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Area of Specialization:

Catalysis and catalytic materials. Development of environmentally benign technologies and processes. N2O, VOC and NOx emission control technologies. Surfactant/supercritical fluid cleaning of substrates.

B.Ch.E. Chemical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology (1990)

M.S. Chemical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology (1992)

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering The University of South Carolina (1997)

Kenneth Roberts joined the department in 1997, and was recognized as Teacher of the Year in Chemical Engineering in his first year with the department. He also received the 1998 American Society for Engineering Education/MIND New Faculty Award.

Principal Publications of Last Five Years:

Roberts, K.L., Rousseau, R.W., and Teja, A.S., "Solubility of Long-Chain n-Alkanes in Heptane between 280 and 350 K," Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, vol. 39, pp. 793-795 (1994).

Roberts, K.L. and Markel, E.J., "Generation of Mo2N Nanoparticles from Topotactic Mo2N Crystallites," Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 98, pp. 4083-4086 (1994).

Markel, E.J., Roberts, K.L., and Burdick, S.E., "Synthesis and Characterization of Porous g-Mo2N Macrocrystals," AIChE 1994 Spring National Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Roberts, K.L. and Markel, E.J., "High-Temperature Synthesis of Molybdenum Nitride Nanoparticles," AIChE 1994 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Amiridis, M.D., Roberts, K.L., and Pereira, C.J., "Kinetic Studies of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO by Hydrocarbons over Supported Platinum Catalysts," AIChE 1995 Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL.

Roberts, K.L. and Amiridis, M.D., "A Kinetic Investigation of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx by Propylene over Supported Pt Catalysts," AIChE 1996 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Amiridis, M.D., Roberts, K.L., and Pereira, C., "Kinetic Studies of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO by Propylene over a Zeolite Supported Pt Catalyst," Applied Catalysis, B, Environmental, vol. 14, pp. 203-209 (1997).

Roberts, K.L. and Amiridis, M.D., "Kinetic Investigation of the SelectiveCatalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide with Propylene over Pt/Al2O3," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 36, pp. 3528-3532 (1997).

Amiridis, M.D., Captain, D.K., Roberts, K.L. and Dumesic, J.A.,"Kinetic and In-situ FTIR Studies of the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO by Propylene over Supported Pt Catalysts," Preprints of the American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, vol. 42, pp. 851-854, (1997).

Captain, D.K., Roberts, K.L., and Amiridis, M.D., "The Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide by Propylene over Pt/SiO2," Catalysis Today, vol. 42, pp. 93-100 (1998).

Roberts, K.L., Sharmin, S., Watson, M.A., Howell, R.M., Parker, T.J., Crowell, A.M., Ryan, D.L., and Gause, T.R., "The Effect of Transition Metal-Based Catalyst Parameters on the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx and N2O by Propylene," AIChE National Meeting, November 18, 1998, Miami Beach, FL.

Roberts, K.L. and Markel, E.J., "The Hydrodesulfurization of Thiophene over Unsupported Mo2N Powders, Macrocrystals and Nanoparticles," 1998 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 2, 1998, Boston, MA.