films created in supercritical carbon dioxide
• Environmentally friendly organic synthesis in sub- and supercritical water and carbon dioxide
• Production of polymeric drug delivery devices and improving mass transfer in polymers

Selected Publications

• "Self-assembled monolayer films from liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 2046-2053, 2001 (with D. Yan and G. K. Jennings).
• "Heat transfer analysis of a handset using phase change material for transient thermal management”, Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 124, No. 4, pp.419-426, 2002 (with M. Hodes, S. J. Pence, J. M. Piccini, L. Manzione, and C. Chen).
• "Controlling the properties of n-alkanethiolate self-assembled monolayers on gold using supercritical carbon dioxide-ethanol mixtures as solvents", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 41, No. 18, pp. 4528-4533, 2002 (with D. Yan and G. K. Jennings).