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Professor Warren D. Seider
Chemical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6393
Phone: 215-898-7953
Fax: 215-573-2093
email: seider@seas.upenn.edu
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Process Systems Research Group
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The Process Systems Research Group is a collaboration of university professors,
graduate students, undergraduate assistants, and affilliated personell from
other universities and throughout the industry.
Doctoral Students
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Dr. Peter G. Ham - "The Transient Analysis of Integrated Chemical Processes,"
Ph.D. Dissertation, December, 1970.
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Dr. Sezer Soylemez - "Computer Generated FORTRAN Programs to Prepare Material
and Energy Balances for Process Units," Ph.D. Dissertation, August, 1971.
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Dr. Jeffrey Kulick - "A Generalized Interactive Graphics System," Ph.D.
Dissertation, December, 1972.
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Dr. Rajeev Gautam - "Calculations of Chemical and Phase Equilibrium" Ph.D.
Dissertation, August, 1979.
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Dr. Bradley A. Ross - "Simulation of Three-Phase Distillation Towers," Ph.D.
Dissertation, November, 1979.
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Dr. George J. Prokopakis - "Azeotropic Distillation Towers: Steady-State and
Dynamic Simulation," May, 1982.
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Dr. Charles W. White, III - "Integration of Stiff Differential Equations in
Chemical Reactor Modelling," October, 1983.
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Dr. Joseph W. Kovach, III - "Heterogeneous Azeotropic Distillation - An
Experimental and Theoretical Study," December, 1986.
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Dr. Tulio R. Colmenares - "Design of Heat and Power Recovery Systems for Energy
Conservation in Chemical Plants," Ph.D. Dissertation, 1988.
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Dr. Miriam L. Cygnarowicz - "Design, Optimization, and Control of Supercritical
Extraction Processes," PhD Dissertation, 1989.
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Dr. David D. Brengel - "Design for the Controllability and Operability of
Chemical Processes," PhD Dissertation, 1990.
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Dr. Loretta G. Koster - "A Cybernetic Model of Bacterial Chemotactic Response
to Nutrient Limitation," PhD Dissertation, 1991.
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Dr. Soemantri Widagdo - "Dynamic Analysis of Heterogeneous Azeotropic
Distillation," PhD Dissertation, 1991.
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Dr. Amy C. Sun - "Global Optimization Using the Newton Homotopy-continuation
Method with Application to Phase Equilibria," PhD Dissertation, 1993.
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Dr. Evangelia A. Gazi - "Verification of Controllers for Incompletely-known
Chemical Plants," PhD Dissertation, 1995.
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Dr. Roberto Irizarry-Rivera - "Modeling, Optimization, and Control of the
Bridgman and Czochralski Crystallization Processes," PhD Dissertation, 1995.
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Dr. Leighton B. Wilson - "Optimal Design of Chemical Processes at Open-loop
Unstable Steady States," PhD Dissertation, 1996.
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Dr. James R.
Phimister
- "Semicontinuous Distillation," PhD Dissertation, 2000.
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Dr. Joshua M.
Kanter
- "Model-based Control of Nonlinear Processes," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2001.
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Dr. Angel
Caballero - "Projection Algorithm for the Finite-element Simulation of
Fluid Flows at High Levels of Convection," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2002.
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Dr. Anjana Meel - "Dynamic Risk Assessment of Inherently Safer Chemical Processes: An Accident
Precursor Approach," PhD Dissertation, 2007.
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Dr. Jianguo Dai - "Lattice Kinetic Monte-Carlo Modeling and Simulation of Atomic Aggregation
in Crystals," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007.
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Dr. Thomas
A. Adams II - "Semicontinuous Processes with Chemical Reaction," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2008.
Masters Students
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Mr. Hajime Komaki - "Natural Gasoline Plant Design Optimization Using a
Computer-Aided Design Program," Master's Thesis, August, 1969.
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Mr. Daniel Poznanovic - "Methods for the Design and Implementation of a
Physical Property Data Base," Master's Thesis, December, 1969.
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Mr. Thomas Johnson - "A Display Programming Language for 3-Dimensional Computer
Graphics Instruction," Master's Thesis, December, 1970.
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Mr. David Utman - "Word-Clumping Method," Master's Thesis, June, 1971.
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Mr. James M. Neville - "Simulation of the CO2-Acceptor Process for Coal
Gasification," M.S. Thesis, May, 1978.
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Dr. Perla B. Balbuena - "Non-classical Equation of State for Multicomponent
Phase Equilibrium," MS Thesis, December, 1983.
Undergraduate Assistants
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Murtaza Ali - 1994-1995
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Scott Winters - 1995-1997
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Diane M. Miller - 1996-1997
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Michael DiTillio - 1997-1998
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Christopher S. Tanzi - 1998-1999
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Robert C. Chang - 1999-2000
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Daniel N. Goldberg - 2000-2001
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Maizatul Dalina Muhamad Zain - 2000-2001
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Matthew J. Fucci - 2001-2002
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Robyn B. Nathanson - 2002-2003
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Eric Strang - 2003-2004
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Arthur Chan - 2004-2005
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Rich Baliban - 2005
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Joshua H. Levin - 2006
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Larry Dooling - 2007
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Thomas Dursch - 2008
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