Lawrence L. Tavlarides
Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Office 334 Hinds Hall
Phone 315-443-1883 E-mail lltavlar@ecs.syr.edu
Professor
Tavlarides received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering at
the University of Pittsburgh in 1963, 1964 and 1968, respectively. He was a
post-doctoral fellow at the Technical University at Delft in 1968 - 1969. He was
in the faculty of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology from
1969 to 1981, where after, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department at
Syracuse University as chairman from 1981 - 1984 and Professor of Chemical
Engineering. He served as Associate Dean of the L.C. Smith College of
Engineering in 1995 - 1996.
Industrial experience includes three and one half years as a research engineer
at Gulf Research and Development Company (1964 - 1968) and consultation with 13
major corporations and the National Science Foundation and the Department of
Energy. Currently he serves as a consultant on the Department of Energy Tank
Focus Area Review Group to advise on technical issues and program development
related to the clean up of radioactive nuclear waste stored in tanks throughout
the D.O.E. complex.
Education
Ph.D., University
of Pittsburgh, 1968
A General Analysis of Multicomponent Mass Transfer
with Simultaneous Reversible
Chemical Reactions in Multiphase Systems
Chemical Engineering
M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1964
Chemical Engineering
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1963
Chemical Engineering
Employment
Service
Associate Dean,
L.C. Smith College of
Engineering and Computer Science,
1995-1996
Consultant,
Department of Energy Tank Focus Area Review Group
Professor Tavlarides' teaching interests include chemical reaction engineering, separation processes, mixing technology, environmental remediation processes and material and energy balances.
Courses
taught this year:
CEN 353 CEN Thermodynamics II
CEN 587 Chemical Reaction Engineering
CEN 786 Chemical Engineering Kinetics
Professor
Tavlarides' research activities include solution of environmental problems and
classical chemical engineering separations and reactor design problems.
Environmental problems under investigation are: (a) remediation of
soils/sediments contaminated with PCB's using supercritical desorption and
supercritical water oxidation, and (b) heavy metal removal from aqueous process
streams and groundwaters using specially synthesized inorganic chemically
active adsorbents. Classical separation problems studied are liquid-liquid
extraction, mixing, extractor design and control, and ultrasonic sensors for
characterization of liquid-liquid and gas-solid-liquid dispersions. Chemical
reaction studies in
progress are PCB oxidation kinetics in supercritical water. A fundamental
approach is applied to the solution of these problems.
Selected Publications and Presentations
G. Anitescu, L.L. Tavlarides, “Oxidation of Arochlor 1248 in
Supercritical Water: A Global
Kinetic Study,” I&EC Res., Vol. 40nxx, xxxx-xxxx (2000).
G. Anitescu, L.L. Tavlarides,” A Kinetic Study of Methanol Oxidation in Supercritical Water,” IEC Research, Vol. 38n6, 2231-2237 (1999).
P.D.M. Spelt, M.A. Norato, A.S. Sangani, L.L. Tavlarides, “Determination of Particle Size Distributions from Acoustic Wave Propagation,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 11ns, 1065-1080 (1999).
G. Anitescu, L.L. Tavlarides, “Solubility of Individual Polychloronated Biphenyl (PCB) Congeners in Supercritical Fluids: CO2, CO2/MeOH and CO2/n-C4H10,” J. Supercritical Fluids, Vol. 14, 197-211 (1999).
J.S. Lee, N.V. Deorkar, L.L. Tavlarides, “Adsorption of Copper Cyanide on Chemically Active Adsorbents,” I&EC Res., Vol. 37n7, 2812-2820 (1998).
N.V. Deorkar, L.L. Tavlarides, “An Adsorption Process for Metal Recovery from Acid Mine Wastes: The Berkeley Pit Problem,” Environmental Progress, Vol. 17n2, 120-125 (Summer, 1998).