Philip A. Rice
Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Office 226 Hinds Hall
Phone 315-443-9444 E-mail parice@syr.edu
Philip A. Rice has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University since 1965. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1963, he spent one year as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Goettingen in Germany and two years working for Analytic Services, Inc., in Fairfax, VA. During a sabbatical year in 1984 - 1985, he was the Program Director of the Separations and Purifications Processes Program for the National Science Foundation.
Education
Ph.D., University
of Michigan, 1963
Chemical Engineering
M.S., University of Michigan, 1960
Chemical Engineering
B.S., University of Michigan, 1959
Chemical Engineering
Employment
NATO Post Doctoral
Fellow
University of Goettingen (Germany), 1962-1963
Chemical Engineer
Analytic Services, Inc., 1963-1965
Program Manager
National Science Foundation, 1984-1985
Service
Chair, Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 1985-1990,
1995-1998
Dr. Rice's teaching interests are in design methods for air pollution control, biochemical engineering, and chemical process design.
Courses
taught this year:
CEN 551 Biochemical Engineering
CEN 571 Process Engineering I
CEN 573 Principles and Design for Air Pollution Control
CEN 600 Computer-Aided Design of Chem and Env Processes
While at Syracuse, Dr Rice has done research in several areas including transport of substances in the human placenta, freeze-desalination processes for desalting sea water, modeling and characterization of bioreactors for waste water treatment and for production of pharmaceuticals, and heat transfer in systems with phase change. Dr. Rice's current projects are entitled: Simultaneous Production and Separation of Lactic Acid using a Fixed Film Bioreactor, Modeling and Parameter Estimation for Bioremediation/Vapor Extraction Processes, Application of Membrane Processes to Environmental Problems, and Heat Effects during the Adsorption and Desorption of Hydrogen and Methane on Activated Carbon.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Gonzalez-Reynoso, O., J.C. Heydweiller and P.A. Rice, "Estimation of
Parameters in Unstructured Models of Fermentation," Annual AIChE Meeting,
Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 1997.
P. Niyosem, V. Nesarikar, J.C. Heydweiller and P.A. Rice, "Optimization of
Fed-Batch Reactors," Annual AIChE Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1994.
M.N. Tackie and P.A. Rice, "Vacuum Stripping of Trichloroethylene Emulsions
from Water Sprays," Sep. Tech., 1, 205 (1991).
R. Chebi, P.A. Rice, and J.A. Schwarz, "Heat Dissipation in Microelectronic
Systems using Phase Change Materials with Natural Convection," Chem. Eng.
Comm., 69, 1 (1988).
P.A. Rice, R.E.L. Nesbitt, Jr., V. Cuenca, W. Zhang, G. Gordon, and T.J. Kim,
"The Effect of Ethanol on the Biochemistry of the Placenta," Am. J.
Obst. Gyn., 155, 207 (1986).