Supervisor: Michael Fowler, Chemical Engineering
Grad Students: Please join Professor Abukhdeir in the Staff & Faculty Lounge for some coffee/tea*, cookies and conversation.
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Supervisors: Aiping Yu, Chemical Engineering and Michael Fowler, Chemical Engineering
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a useful technique for studying electronic and structural properties of materials. When these measurements are performed in-situ, it is valuable to identify the reactive species and monitor the reaction kinetics. This could significantly improve our understanding of material property and advance the rational design of material with improved performance.
Model based multi-parametric optimization provides a complete map of solutions of an optimization problem as a function of, unknown but bounded, parameters in the model, in a computationally efficient manner, without exhaustively enumerating the entire parameter space. In a Model-based Predictive Control (MPC) framework, multi-parametric optimization can be used to obtain the governing control laws – the optimal control variables as an explicit function of the state variables.
Interested in learning more about the fascinating research that Waterloo's chemical engineering graduate students are conducting? Now is your chance!
Join us at the Master's Research Colloquium, where master's students will present their research throughout the day.
POSTER SESSION: 9:15-10:15 am in the 1st and 3rd floor atriums
PRESENTATIONS:
Session 1
Group A, Process Systems Engineering: E6 2024 10:30-11:30 am
Group B, Biochemical & Biomedical Engineering: E6 2022 10:30-11:15 am
Abstract: Ingo Krossing steers a synthetic inorganic / organometallic chemistry group that bridges to computational, physical, materials and electrochemistry. His core expertise starts with weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) and was extended over the years to basic and applied Ionic Systems, i.e. compounds and materials (systems) in which ions determine their properties. The Ionic Systems under investigation range from very basic reactive cation salts,[1-5] to more applied systems like electrolytes for batteries and battery materials. To investigate the electrochemical relations between such Ionic Systems, solvent independent unified redox and acidity scales – applicable to all phases – were developed.[6]
Abstract:
For 30 years the undergraduate laboratory in the Chemical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University has employed a variety of pedagogies. In this talk we will explore our transition to student-led open-ended projects in our senior laboratory course. Furthermore, we will focus on implementing self-directed learning within this construct.
Enhancing Polyglycolic Acid Production in E.coli
Abstract
The simulation of flows using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has advanced considerably in recent decades and is now an essential tool across industries ranging from aerospace design to process engineering. Although CFD is relatively mature for single-phase flows, multiphase flows (such as particle-laden flows) and multiphysics flows (such as those including microwaves or ultrasound) remain significantly more challenging to simulate, in part due to their intrinsic multiscale nature and conflicting numerical need.
In the recent years, high-order methods have gained considerable momentum in aeronautics, in part due to their significantly lower dispersion and dissipation, but also for their higher arithmetic intensity (FLOPS-to-byte ratio) which suits current hardware capabilities. However, these methods remain seldomly used in chemical-engineering applications, in part due to their multiphase and multiphysics nature.