Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
Prof. Mark B. Shiflett obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at North
Carolina State University (1989) and both his M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in
Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware under the direction of
Prof. Henry C. Foley. He is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor of
Engineering at the University of Kansas in the Department of Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering and is associated with the Center for Environmentally
Beneficial Catalysis. He is an inventor on 44 U.S. Patents and has published over 90
papers. He worked for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, at the
Experimental Station for 28 years on a variety of challenging projects including the
development of non-ozone depleting refrigerants, a thermal plasma reactor, nanoporous carbon membranes, hydrogen storage materials, a next-generation TiO 2
process, new applications for ionic liquids, and novel gas separation processes. His
research interests include ionic liquids, green chemistry and engineering, energy
efficient chemical processes, product design, desalination, thermodynamics, kinetics, and reaction engineering.
Contributors
Aida R. Abouelela Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College
London, London, UK
Daniel W. Armstrong Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Leslie Brown AECS-QuikPrep Ltd., London, UK
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About the Editor
Prof. Mark B. Shiflett obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at North
Carolina State University (1989) and both his M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in
Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware under the direction of
Prof. Henry C. Foley. He is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor of
Engineering at the University of Kansas in the Department of Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering and is associated with the Center for Environmentally
Beneficial Catalysis. He is an inventor on 44 U.S. Patents and has published over 90
papers. He worked for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, at the
Experimental Station for 28 years on a variety of challenging projects including the
development of non-ozone depleting refrigerants, a thermal plasma reactor, nanoporous carbon membranes, hydrogen storage materials, a next-generation TiO 2
process, new applications for ionic liquids, and novel gas separation processes. His
research interests include ionic liquids, green chemistry and engineering, energy
efficient chemical processes, product design, desalination, thermodynamics, kinetics, and reaction engineering.
Contributors
Aida R. Abouelela Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College
London, London, UK
Daniel W. Armstrong Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Leslie Brown AECS-QuikPrep Ltd., London, UK
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