This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

Faculty and Research Interests

Morris D. Argyle, Assistant Professor, PhD University of California-Berkeley. Heterogeneous catalysis, metal oxide catalysts, light alkane functionalization.

David A. Bell, Associate Professor, PhD Colorado State University. Process design, environmental applications of chemical engineering, explosives technology, surface science and vacuum technology.

H. Gordon Harris, Professor, PhD University of California, Berkeley. Coalbed methane, enhanced oil recovery, oil shale, tar sands and other fossil derived synfuels, process simulation and design, process development, and extractive metallurgy.

Norman R. Morrow, Professor, PhD University of Leeds. Hydrocarbon recovery, wettability and oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition and waterflooding, crude oil/brine/rock interactions, surface chemistry of adsorption and wetting, capillarity, low permeability gas sands, multiphase flow in porous media.

Maciej (Mac) Radosz, Professor and Department Head, PhD. Cracow University of Technology, Macromolecular phase equilibria, crystallization and melting of polymers in supercritical fluids, equations of state, fouling, separations.

Mrityunjai P. Sharma, Professor, PhD Washington State University. Air pollution control technologies, particulate emissions control, supercritical fluids, produced water and sludge treatment, soil and groundwater remediation, industrial ecology, oil and gas production, thermal and enhanced oil recovery, drilling hydraulics, multiphase flows in porous media, and pipelines.

Youqing Shen, Assistant Professor, BS, D.Sc. polymer science, Zhejiang University, PhD. chemical engineering, McMaster University, Canada, polymer reaction engineering, polymer synthesis and applications, living polymerization techniques, biomaterials, targeted drug release.

Brian F. Towler, Associate Professor, PhD University of Queensland. Reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, natural gas processing, petroleum trapping mechanisms.

Emeritus Faculty:

Chang-Yul Cha, Professor, PhD University of California, Davis. Application of microwave energy for flue gas cleanup, solid waste recycling, wet oxidation and wet calcination of trona, oil shale and tar sands processing, coal utilization.

Henry W. Haynes, Jr., Professor, PhD University of Colorado. Heterogeneous reaction kinetics, applied thermodynamics, ion permeable membranes, solution mining and processing of trona, synthetic fuels from coal, fuel processing for fuel cells.

Adjunct Faculty:

John Ackerman, Adjunct Professor, PhD Brown University. Thin film deposition technologies, deposition of multilayer dielectric films for electrical and optical applications, modeling of CVD and ALE depositions, peritectic synthesis of materials from the gas phase.

Geoff Mason, Adjunct Professor. Loughborough University of technology, PhD University of Bristol. Capillarity and pore structure, wettability, oil recovery.

Koichi Takamura, Adjunct Professor, BASF Corp., Charlotte, NC, PhD McGill University. Surface and colloid chemistry, wetting, recovery of bitumen from tar sands, oil recovery, asphalt paving, papermaking, adhesives.