Arvind Rajendran
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept
- arajendr@ualberta.ca
Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept
- arvind.rajendran@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-3912
- Address
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13-287 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Surface and interfacial science
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 90 peer-reviewed publications. He had served 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 recent years, his group has been focused on CO2 capture.
Research
Keywords: Adsorption, Chromatography, CO2 capture, Process optimization, Supercritical fluids
Courses
CH E 494 - Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
Treatment of selected chemical engineering special topics of current interest to staff and students.
CH E 694 - Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering
An advanced treatment of selected chemical engineering topics of current interest to staff and students.
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.