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Research &
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Dr.
Richard Davis
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 225 Engineering Building
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Research Assistants/Projects
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Leah Zak using laminar-liquid-jet absorber
Research
Assistants
- Chris Patullo
(2002) Ozonation of Polypropylene
- Brian Daniels
(2002) Energy Balance on Taconite Furnace
- Jaclyn Corradi
(2001/02) Coal Gasification
- Dzung Truong
(2001/02) Coal Gasification
- Jason Bjork
(1999) Direct Reduced Iron
- Daniel Palo
(1993) Desalination
Independent Research
- Matt Frost (2006) Short cut method for gas membrane analysis
- Mark Machacek (2004) Renewable Energy
- Linda Agola (2001) Algae Bioreactor
- Rocky Rybolt (2000) Ethanol Fermentation
- Brian Poganis (1994/95) Solubility of Carbon Dioxide in Blended Aqueous Alkanolamines.
- Joe Chavis (1994/95) New Calculation Procedure for Sizing Mulicomponent Distillation Columns.
Independent Study
- Brandon McCabe (2004) Green Engineering
- Clint Boylan (2003) Acoustical Engineering
- Dustin Hamari (2002/03) CFD
- Lisa Grube (2002) Green Engineering
- Craig Jerome (1993/94) Silicon Processing
- Spas Petkov, Jamie Hestekin (1993/94) Biochemical Engineering
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 Undergraduate
Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
- Mark Suchomel (2006) Model of Pot Grate Furnace
- Shawn Kalevig (2005) Adsorption of Fuel on Activated Carbon
- Mindy Ooi (2005) Cross Flow Membrane
Model
- Anupreet Parmar (2005) Optimzation
Algorithm
- Troy Heaton (2005) Gasification
- Mark Machcek (2005) Gasification
- Anupreet Parmar (2005) Optimization
- Libby Bol (2004) Renewable
Energy
- David Roland (2004) Renewable Energy
- Danial Schierschmidt (2003/04)
CFD Model of Preheat Zone
- Brian Daniels (2002/03) Taconite
Model Interface
- Dustin Hamari (2002/03) Oil Impacted
Water Remediation
- Peter Carlsen (2002/03) Kinetics
of Ozone Reaction with Fumaric Acid
- Garrick Shurts (2002/03/04) Parallel
Processing on Mac Cluster
- Brian Danials (2001) Taconite modeling
- Chris Patulo (2001) Ozone oxidation kinetics
- Erik Carlson
(1998/99) Liquid Phase Diffusion Coefficients
- Kevin Ace
(1997/98) Kinetics of Ozone Oxidation of Aqueous 2,7 Napthalene
Diol.
- Leah Zak
(1996/97) Kinetics of Ozone Oxidation of Aqueous 2,7 Napthalene
Diol.
- Cory Gross
(1996/97) Particle Mixing in Rotary Kilns.
- Paul Johnson
(1995/96) Diffusion of Ozone in Water.
- Spas Petkov
(1994/95) On-line Parameter Estimation During Fermentation.
- Lisa Welsh
(1993/94) Density of Aqueous Alkanolamine Blends.
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Mass
Transfer Laboratory
- Physico-chemical
Properties Measurement and Estimation
- Liquid
Density & Viscosity
- Liquid
Phase Diffusivity
- Gas/Liquid
Solubility
- Reaction
Kinetics
- Advanced
Oxidation
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Bioprocessing
Laboratory
- Fermentation
- Mixing
- Mass
Transfer
- Kinetics
- Downstream
Processing
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- Microbial
Cell Fermentor
- DO
- PH
- Temperature
Control
- Nutrient
Addition
- Sampling
- Semi-Batch
Ultrafiltration Unit
- UV/Vis Scanning
Spectrophotometer
- HPLC
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Modeling,
Simulation & Computation
- Coal Gasification
- MEDUSA Induration
model
- Pot grate model
- CFD
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Short
Courses & Workshops
- Modeling of Taconite
Induration
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FE/EIT
Exam Review
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