My field of research is CFD modeling in Chemical Reactor Engineering.
Articles
Catalyst Deactivation in 3D CFD Resolved Particle Simulations of Propane Dehydrogenation (with Anthony G. Dixon, Michiel Nijemeisland, and E. Hugh Stitt), Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (ACS Publications) (2010)
Catalyst deactivation by carbon deposition has been investigated for the dehydrogenation of propane to propene...
Hydrogen production in a zigzag and straight catalytic wall coated micro channel reactor by CFD modeling (with Ali Fazeli), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010)
Hydrogen production from steam reforming of methanol for fuel cell application was modeled in a...
An analysis of net energy production and feedstock availability for biobutanol and bioethanol (with Jeffrey Swana, Ying Yang, and Robert Thompson), Bioresource Technology (2010)
In this study, the potential of biobutanol was evaluated as an alternative to bioethanol which...
CFD Modeling of Methane Autothermal Reforming in a Catalytic Microreactor (with Ali Fazeli), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2008)
Producing hydrogen from natural gas for a mini scale fuel cell is a new challenge...
Presentations
Carbon Formation and Catalyst Deactivation 3D Simulations of Hydrogen-Producing Reactions in a Fixed-Bed Reactor (with Anthony G. Dixon, Michiel Nijemeisland, and Hugh Stitt), American Institute of Chemical Engineers(AIChE 2010 Annual Meeting) (2010)
To produce hydrogen as a clean fuel and a new source of energy, catalytic reactions...
Catalyst Deactivation in 3D CFD Resolved Particle Simulations of Propane Dehydrogenation (with Anthony G. Dixon, Michiel Nijemeisland, and Hugh Stitt), 21st International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (2010)
Catalyst deactivation by carbon deposition has been investigated for the catalytic propane dehydrogenation reaction using...
Comparison of co-current and counter-current heat integration of methanol to hydrogen wall coated catalytic micro channel reactor by CFD modeling (with Ali Fazeli, Shohreh Fatemi, Yadolah Mortazavi, and A. Khodadai), Chisa 2008 (2008)
Hydrogen production from steam reforming of methanol for fuel cell application was modeled in a...
Effect of microreactor geometry in performance of catalytic microreactor of hydrogen production by CFD modeling (with Ali Fazeli, Shohreh Fatemi, Yadolah Mortazavi, and A. Khodadai), Chisa (2008)
Hydrogen production from steam reforming of methanol for fuel cell application was modeled in a...