Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech

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College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012 (National Research Initiative program; Biomass program), Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration BIORESIDUE UTILIZATION AND MANAGEMENT Name: Jactone Arogo Ogejo Department: Biological Systems Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-6815 FAX: 540-231-3199 E-mail: arogo@vt.edu Specialty: Emission Source Characterization, Waste Treatment Process, Nutrient and Energy (Anaerobic Digestion) Recovery Processes Applications: Design and evaluation of agricultural waste treatment systems; biogas production from agro-based waste material; monitoring and quantifying gaseous and odor emissions from animal feeding operations; developing mitigation technologies for pollutants from agricultural sources; technology transfer (field scale technology demonstration); nitrogen and phosphorus recovery/removal systems Expertise: Animal and industrial waste management; mitigation of emissions from agricultural sources; modeling source emissions Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation BRIDGES see Construction Materials, Weyers BRIDGE DESIGN Prestressed Concrete, Reinforced Concrete, FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Name: Carin L. Roberts-Wollmann Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-2052 FAX: 540-231-7532 E-mail: wollmann@vt.edu Specialty: Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures, Behavior and Design with Emphasis on Bridges Expertise: Methods for improving bridge durability and reducing construction time, including RFP reinforcement for concrete, precast concrete bridge deck panels, continuity diaphragm behavior and design Examples of Funding Sources: Virginia Transportation Research Council, Federal Highway Administration, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology CAPACITY INVESTMENT DECISION see Investment, E. Bish CARBON SEQUESTATION see Mining, Karmis CATALYSIS Name: S. Ted Oyama Department: Chemical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-5309 FAX: 540-231-5022 E-mail: oyama@vt.edu Specialty: Environmental Catalysis and Materials Applications: Reduction of greenhouse emissions (CO2); activation of methane in membrane reactors; hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation of petroleum feedstocks; sulfurresistant hydrogenation catalysts; ozone decomposition; low- 19
College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012 temperature VOC combustion Expertise: Catalyst design and synthesis; catalyst characterization and testing; new materials preparation; transition metal carbides, nitrides, and oxides Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund, U.S. Department of Energy CATALYSIS Surface Science Name: David F. Cox Department: Chemical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-6829 FAX: 540-231-5022 E-mail: dfcox@vt.edu Specialty: Surface Science, Catalysis, Surface Chemistry, Computational Chemistry Applications: Selective oxidation; alkane dehydrogenation; hydroprocessing; crystal chemistry Expertise: Surface analysis and characterization with photon and electron-stimulated electron spectroscopies; low energy electron diffraction; mass spectrometry; ion scattering spectroscopy; scanning tunneling microscopy; density functional calculations Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation CERAMICS see Materials, Logan CERAMICS AND GLASSES see Microwave Processing of Materials, Folz CHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Information Technology Name: Y.A. Liu Department: Chemical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-7800 FAX: 540-231-5022 E-mail: design@vt.edu URL: www.design.che.vt.edu Specialty: Process System Engineering, Computer-Aided Process and Product Design, Polymerization Process Modeling, Pinch Technology and Process Integration, Molecular Simulation, Environmental Engineering Applications: Energy and water savings; solvent selections in drug manufacturing; industrial water reuse and wastewater minimization CHEMICAL ENGINEERING see also Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Y.A. Liu CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Name: Luke Achenie Department: Chemical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-4257 FAX: 540-231-5022 E-mail: achenie@vt.edu Specialty: Computational Modeling Expertise: Process design; product design; optimization; uncertainty analysis; bioinformatics Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Energy 20
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