Design of non-ideal reactors for homogeneous reactions.

Principles and equipment design of simultaneous heat and mass transfer; humidification, drying, crystallization, sorption, and membrane separation technologies; emerging separation process technologies

Particle characterization; particle dynamics; unit operations involving particulate solids; materials handling; mechanical separations for solid-fluid systems

Mass and energy balance in biological systems; kinetics of bioprocesses; heat and mass transfer applications to bioreactor design and downstream processes