Chemical Engineering Consultant: Supercritical Fluids (SCF) Technology and Polymer Purification

Expertise

• Supercritical fluid (SCF) solvent technology.
• Phase behavior for high pressure, supercritical fluid solvent-solute mixture.
• Polymer solutions in liquids and supercritical fluid solvents.
• Fractionation and separation of polymers using supercritical fluid solvents.
• Electrospinning in liquids and supercritical fluid solvents.
• Calculating and predicting phase behavior of liquid and SCF systems.
• Encapsulation of solids and drugs in polymers using SCF and organic solvents.
• Polymer particle formation processes with SCF solvents.
• Extraction and purification of polymers.
• Equations of state and activity coefficient models for process calculations.

Experience

Unspecified University, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, 1999 - Present

• Professor

Unspecified University, Department of Chemical Engineering

• Professor, 1991 - 1999
• Associate Professor, 1987 - 1991
• Assistant Professor, 1985 - 1987

University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1981 - 1985

• Assistant Professor

FMC Corporation, Chemical Research and Development, Princeton, NJ, 1975 - 1976

• Process Engineer

Research Interest

• High-pressure phase equilibria.
• Polymer solution behavior at high pressures.
• Light scattering phenomena in polymer solutions at high pressures.
• Supercritical fluid solvent technology.

Invited Research Seminars

• "Fluorocarbon-SCF Materials Processing."
• Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design.
• "Polymer-supercritical fluid (SCF) solvent behavior: Fundamentals and processing."
• "Impact of fluorination on the solubility of trifluorovinyl isopropylidenediphenyl ether copolymers in supercritical fluid solvents."

Advanced Courses in Supercritical Fluid Technology

• "Supercritical Fluid Extraction: Principles and Practice."

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• American Chemical Society: Polymers Material Science & Engineering Division, Polymer Chemistry Division
• American Physical Society: High Polymer Physics

Scientific Committee Member

• Participation in many scientific committees related to high pressure process and supercritical fluids.

Awards

• Kipping Visiting Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Nottingham
• Visiting Professor, Institut fur Physikalische Chemie, Universitat Gottingen
• JHU Oraculum Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• Keynote Address, Meeting of the Society of Chemistry and Industry, London
• Battelle Memorial Institute Research Award

Editorial Advisory Board

• Journal of Chemical & Engineering Technology
• Journal of Supercritical Fluids
• Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data

Publications

• Many publications.

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University