Research Areas

• Microfluidics and microreaction engineering
• Catalytic microchannel reactors
• Steady state/dynamic modeling and design of single/multi phase catalytic systems
• Reactor and catalyst development for hydrocarbon-to-synthesis gas conversions under microfluidic conditions
• Fluid dynamics and its applications
• Interfacial instabilities
• Spectral methods for numerical solutions of transport problems
• Catalyst synthesis and characterization
• Techniques for coating catalysts on microchannels
• Novel reactors for gas-to-liquids (GTL) and biomass-to-liquids (BTL) processes

Ongoing Projects