Chemical Engineering Research Group has Papers Published

August 8, 2008

Two PhD graduate students in the research group of Professor Judy Wornat, Shiju Thomas (graduated in May 2008) and Nimesh Poddar, have had papers accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32 (2008). These papers were presented orally at the Thirty-Second International Combustion Symposium, held in Montreal, Quebec, in August 2008. Unlike most conferences, the International Combustion Symposium requires submission of full-length papers at least eight months prior to the conference, and acceptance rates for oral presentation and publication in the Proceedings historically are well below 50 percent. In addition, only a majority of these papers are usually written by graduate students, which makes the selection more competitive.

The first paper entitled, "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Co-Pyrolysis of Catechol and 1,3-Butadiene” was authored by Shiju Thomas and M.J. Wornat. The second paper entitled, "Interactions of NiO Particles with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Acetylene Generated from the Pyrolysis of a Model Fuel" was authored by Nimesh Poddar, Shiju Thomas, Franz S. Ehrenhauser and M.J. Wornat. Poddar also earned some travel awards from the Combustion Institute to attend the conference.

Article by Melanie McCandless, LSU Gordon A. & Mary Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, 225-578-3242, mmonce@lsu.edu