Research Team
Dr. Joe Thompson - Engineering Support Scientist.

Randy Magilinao - PhD student. Currently working on hydro-thermal conversion of crude glycerol from biosiesel production for primary alcohols.

     Former Grad Students
Arvinder P. Singh - MS. Thesis project was on continuous-flow reactive distillation system for biodiesel production via transesterification. Graduated in 2005.

Chunchang Tao - PhD. Dissertation project was on an Integrated Enzymatic Processing of HEA Vegetable Oils for Erucic Acid Isolation and Biodiesel Production: Process Investigation and A New Proposed Bi-Level Kinetic Model for Solvent-Free Vegetable Oil Hydrolysis by Water-Soluble Lipase. Graduated in 2006.

Naresh Pachauri - MS. Thesis project was on the performance of a bench-scale Reactive Distillation reactor for continuous biodiesel production. Graduated in 2008.