Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Air and Water Pollution Control (water recycle in paperboard mills, submerged packed bed bioreactor for wastewater treatment)
  • Separation Processes (gas absorption, membrane filtration, adsorption, distillation)
  • Alternative Energy (biodiesel from crude tall oil, evaporative cooling)
  • Modeling, Simulation and Design
  • Transport Phenomena (moisture sorption and diffusion in paper, approximations for describing heat and mass transfer)
  • Reaction Engineering (autohydrolysis of wood)

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Organizational Affiliations

Department of Chemical Engineering, Academic Departments and Divisions, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Education

Chemical Engineering
BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Chemical Engineering
1987, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Chemical Engineering
1985, MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy