Department of Chemical Engineering
150 W. University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901
Phone: (321) 674-8068
Fax: (321) 674-7565
Faculty & Staff
Paul
A. Jennings
Dr. Jennings' research activities
focus on removal of "priority
pollutants" from potable water and industrial wastewater. In general,
Dr. Jennings' interests extend to design and modeling of any process
for water or wastewater treatment.
Past research projects have
examined a variety of processes including activated carbon
adsorption for removal of humic color and the use of
reverse osmosis for removal of trace levels of organic compounds from
water. Recent thesis projects have examined the use of ion exchange
for recovery of phosphate
from acid wastewaters.
Dr. Jennings also participated
in a recent NASA project involving membrane separation of
gases in the Martian atmosphere.
María
E. Pozo de Fernández
Diffusion of gases in polymers/blends, dilation and gas sorption in gas/polymers
systems at elevated pressures and temperatures, thermodynamic behavior
of glassy polymers in the presence of compressed gases, experimental
studies of phase equilibria of mixtures at high pressures and temperatures,
supercritical fluids, modeling and correlation using equations of state,
sol-gel processing.
Dr. Tomadakis’ expertise is in the development of computer simulation algorithms for estimating transport and structural properties of porous and composite materials, and in the mathematical modeling of mass and energy transport and reaction in chemical systems. Current focus is mainly on fiber-reinforced composites and fibrous media used as preforms in Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI), modeling transport and reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC), and investigating experimentally
the separation of biogas through pressure-swing adsorption in molecular sieves.
Jonathan
E. Whitlow
Dr. Whitlow's research activities to date have focused on the application
of knowledge-based expert systems to process control. Work performed
has included the development of software for the implementation of process
modeling and control. In addition, other research has been performed
on multivariable controller tuning and methods for improving the performance
of PID controllers.
James
R. Brenner
Dr. Brenner's research activities focus on developing hydrogen storage
materials capable of storing greater than 5% hydrogen by weight, converting
the stored hydrogen into energy using more robust and longer-lasting
fuel cells, and developing molecularly imprinted polymers for chromatographic
separations of specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals, particularly
chiral molecules.
Jonathan
E. Whitlow
