Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin go to home page university of texas at austin college of engineering U T direct
R. Bruce Eldridge, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Head of the Separations Research Program and Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering


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Office: CPE 4.408 Mailing Address:
Phone: (512) 232-1407, 471-7067 The University of Texas at Austin
Fax: 512-471-7060 Department of Chemical Engineering
Email: rbeldr@che.utexas.edu 1 University Station C0400
UT Mail: C0400 Austin, TX 78712-0231

 

Presentation made to prospective graduate students 2005

Educational Qualifications:
PhD., The University of Texas (1986)

Focus:
The development of separations technologies to meet current and future industrial needs

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Research:
The separations research effort can be divided into three groups: traditional technologies, novel technologies, and new applications of traditional technologies. Details of each area are given below.

  • Traditional separations technologies - The fundamental understanding of widely practiced mass transfer processes such as distillation and extraction can be expanded through the development of mechanistic models. Research in this area addresses both mass transfer and hydraulic aspects of these technologies.
  • Novel separations technologies- Traditional separations processes suffer from high energy consumption and high capital cost requirements. More selective separations technologies offer the potential to reduce these negative factors and produce more cost effective process designs.
  • New applications of traditional separations technologies- As frontier areas such as biotechnology and microelectronics fabrication mature, separations issues will become increasingly important. The research effort is targeted at meeting challenges presented in these rapidly expanding areas by evaluating mature technologies for new applications.

Selected Publications

  • T. A. Reine, W. M. Edwards, B. Wang, J. J. Lagowski, R. B. Eldridge, “Use of electrochemistry to predict ethylene absorption capacities of reactive absorption systems”, Ind. Eng. Chem Res., (43) pg. 6514, 2004.
  • S. Lextrait, T.F. Edgar, R.B Eldridge, "Steady-State Rate-Based Simulation of Packed Reactive Distillation: Spatial Discretization", Ind. Eng. Chem Res., (43) pg. 3855, 2004
  • C. Schmit, R.B Eldridge, "Investigation of X-Ray Imaging of Vapor-Liquid Contactors. 1. Studies Involving Stationary Objects and a Simple Flow System", Chem. Eng. Sci., (59) pg. 1255, 2004.
  • C.Schmit, J. Perkins, and R.B Eldridge, "Investigation of X-Ray Imaging of Vapor-Liquid Contactors. 2. Experiments and Simulations of Flows in an Air-Water Contactor", Chem. Eng. Sci., (59) pg. 1267, 2004.
  • J.J. Peng, T.F. Edgar, R.B. Eldridge, "Dynamic Rate-based and Equilibrium Models for a Packed Reactive Distillation Column", Chem. Eng. Sci., (58) pg. 2671, 2003.

 

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