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Chemical Engineering, Enzymes
Expert has spent the majority of his professional career developing and refining the use of chemical engineering techniques to design biochemical reactors holding enzymes and microbial cells. Expert is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Employer's Chemical Engineering program.…
Filtration and Fluid-Particle Separation; Papermaking and Paper Product Properties
For the past 10 years, Expert has been involved in research on filtration and separation problems. He has extensive experimental and theoretical experience in air and gas filtration in fibrous and granular media, and is also involved in filtration in…
Phase Equilibria, Thermodynamics
Expert (pronounced Prows-nitz) has expertise in the applications of molecular thermodynamics to chemical process design. He has extensive experience in the calculation of properties required for chemical process design, especially separation operations. Expert is highly competent in the areas of…
Fluid Flow Systems/Heat Transfer Equipment/Porous Media Flows/Thermal Management
FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID BOUNDARY LAYER. Expert has spent much of his career solving Euler, Navier-Stokes, and Bernoulli equations For their application to complex flow fields such as gas and liquid jets, channel flow design, turbulence, flow separation and mixing processes,…
Blood Wetted Devices and Biomaterials
BLOOD-WETTED BIOMATERIAL; CARDIOVASCULAR PROSTHESES; ARTIFICIAL INTERNAL ORGANS. Expert has been involved in the design, development, and evaluation of extracorporeal and implantable artificial internal organs for many years, first with the artificial kidney (including hemodialyzers and those based upon selective absorption)…
Sol-Gel Processing
The overall focus of Expert's activities is the synthesis and processing of ceramics and glasses using the sol-gel process. She edited the first volume on the applications of this process, which established the technological basis for further developments. She also…
Process Analysis & Simulation
DECAFFEINATION & OTHER SEPARATION PROCESSES; NONSOLVENT DECAFFEINATION. Expert (prefers "Expert") is a recognized authority in the field of decaffeination. He has many patents involving decaffeination, including two of the basic nonsolvent procedures (water and supercritical carbon dioxide.) In his work…
Boron, Inorganic, & Analytical Chemistry
ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY; TRANSITION ELEMENT CHEMISTRY; BORON HYDRIDE CHEMISTRY; CARBORANE. Expert' research has centered on the chemistry of boron hydrides, carboranes, and their transition-metal and main group metal derivatives (metallaboranes and metallacarboranes). In recent years, he has been increasingly involved in…
Chemical Reaction Engineering
POROUS MATERIAL; REACTIONS IN POROUS SOLIDS. A major portion of Expert's research has been concerned with reactions of porous solids, the kinetics of which are largely controlled by pore diffusion. In particular, he has worked on coal/char combustion and desulfurization…
Chemical Extraction, diffusion, mass transfer and separation processes.
Expert has skills in the boundary between chemistry and chemical engineering which reflect his adaptation of laboratory chemistry to industrial practice. Expert's primary expertise is in diffusion processes, especially those for chemical separations. His research on membranes, which has produced…