Arvind Rajendran

Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept

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Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept
Email
arajendr@ualberta.ca

Overview

About

Arvind Rajendran is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. Prior to his current position, he was an associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Arvind completed his Ph.D. in 2004 with Prof. Marco Mazzotti from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. His research work has resulted in over 55 peer-reviewed publications including 4 invited review/opinion articles. He serves as an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering and as an Area Editor( Adsorption Processes) for Adsorption-The journal of the international adsorption society. His research interests include, fundamentals of chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, and gas separation by adsorption processes. In the recent years, his group has been focussed on CO2 capture. He currently serves as director of the International Adsorption Society and was the technical chair of the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, 2017.


Research

Keywords: Adsorption, Chromatography, CO2 capture, Process optimization, Supercritical fluids

Courses

CME 265 - Process Analysis

Basic process principles; material and energy balances, transient processes, introduction to computer-aided balance calculations. Prerequisites: ENCMP 100, MATH 102 and CHEM 105. Corequisites: CH E 243 and MATH 209 or equivalent. Credit may not be obtained in this course if previous credit has been obtained for CH E 265.


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