Former Students

Sharon McGee
MS. University of Arkansas, 1988
Thesis: Determination of Mass Transfer Coefficients and System Modeling for Liquid-liquid Extraction of Ethanol from a Fermentation Broth
Division Vice President Performance Chemicals, Albemarle Chemical, Baton Rouge, LA

Dwight Cartmel
MS., 1997
Thesis: Investigation of Local Scale Phenomina in Vapor Liquid Contactors Using X-Ray Tomography
Staff Engineer, Cytec Industries, Charlotte, NC

Carolyn Schmit
Ph.D., 2001
Thesis: Evaluation of X-ray Imaging to Invesigate Hydraulic Performance of Vapor-liquid Contractors
Research Engineer , BP, Naperville, IN

Jianjun Peng
Ph.D., 2002
Thesis: Modeling and Control of Packed Reactive Distillation Columns
Development Engineer, Aspen Technology, Cambridge, MA

John Schell
Ph.D., 2002
Thesis: Modeling and Control of Reactive Distillation for Alkylation Reactions
Patent Reviewer , Austin, TX

Sebastien Lextrait
Ph.D., 2003
Thesis: Advanced Reactive Distillation Column Model Development
Process Control Engineer, Pavilion Technologies, Belgium

Travis Reine
Ph.D., 2004
Thesis: Olefin / Paraffin Separation by Reactive Absorption
Process Engineer, ExxonMobil Chemicals, Baton Rouge, La.

Lina Rueda
Ph.D., 2005
Thesis: Novel Process Control for a Highly Non-ideal Distillation
Process Control Engineer, Shell Global Solutions, Houston, Texas

Christian Green
Ph.D., 2006
Thesis: Hydraulic Characterization of Structured Packing via X-ray Computed Tomography
Refinery Supervisor, Phillips 66, Ponca City, Oklahoma

Bob Tsai
Ph.D., 2010
Thesis: Influence of Liquid Properties on Effective Mass Transfer Area of Structured Packing
Research Engineer, UOP, Chicago, Illinois

Ryan Morrison
Ph.D., 2010
Thesis: Olefin Production via Reactive Distillation Based Olefin Metathesis
Research Engineer, Evonik-Degussa, Mobile, Alabama

Scott Owens
Ph.D., 2010
Thesis: Advanced Analysis of Structured Packing via Computational Fluid Dynmaic Simulation
Research Engineer, Eastman Chemical, Kingspor, Tennessee