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Ross Taylor Kodak Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering |
Other Positions Held
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, February 7, 2001 – June 30, 2006
Editorial Advisory Board Member – Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (2005-2007)
Professor of Reactive Separations, Department of Chemical Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, August 1, 1999 – July 2004
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, Jan 1, 1999 – June 30, 2006
CACHE Trustee, February 1996 – December 2005
Visiting Professor, BP Engineering, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. May 1991 - July 1991
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, July 1989 - Present
Visiting Lecturer, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands. Aug. 1987 - July 1988
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, July 1984 - June 1989
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson College, July 1980 - June 1984
Research and Related Interests:
Modelling, analysis, and design of multicomponent separation processes
Multicomponent mass transport; Process Design; Thermodynamics; Software Design
Applications of computer algebra to engineering and cartography.
ChemSep
is a Software System for the Computer Simulation of Separation Processes developed by H.A. Kooijman and R. Taylor. The package has been distributed to more
than 60 universities around the world since 1992 by the CACHE Corporation.
As of 2006 we have begun to make ChemSep available to industrial members of The ChemSep Consortium, now numbering 8 organizations.
For more information and access to the freely downloadable version ChemSep-Lite please visit the ChemSep web site.
Books and Contributions to Books
Multicomponent Mass Transfer, R. Taylor and R. Krishna, Wiley Series in Chemical Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 1993
Distillation, M.F. Doherty, T.Z. Fidkowski, M.F. Malone, R. Taylor; Chapter 13 of Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, 8th Edition (D. Green Ed.) McGraw-Hill, New York, October 2007
The ChemSep Book, H.A. Kooijman and R. Taylor
Selected Journal Publications
A Nonequilibrium Stage Model of Multicomponent Separation Processes. I. Model Description and Method of Solution, R. Krishnamurthy and R. Taylor, A.I.Ch.E.J., 31, 449, 1985
Path Following Approaches to the Solution of Multicomponent Separation Process Problems. D.J. Vickery and R. Taylor, A.I.Ch.E.J., 32, 547, 1986
A Second Generation Nonequilibrium Model for Computer Simulation of Multicomponent Separation Processes, R. Taylor, H.A. Kooijman and J-S. Hung, Comput. Chem. Eng., 18, 205-217, 1994
Modeling Mass Transfer in Three-Phase Distillation, M. Lao and R. Taylor, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 33, 2367, 1994
A Dynamic Nonequilibrium Model of Tray Distillation Columns, H.A. Kooijman and R. Taylor, AIChEJ, 41, 1852-1863, 1995
Thermodynamics with Maple. I - Symbolic Computation, R. Taylor, Mathematics and Computation in Simulation, 45, 101-119, 1998
CFD Simulations of Sieve Tray Hydrodynamics, R. Krishna, J.M. van Baten, J. Ellenberger, A.Higler, and R. Taylor, Chem. Eng. Res. and Design, 77, 639-646, 1999
Modeling Reactive Distillation, R. Taylor, and R. Krishna, Chem. Eng. Sci., 55, 5183-5229, 2000
The surface pair activity coefficient equation: an exact alternative to conventional activity coefficient models, A. Klamt, G. Krooshof, and R. Taylor, AIChEJ, 48, 2332-2349, 2002
The Geometry of Separation Boundaries: I. Basic Theory and Numerical Support, A. Lucia and R. Taylor, AIChEJ, 52, 582-594, 2006
Energy Efficient Hybrid Separation Processes, A. Lucia, A. Amale and R. Taylor, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 45, 8319-8328, 2006
Distillation Pinch Points and More, A. Lucia, A. Amale and R. Taylor, Comput. Chem. Eng. 32, 1350-1372, 2008
Complete Publication List
Selected Honors and Awards:
1984 Marie Decker Teaching Excellence Award
1985 John W. Graham Faculty Research Award
1987 Omega Chi Epsilon Teacher of the Year Award (and 4 other later times)
1994 Best presentation in a Computing and Systems Technology Session at Canadian Chemical Engineering meeting in Calgary, Alberta.
1996 Merck, Sharp and Dohme Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico.
1998 Best Paper Award for a paper in Computers and Chemical Engineering in 1996, with A. Lucia and K. Achuthan
2004 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, Computing and Systems Technology Division, AIChE
2006 Invited plenary speaker: Distillation and Absorption 2006, London, England
2007 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Separations Technology, Separations Division, AIChE
Numerical and Enginering Computing Using Maple - Article from CACHE News, Fall 1998
Solution of PDEs via the Method of Lines - Another article from CACHE News, Fall 1999
I am addicted to the computer algebra system Maple and have
developed many worksheets in which Maple is used to solve
problems in chemical engineering and other disciplines.
I am also interested in numerical computing with Maple and
have coauthored the Maple share library code for
Newton and the DAE solver BESIRK. Send me an email if you
are interested in any of these files.
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